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* [[The Character Died with Him]]: Martine Burden's actress Debra Ritz Mason died in 2006 at the age of 55.
* [[Killer App]]: Until [[Myst]] came along, this game often came bundled with CD-ROM drives.▼
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* [[Keep Circulating the Tapes]]: Good luck trying to find a physical copy of ''Uncle Henry's Playhouse''. Only twenty-seven copies were sold in the US. Worldwide sales capped at '''176 copies'''. Yes, those numbers are right. And no, it hasn't been re-released.
▲* [[Killer App]]:
* [[Technology Marches On]]:
** The Microscope puzzle in ''The 7th Guest'' pits the player against an AI in a game of Ataxx. The AI performs a brief search tree for its most optimal move, waits for a set delay, and picks the best move it finds. Processors have become at least fifty times faster ''with a single core'' since 1993; the Ataxx AI can now think so far ahead in the same amount of delay that defeating the AI is nigh-impossible. But this was only one minigame in one relatively minor room of the house—and it didn't deliver a cutscene reward for winning—so excising it for the tablet releases wasn't that big of a deal.
** ''The 11th Hour'' features several puzzles that lock players in a "duel with Stauf". One such "duel" is the final puzzle of the game, which is essentially a game of Pente. To access the game's multiple endings, players have to beat the final puzzle multiple times—and each successive playthrough gives the AI a bigger advantage in that puzzle. ''The 11th Hour'' couldn't be re-released until the developers found a way to limit the AI's advantage over human players.
* [[Vaporware]]: This is the fate of both the 3DO port of ''The 11th Hour'' and ''The 11th Hour'''s planned sequel ''The Collector''.
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