 The release date was changed once more to August 3 , before it was finally released in stores on August 24 , 1995 , the same day that Microsoft 's operating system Windows 95 was released . Phantasmagoria was released first for Windows 95 , Windows 3 @.@ 1 and MS @-@ DOS , then for Macintosh computers in November 1995 . Sierra released a hint book at the same time as the game . Phantasmagoria was also ported to Sega Saturn and released on eight discs exclusively in Japan , where it was fully translated and dubbed into Japanese , and released in August 1997 by the Outrigger Corporation under the name Phantasm . In response to all the delays , Vince Broady , executive editor of the monthly publication Multimedia World , said Sierra may have been attempting to avoid mistakes from its release the previous year of Outpost , for which the company release a large amount of advertisements and reviews , but then over @-@ promoted and released before it was finished . Sierra spokeswoman Kathy Gillmore admitted that mistakes were made in marketing Outpost and Sierra had tried to fix them . The minimum system requirements were an IBM compatible 486 @-@ 25 , 8 megabytes of RAM , 5 megabytes hard disk space , SVGA ( 256 colors ) and a 2x CD @-@ ROM . It supported Sound Blaster @-@ compatible sound cards , and for MS @-@ DOS the game worked with a megahertz chip . It sold for as much as $ 80 in some stores , but typically sold for $ 69 @.@ 95 upon its first release . 
