Their differences helped create a sound that captivated the world, but “just like Trilobyte, their differences eventually pulled them apart,” explains Beeck. “Graeme and Rob, just like Lennon and McCartney, were vastly different individuals who contributed to the company’s success and eventual breakdown.” John Lennon was a street kid with a hard edge, and Paul McCartney wrote love songs. “I see a lot of parallels to the Beatles in the story of Trilobyte,” explains a philosophical Kellyn Beeck, former Trilobyte chief operating officer.
The wheels of history always tell a similar tale: Flush with overnight success, how would a company like Trilobyte ever manage to overcome the sophomore slump, which in many cases, turns into the kiss of death? “After The 7th Guest came out, they were absolutely golden, right up there with id Software, maker of Doom.” But in retrospect, perhaps they were just gold plated. “Of all the developers from the early '90s, Trilobyte had the greatest potential,” explains former Virgin Interactive CFO Keith Greer. Thanks to the game’s unheard-of success, Devine and Landeros were crowned the Ben and Jerry of the interactive industry poster-boys for mastering what some deemed the impossible task of bringing The 7th Guest to life.
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To this date, it is one of only a handful of PC games to sell upwards of two million copies. The stars aligned, and The 7th Guest was an unmitigated success. But more importantly, it was one of the first CD-ROM games - Devine’s precocious data-port epiphany on the streets of London had paid off. They would cofound a company that would produce a product Bill Gates lauded as “the future of multimedia.” The company was Trilobyte, and the game was 1993’s The 7th Guest, a gothic-horror tale set inside a 22-room mansion, with enigmatic puzzles, stunning 3D visuals, and dazzling full-motion video. It changed his life.īill Gates lauded Trilobyte’s The 7th Guest as the “future of multimedia.”Ī half-decade later, forces of nature would bring Landeros and Devine together. That is, until the fateful day when he bought a Commodore 64 in the mid '80s. A gifted artist, Landeros parlayed his talents into carving images of wildlife into fossil ivory. Self-described as having “sedentary” tastes, Landeros had weathered the '60s in Berkeley, Calif., living in communes and drawing raunchy underground cartoons. Later, he worked out of novelist Joan Collins’ former bedroom in downtown London, programming for Activision.Īcross the pond in the mid-'80s, Rob Landeros, a contemplative man 17 years Devine’s senior, was a Luddite, preferring to hold a paintbrush or pencil than to tap away on a keyboard. Born and raised in Scotland, Devine started programming at nine, and by 16 he was cutting class to program the racing game Pole Position for Atari. But those who knew the then 16-year-old Graeme Devine weren’t surprised at his penchant for new technology. “The shop owner was just aghast that these two sixteen-year-old kids were buying this expensive piece of equipment,” he says. Even a decade later, he fondly recalls the day in the mid-‘80s when he and his friend Andrew Glasser strolled through the bustling streets of London, walked into an electronics store, and bought one of the first CD players for music.
“The first CD player had this big thing on the back called ‘Data Port.’ It was a dead giveaway about the capabilities of a CD,” recalls Graeme Devine, a long-haired lanky 33-year-old with a slight Scottish accent, who more often than not wears T-shirts bearing an illustration of cartoon character Scooby Doo. I think the article is too good to let disappear into the abyss. So here is the article in its entirety as seen on the Wayback machine.
It’s 404ing on me when I try to go back and read it all. GameSpot seems to have taken down this article, which I posted about last year. Crazy to see how a company that created a title as successful as The 7th Guest could fall so hard and so fast.
Tidbits like these really give you a glimpse into the fascinating world that spins on behind the scenes. Later it was learned that Nintendo bought the rights solely to prevent its archrival, Sega, from releasing the game on Sega CD.” Nintendo decided to pay $1 million for the exclusive console CD-ROM rights to, even though it didn’t have a CD-based console.
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“Trilobyte turned down offers to do games about the movies Congo and Blade Runner, and the television series The X-Files.
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