The 7th Guest

The 7th Guest, produced by Trilobyte and originally released by Virgin Games in 1993, is an interactive movie puzzle adventure game. It was one of the first computer video games to be released only on CD-ROM. The 7th Guest is a horror story told from the unfolding perspective of the player, as an amnesiac. The game received a great amount of press attention for making live action video clips a core part of its gameplay, for its unprecedented amount of pre-rendered 3D graphics, and for its adult content. In addition, the game was very successful, with over two million copies sold, and is widely-regarded as a killer app that accelerated the sales of CD-ROM drives. The 7th Guest has subsequently been re-released on the app store for various systems such as the Mac. Bill Gates called The 7th Guest "the new standard in interactive entertainment."

The game has since been ported in various formats to different systems such as iOS, with Trilobyte mentioning the potential for a third entry in the series.