> I still remember swapping out those CDs...

You reminded me that when the CD drive kicked out the disc for the first time and asked for the next, you knew that you had broken through and that some new shit was about to land.

Riven is why I got a CD drive (Plextor) that used caddys rather than a tray. I knew that I was going to be swapping discs fairly often and the caddy gave them more protection. Every time I went to a new island, it was a furious sorting of caddys to find the right one, then slam it into the drive to avoid wasting time out of the game.

5 CDs, of course. How perfect for the lore.

This game kickstarted my interest in computer graphics. Got a “making of” book and was fascinated by how they did the textures.

I bought the game twice, because the DVD version eliminates the disc swapping. (And slightly improved the image quality.)