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How 2001 PC Game Majestic Almost Transformed The Gaming Industry

retrododo.com How 2001 PC Game Majestic Almost Transformed The Gaming Industry

Gaming history is full of “what if?” moments, as so many games that seemed poised to transform the industry have flopped and faded into irrelevance within months of release. No…View Post

While the game is nearly forgotten today, its DNA can be seen all across the gaming industry, with many of its innovations now commonplace.

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Yeah, Majestic was incredibly interesting because it was an attempt to create an Alternate Reality Game (ARG) that was more than just a marketing campaign and could support itself financially. Its failure led to ARGs being abandoned as standalone games and ARGs mostly remained marketing which - ultimately - led to a slow, but inevitable decline of the ARG as a genre when the marketing money dried up.

I’ve been trying to figure out the name of this game for a long time. My roommate played this in college and he loved it. It was fun to watch him play and interact with it.

I had never heard of this game, pretty cool concept. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fv9t5zg3O_Y This is the video the article seems to use as a reference in most of its images.

I mostly heard that it was boring at the time. Which was unfortunate, the concept was cool.