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Mouse 

Posts: 22
(5/1/06 10:52 am)
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Kings Quest Series
So, just curious.. Has anyone else ever played the "Kings Quest" series by Roberta Williams? Former head of Sierra.

Was the series I grew up on myself =)

"Death is but one step upon a winding road"

Jarren01 

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(5/1/06 2:15 pm)
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Re: Kings Quest Series
There's a name from waaaaaay back. I remember King's Quest when we had monochrome monitors and dot-matrix printers.

The series was interesting enough. The interface changed from a keyboard movement control + command parser. The first one (Quest for the Crown), was actually frustrating for me because it was just way too easy to die...or too easy to make one mistake that you won't know about until well after you have erased over the appropriate save file. They all had fun and interesting stories though.

Roberta Williams also had a hand in making a few more games, such as the Laura Bow series (Colonel's Bequest and Dagger of Amon Ra) based in the the roaring twenties during prohibition and rather sexist stereotypes.

But she had a rather dark side to her too. She also made the Phantasmagoria series. Both of which were...different...

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Mantha the Undead

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(5/1/06 3:10 pm)
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I do remember Kings Quest, tho I discovered it late in the series.. I played the last two to death.

I don't recall the others Jarren mentions, but I will go to my used game store and see if I can find them! (Esp. the 1920's ones... I am a PnP Call of Cthulhu fan.)

Jarren01 

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(5/2/06 2:01 pm)
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Dagger of Amon Ra actually utlized an interface similar to King's Quest 5. Basically, click based movement and action buttons at the bottom of the screen. The problem is that you may not be able to run them as they were not windows programs. So be warned.

Both Laura Bow games were available on CD but were considered "shovelware". Meaning, they ran on CD but were merely just disk images copied to CD for easier installation. And even then it didn't do it right.

Still, the games were fun for their time. Laura had a cute voice to her and most of the dialogue utilized words appropriate for the time. For instance, in the cab...the driver would "motovate" you to where you needed to go. Little things like that...

Phantasmagoria, on the other hand, was more up to date (early 90's at least) and had a horror flick feel to it. The second of the series made me wonder if Roberta was trying to let some of her inner kink out...

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