From 2010 to 2014 Richard Cobbett wrote Crapshoot, a column about rolling the dice to bring random obscure games back into the light. This time it's the piss-take of Myst they really called Pyst.

Pyst was created by comedian and Firesign Theatre co-founder Peter Bergman. The game is set on the same island as Myst but each scene has been vandalised by Myst's 4 million players and all the ...

The game can deliver some laughs for those who enjoy its brand of humor, though it occasionally shows its age (former-Soviet Russia jokes! Computer speeds measured in the low Megahertz range!).

Pyst was released by a company called Parroty Interactive in 1996, over three years after Myst was originally released, which speaks to just how long a shadow the original work cast over the ...