**Possible Vague Storyline Spoiler**
Weird, my Sega CD copy of the game would hang at a certain point right after you save his frog from the crazy chef lady. I ended up buying the PC CD-ROM version and having to finish it that way.

I was not expecting Willy Beamish here. I never got to the ending, close maybe. I will try again I the future. It's a funny and light hearted adventure I recommend the point and click lovers. I remember most stuff makes sense.

Ok that sounds good. I'll get this game at some point (even though I have the floppy version and have finished it a long time ago...).

EDIT: Heck, for that price, why not already now? Buying...

Ok, now this is a cute game. I guess I will add the review later, but I got this as a computer version of the Simpsons. It has some good puzzles, it has a GREAT sense of place, and it has a charm that goes from of every pixel. The best, by far I think, of the three Jeff Tunnell adventures.

Just tried the game... and nice! As said before, you get an option to play either the floppy or CD-ROM version, and on top of that there is a third option to change the sound settings for the floppy version, meaning I can easily change it to Roland MT-32 (with the Munt emulator).

Seems pretty much a full package there, I have absolutely nothing to complain about this. :) I've never played the CD version so I am interested to see it (even if it doesn't have the better MT-32 music).

Wow! I'd go to the hospital everyday and get examined by her! (｡♥‿♥｡) ~♪

The DOS and SEGA CD versions look similar.

My favorite is actually the Amiga version. I find VGA graphics difficult nowadays, because the low resolution looks blocky and my brain seems not to smooth it out like when this stuff was new. Could be the CRT monitors of the time, or could be that I've gotten spoiled by 1080p.

Amiga was higher resolution than VGA, and had "half brightness", where the colors in the palette could be repeated at half brightness without taking a color slot. This allowed shadows without reducing the color depth.

Short version: The Amiga version IMO has aged a lot better than the DOS version. And on the topic of Sega CD, I'm not about playing this type of game without a mouse.

I'll probably buy this anyway though, to have a legal version on my GOG shelf. Though I did own the floppies at some point.

I didn't ever play amiga version but from what your saying I could see if having better graphics than the pc version. Sega cd was know for very high quality sound and good utilization of the cd space for extras. I could tell the opening music for the cd version on here the sound is anemic compared to the sega cd version I didn't hesitate to buy the game though as I'm not getting a sega cd again, its good so far, it was good back then. The better sound and possibly better graphics of sega cd do make difference though.

Game is very good, I instabuy it.

Oh man this is a fun game! Had it back in the day on an Amiga 500, along with Heart of China. The other two games from Dynamic I'd love to see are Stellar 7 and Nova 9. Both are excellent Battles one inspired tank shooters. Played the original on the Commodore 64 as well. =)

Flynn

Wow, I haven't played this game in at least 25 years. I'm glad to see it here now.

Wow.

I hate this game.

I mean, really, really hate it.

The stupid timed puzzles all over the place.

The nonsense with the bat and game over.

What, a dream is supposed to kill you?

And all the brutal ways a nine-year-old boy was murdered.

Which were kinda funny.

And kinda not.

Damn.

I really hated this game.

I'm glad it's here.

Because not everyone shares my hatred.

Good job Gog.

But I still hate this game.

:)

I think your mind is playing tricks with you. First of all, Amiga games in general, nor this game either, were not in higher resolution than DOS VGA games. For instance for this game (and many other games), the PC version is running in a VGA resolution at 256 colors, while the Amiga version is running in a similar resolution (320x200?) at 32 colors.

You can see the comparison with e.g. these two screenshots:

The Amiga version

The PC VGA version

Look at e.g. the teacher's desk or the floor, you see the PC VGA version has far more colors to work with, with more hues. I really don't see how the Amiga version could be considered to look better, and no, the Amiga version is not running in a higher resolution either.

Plus with the Amiga version you usually had to swap with lots of 880kB floppy disks to play the game, while the PC version could be completely installed on the hard drive by default, and played from there. So the Amiga version was more cumbersome to play. There may have been some trick to transfer the Amiga version also to the hard drive, but that was usually not supported officially, it was a third-party hack.

Usually where the Amiga versions of games are commended are music and sound effects. IMHO Amiga version sounds better than the PC Soundblaster version, but worse than the PC Roland MT-32 version (I put the comparison Youtube videos in my earlier message). Especially with this game, you can hear the lack of polyphony on the Amiga version, as it had only four sound channels, but the instruments themselves sound more believable than in the Soundblaster version.

https://www.gog.com/forum/general/release_the_adventures_of_willy_beamish_d4c2c/post37

And I forgot to mention that the frog's name is ....

.... HORNY ;P

Usually Amiga ports were better when there were not many people wanting to scratch their heads programming for those range of sound cards or VGA. Or when the games were originally programmed in there (some exceptions, as Another World). As a rule, Amiga ports are the best when the game was available in zx spectrum and amiga (again with some exceptions).

The sound and music were just a tracker. You really had to know how to make it sound good, and some times PC games adopted that approach too (pinball fantasies). Oh, I found a thread about that http://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?t=23101