Yes but... but they are very different kind of games. Willy Beamish is a well designed adventure games with clear objectives, Codename: Iceman... is not. One is comedic, the other one is not. One has icons, the other has text. One is a parody, the other tries to be serious. One is cartoon like, the other is not. Etc.

Strange how it is more expensive in your region. You'd think the opposite.

Never thought Codename would ever make it to GOG as, well, it's not exactly considered as one of Sierra's best games, but I'm really glad that it is here! Always been curious about it, even if it was a flawed one. Plus, that means there's still a big chance some of the other Sierra games (like already mentioned: the Conquest games, Manhunter series, Dr. Brain series, the Mixed-Up games, Ecoquest 1&2, Pepper's Adventures in Time, Shivers 1&2, Lighthouse, etc etc) will one day be released here as well. I said it before, and will say it again: keep them Sierra releases coming please! :-) Thanks GOG!

I disagree. We also need the Ultra 3D Minigolf and Lionel Train Town......


And speaking of Activision games with a espionage/military background, The Soldier Of Fortune Games would be a nice addition to GOG, but apparently they are another game caught in legal hell with who owns the rights in dispute.

Good Luck with Black Cauldron. That game has Disney IP and unless rights to the code reverted back to Disney, then it's gonna be a while till we see it again. Especially since Disney and Acttivision don't like coming to the table when it comes to IP ownership. BTW, I want it too since I heard it was good game and you should add in Arctic Fox\Steller 7\Nova 9 to the list. Hell if we could get the Sega CD console port too, that'd be awesome.

Is there something special about the Japanese version?

I want all the 3D Ultra Games. Tracking down copies of RC Racer Traxiss Edition and the Pool one is a pain in the butt. I wanna play the Pool one because it has unique pool table layouts not seen in other Pool Gaems.

Oh boy. The Japanese version of Police Quest 2 is ridiculous. They redrew most of the character art in the anime style. So Sonny and Keith have crazy Goku hair, and the chief looks like a super villan. Google it; it is so worth a look!

I think "supported" means they have tested the game on these OS' and are trying to fix problems that arise on them. It's a matter of spending their limited resources on OS' that are still kept "alive" by their producers – which XP isn't for years now.

I hope none of the XP users here are running it with any internet access – if so, you may be part of the growing global bot net problem. Anyone still running XP today should be aware of the risks and measures to reduce them.

If you run XP only because it's less resource hungry than later Windows versions, you may want to consider using one of the lightweight Linux distributions like Lubuntu. Since it's basically Ubuntu with a less demanding desktop and pre-installed software selection, GOG games that support Ubuntu should run as well on Lubuntu.

edit: ScummVM is part of (L)Ubuntus official software repositories.

Yeah, I'd say there's something special about it. The game had redrawn graphics to give it a more anime-like design, like the Japanese version of Zak McKracken.

That makes sense, you can't support games for decades, but if coded properly games can run on almost any windows as long as they don't use some windows dependent libraries that are different in most windows.

Desperados (the first game) runs on XP and win 7 64 bits, at least it ran on my XP and win7, thats the retail , no patches, so games can run if properly coded, and no 'exotic' libraries are called.

Gorky 17 one of my all time favorites is one of the worst optimised games regarding GPU, its almost impossible to get the original graphics with modern GPU, only seemed to work back then with voodoo cards, as soon as i got nvidia it was game over, now we hav to use software like dgVoodoo and that still doesnt solve the fact that 'layers' seem to slide over another resulting in a unplayable mess.

So sad cause the game was a very good game, seems they made another one , but that looked more like 3d and thats not the real Gorky, some games don't translate well to 3d or fpp, cause the original feeling of the game vansihes completely.

BTW the HD remake of "Gold Rush" (which does include the original as a bonus) will finally be coming to GOG, according to the game's makers.

Oh that's great news! I've always wanted the original to be a part of the catalog here. Thanks for the news! :)