So, for those players who aren’t used to playing graphic adventures, I recommend a walkthrough at hand and several saved files. Just another boring wooden bridge in the woodsĪnd 5th and perhaps the worst flaw: it’s very easy to get stuck at a dead-end because if you lack a certain object to progress or to solve a specific puzzle, you can’t backtrack. It’s quite large for an earlier computer game and you can go infinitely in every direction (the map simply revolves around itself). It’s about 48 screens long, without counting interior locations. Although there’s an optimal solution that gives more points, the fact of having different solutions to one specific puzzle increases the replay value and it’s more fun to explore alternative ways in how to do it.ĭaventry isn’t too big but it isn’t all that small either. It’s probably the beginning of the open-world mechanic we know nowadays.Īlso, King’s Quest introduces something that most graphic adventures lack: different solutions to some of the puzzles. You can go in every direction and search for any of the treasures in any order you want. That’s one of the things that I love about this game: it’s more or less non-linear. Sir Graham, Sir Graham, he’s his own merry man!”Īfter you exit the castle, you’re free to roam throughout the entire kingdom. “Sir Graham, Sir Graham, walking beside the moat. It was then re-released in 1986 for the Atari ST, in 1987 for MS-DOS, Amiga, Macintosh and Apple IIgs and in 1989 it was ported to the Sega Master System by Parker Brothers.įor every release there seems to be a different cover, so let’s start with the PCjr’s cover: King’s Quest was originally released in 1984 for the IBM PCjr, Apple II and PC-compatible computers.

Like that one, she wanted to make a game based on fairy tales and fantasy: of a gallant knight in a quest to save a kingdom. Sierra took full advantage of the proposal to develop a game engine called Adventure Game Interpreter (AGI) and with it, Roberta Williams developed a game based on a previous On-Line Systems’ (Sierra’s former name) title: Wizard and the Princess (AKA Adventure in Serenia). We can’t make a Sierra games retrospective without beginning with one of the first graphic adventures ever made for the IBM PC and Sierra’s first big hit: King’s Quest: Quest for the Crown.Īs I mentioned in my Sierra historical retrospective, IBM needed a game to promote their new computer, the PCjr and approached Sierra to finance it.

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