One of the first
CD-ROM games
published that actually took advantage of the capacity of the format. Incredibly brilliant in its time. It was a
puzzle/
mystery game; you'd move through this large
mansion solving
puzzles and trying to unlock its secrets.
This
game is the result of a
combination of two things: A very large amount of storage (at the
time, a CD-ROM was a colossally huge medium. Most entire hard drives were around 100-200MB, CD-ROMs are 650MB), and not very much
CPU power. Transitions from one
area of the mansion to another were pre-rendered and stored on disc. This provided nice looking transitions, but also resulted in great limitation on where you could go.