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Cyan's puzzle game presented a deserted island as pre-rendered still images, with no combat, no enemies and no way to die. Published by Broderbund, it became the decade's best-selling computer game and a standing argument for buying a disc drive.
A quiet puzzle game with no combat outsold everything else on personal computers for most of a decade, which forced publishers to notice an audience beyond their assumptions. It also demonstrated what optical storage was actually good for, and its pre-rendered approach became a common way to imply three dimensions.
