Does anyone remember that early 90's point and click dystopian sci-fi game Rise of the Dragon? You played a detective in a Blade Runner-esque city, and you had to find out what happened to the mayor's daughter. I had it for Sega CD but I'm pretty sure it was originally released on the Amiga. I would love to see it ported to gog if possible.

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I actually came across this on Abandonia a few days ago. Do realize we would get the DOS version, and that is often considered inferior to Amiga versions.

However, we do have Sierra/Activision here, so I'm not sure what's holding back a release. We could get both EGA and VGA versions here for 5.99. (unfortunately, I don't think Activision has allowed GOG to release any soundtracks) The game does seem like a good old game overall.

Yes yes, and Heart of China, Willy Beamish, Nova 9, Red Baron, A-10 Tank Killer etc. Dynamix made some quite good games for Sierra.

In these cases, no. These games which appeared first on VGA PCs, and later were ported to Amiga, were usually superior on PC. Potential problems with the Amiga ports:

- The colors were not as vibrant on the Amiga versions and there'd be more color banding and such, as the graphics were transformed from PC's VGA (256 color?) graphics to Amiga's basic 32 color OCS graphics.

- Amiga floppy disks had by default lower capacity than PC (880kB per disk on Amiga 500, which most Amiga gamers had; PC games were on 1.44MB disks as I recall), and didn't always offer the option to install on the hard drive, so playing the Amiga version would many times mean constantly swapping 8 floppy disks, while the PC version ran directly from the hard drive without any disk swapping, after the initial installation.

- While the Amiga version music and sound effects were superior to the basic Adlib/Soundblaster sounds of the PC version, usually the Roland MT-32 support in the PC versions was the very best one. In some cases even the Amiga version might have supported MT-32, like some Sierra adventure games I think.

Rise of the Dragon PC version: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hb6l6jUVaco

Amiga version (not that bad, but still inferior): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKpkkQH6ZT4

The difference in graphics, see e.g. the part in the intro "There ya go, baby" where the dealer hands out drugs to the lady. Especially in that scene you can clearly see how the colors had changed when ported to Amiga. The colors are much smoother on the PC version.

Well nice, then! We'll get the superior version.

As GOG has lots of Sierra games but no Dynamix games (which were usually published under Sierra label), I'm wondering if there is some legal trouble with bringing them?

Not sure though how much people would be willing to pay for them, considering that even the older Sierra adventures are sold in bundles, not separately. Should they sell e.g. Rise of the Dragon, Heart of China and possibly some other Dynamix games in a bundle?

EDIT: Wrong wrong wrong, we have some Dynamix games already! Betrayal at Krondor, The Incredible Machine and Red Baron, at least. So I guess there shouldn't be any legal trouble, but as said, are people willing to pay e.g. $6 just for Rise of the Dragon? Maybe if Heart of China was together with it?

At least they should be very easy to bring technically, I think quite many of them were even fully copy protection free by default, not even manual keyword checks and such (if I recall correctly).

It was actually a DOS game first (1990) and it got ported to Amiga a few months later (1991).

I tend to shout the virtues of the Amiga as much as possible, but this is one of the cases where there is very little difference, the Amiga version is a more or less straight DOS port. It is a good game, anyway.

(by the way, the main character was called "William 'Blade' Hunter".... :))

I do think, given how old it is and how GOG would only need to put it into DOSBox, at least two games for 5.99 is the right move. (unless GOG brings back the 3.99 price tag that was temporarily here :P) GOG does have Personal Nightmare for 5.99, and that's from 1989 but that seems like a bit too much (kind of makes me raise an eyebrow). Personal Nightmare + Waxworks for 5.99 would be much better, imo.

I would like to see some way to rip the Sega CD audio and insert it into the DOS version, making a talkie out of it. Admittedly, it's not the greatest voice over work but it has its charm.

Yeah I forgot about that the Personal Nightmare being that already...

I personally think bundling e.g. Rise of the Dragon, Heart of China and Willy Beamish together, and calling it "The Dynamix Adventure Bundle" would be fine. Not sure if it should be $5.99 or $9.99 at that point, though.

Those three are the Dynamix adventure games I am familiar with anyway, I'm unsure if they made any other remarkable adventure games. (BaK is a RPG, not adventure) Little visit to Mobygames would reveal that, I guess.

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As strange as it may sound, I'm a little uncomfortable with that name and bundle. GOG's naming convention doesn't usually use company names in their titles (can you find examples?), and people are more likely to remember a game's name rather than a company's name I think, so they'd search for "Rise of the Dragon" but not "Dynamix" I believe. Plus the themes seem totally different.

From what I've gathered, RotD+HoC for 5.99 might work. Willy Beamish could perhaps come for 5.99 even though 3.99 would be a better option. (I do like the 5.99/9.99 focus, but that does mean games are overpriced, of course; it doesn't always work well.)

Perhaps, just maybe, a bundle of Dr. Brain(s) + Willy Beamish could show up , since the content is more similar? I would hope that GOG would go for 5.99 with this, rather than 9.99 just because it's 3 games instead of 2. 6 dollars is more justifiable than 10 whole dollars, somehow. :P

I could live with that, most people probably wait for sales anyway.

As an adventure game though, I regard Willy Beamish about as high as RotD and HoC. The setting, target audience etc. are just different.

I think they are targeted to the same age bracket, but the content is not really similar. Dr. Brains is more clearly an edutainment title, Willy Beamish is a "true" adventure game. And both can be enjoyed by adults as well (and since many adults were teenagers back when Willy Beamish came out anyway...).

I think those games are made by different teams, though? If you are thinking of bundling adventure games for younger folks under the Sierra label, then there is of course also EcoQuest 1-2 (and Dr Brain has also a sequel). I enjoyed the first EcoQuest as an adventure game (and it has some great Roland MT-32 music too, naturally), even if it was not as gritty as Rise of the Dragon, or as funny as Space Quest 4 or Monkey Island 2.