{"id":13989,"date":"2025-07-17T10:05:25","date_gmt":"2025-07-17T17:05:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=13989"},"modified":"2025-07-17T16:22:29","modified_gmt":"2025-07-17T23:22:29","slug":"labyrinth-of-time-speedrun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=13989","title":{"rendered":"Labyrinth of Time Speedrun"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@Obscuritory\">The Obscuritory<\/a> has done a 12 minute speedrun of the classic obscure game &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Labyrinth_of_Time\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Labyrinth_of_Time\">The Labyrinth of Time<\/a>&#8220;. I loved Myst and saved up my money to buy this game &#8211; only to find myself utterly lost as to what to do. It&#8217;s an obscure, but ultimately bad, game. The idea is interesting &#8211; an adventure that requires collecting items or changing the past to affect the future puzzles. It&#8217;s an idea that is probably ripe for a remake or a part 2 (that was hinted at at the ending of the game, but never written)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/L8R3D8KBNn8?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Back in the day, I actually contacted and talked with one of the programmers. He said that they were running out of storage space to fit the game on one CD-ROM, so they kept compressing and re-compressing the audio until it was barely acceptable quality. I believe his exact words were that &#8216;It was criminal&#8217; how much they compressed them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I remember that the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=hHPbISRtddA&amp;list=PLC8AA3798F9B99984\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=hHPbISRtddA&amp;list=PLC8AA3798F9B99984\">sound track was pretty good<\/a>. Ironically, it was mostly stock audio that could be licensed very cheaply. Some of my favorites were &#8216;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=T2gQkfcpHNk\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=T2gQkfcpHNk\">Intrigue<\/a>&#8216;, &#8216;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=FPHvwfR2-wg\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=FPHvwfR2-wg\">The Killing Ground<\/a>&#8216;, &#8216;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=wGef5kJ_82E\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=wGef5kJ_82E\">Pastoral colours<\/a>&#8216;, and many others. Fans on the playlist linked above seem to have identified all the songs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here&#8217;s a longer, slower playthrough for the curious:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/z1uUccmHSXE?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Obscuritory has done a 12 minute speedrun of the classic obscure game &#8220;The Labyrinth of Time&#8220;. I loved Myst and saved up my money to buy this game &#8211; only to find myself utterly lost as to what to do. It&#8217;s an obscure, but ultimately bad, game. The idea is interesting &#8211; an adventure that requires collecting items or changing the past to affect the future puzzles. It&#8217;s an idea that is probably ripe for a remake or a&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=13989\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[22,9,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artdesign","category-cool","category-music"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4WECr-3DD","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13989","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13989"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13989\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14625,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13989\/revisions\/14625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}