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I get the feeling us Sega CD owners got the short end of the stick concerning animation quality of Time Gal, and there's a scene where a prehistoric monster takes a bite at her if you flub an action input, and she loses her panties and immediately covers up. I'm not sure if this is in the American version.
I'm also not sure how the home versions of Dragon's Lair fared compared to the arcade, other than the AVGN-worthy NES platformer.

Oh, awesome release! I'm very happy I didn't jump the gun on that one... Nice to be able to pick it up on Gog now :)

I have to confess that I am a sucker for FMV games so I bought this instantly. I installed it today and tried to launch it. Screen goes black for a fraction of a second and that was my game. Videos playing through my media player works fine. Running Win7 with a GTX960 (newest drivers). I am posting here because the game forum is still empty. Will also try to contact support on this but maybe someone experienced a similar issue and found a fix already?

Thank you GOG for bringing this here ... I guess ;)

Edit: I managed to get it to run. It seems it needs
this to run correct.

+1

A math student in London? Was he visiting? Students in Britain study either Maths or Mathematics, Math is an Americanism.

Attentive eye :)

Excellent excellent game. I got it for PS4 a few months back and love it. From the same people who made The Bunker FWIW.

But TLC at least let you play on your own pace and does not bother you with timed decisions.

I hope GOG is reading this and will be releasing said games! ;)

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how rare of a fmv game

Since nobody complained about this yet:

@GOG: Please stop using GIFs on your store pages! 9.8 mb for a 'simple' fly-by image?!?
People with low bandwidth (or who pay for their traffic) will not have fun with this!

Culprit: https://items.gog.com/late_shift/late_shift.gif :P

maybe the code to check what the user clicked on needs a very strong pc.

Regarding crazy specs for games: many (new) games seem to have ridiculous specs, when looking at the graphics of many games ( a lot seem to look like 16 bit amiga/pc games from the past) you often wonder: why were they able to do with less powerful machines in the 80s and create marvellous games. and today they need a top performance pc to run a game.

Anyway, i think the problem is the fact that just because extremely PC can be build the devs might tend to get 'lazy' on the development (unity and other game' creation kits')while in the good old days they had to get the most out the available technology.

The more powerful pc and other gaming systems become, the less effort is being taken to develop games that can be run by the majority, thats why the mobile games and the casual games ( often lower requirements) still sell quite well.

Almost every casual game can run on 2 or 3 ghz ( single core) while some or even all 16bit looking games that are released nowadays require a big quad core, preferably the latest mobo and graphics hardware.

Thats why i have so many casual games and niche games (like dozens of AGS games and >450 casual games (maybe even more)) cause these run perfect on my old i5 750 quad core 2.67 ghz and GTX 750 ti 2 GB, win 7 8 GB

Saw it on steam first.... and i wanted to get it... but....... even at sales i did'nt get it cause the price doesn't feel right 12.99 as a listprice i have 2 good HiddenObjectGames (HOG) for that money and more interaction and 3 to 5 hours play time ( if you dont use the hints, walkthroughs) per game, sometimes 6 euro games have 5 or 6 hours so that would be 10-12 hours playtime for 12 euros :D

9.99 would be a better listprice and 7.99 at sales cause its not much action/interaction ( i watched the walkthroughs)

On the other hand i would pay 12 euros for a full working Touché: The Adventures of the Fifth Musketeer i own the retail but have to fiddle around with scumm and other nasty options to get it run and i just want to play it without fiddling around.

It's true that many games are poorly optimized. But it is also true that the specs are pulled out of thin air; they really only serve to disclaim liability and few devs seem to care enough to actually go and find out what's the realistic minimum spec PC that can run the game at all, or smoothly.

In other words, many games run just fine on "low end" hardware even if the specs are ridiculous.

Yeah the lack of platform support is ridiculous.

With the same money, you can get a movie with deeper story and no silly meaningless choices to interrupt the show. And you can play it back on whatever.