Roberta Williams' King's Quest I: Quest for the Crown

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Description

Roberta Williams' King's Quest I: Quest for the Crown is a remake of King's Quest. It uses Sierra's 16-color SCI game interpreter, making it visually similar to the series' fourth installment, with more detailed EGA full-screen graphics and optional mouse support, while retaining text-based input and interaction. This version also has a musical score that supports sound cards, as opposed to the speaker-only output of the original release.

Several changes have been made to the game's locations and script. A few new characters appear in the remake, and some of the conversations feature additional lines. A number of puzzles have slightly different solutions, and some objects are found in different places than they were in the original version.

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Part of the Following Groups

• Enhanced remakes
• Game Engine: Sierra's Creative Interpreter (SCI)
• Game with Creator's name
• King's Quest series
• Sierra remakes

User Reviews

Another Sierra remake, but not in the same vein as later ones.	DOS	Katakis | カタキス (39652)
A fun game slammed for all the wrong reasons	DOS	anton treuenfels (37)
An experiment that failed in terms of gameplay.	DOS	Trixter (9123)
Better graphics, better sounds... better game?	DOS	Qlberts (60)

Critic Reviews

Adventure Classic Gaming	DOS	Sep 20, 1999	5 out of 5	100
Amiga Force	Amiga	Apr, 1994	81 out of 100	81
Amiga Computing	Amiga	Mar, 1994	67 out of 100	67
Amiga Format	Amiga	Apr, 1994	6 out of 10	60
Adventure Gamers	DOS	Aug 25, 2005		60
GameZebo	DOS	Aug 06, 2009		60
The One Amiga	Amiga	Feb, 1994	57 out of 100	57
Joker Verlag präsentiert: Sonderheft	DOS	1993	55 out of 100	55
CU Amiga	Amiga	Mar, 1994	45 out of 100	45

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Trivia

Bugs

There is a severe bug in KQ1 (the remake) that causes your character sprite to "fall" into the river and keep on falling--off the bottom of the screen, looping back to the top, endlessly. You have to reboot to get out of the game when this happens.

Related Web Sites

• Hints for King's Quest 1 (Universal Hint System hints for KQ1: Quest for the Crown)
• King's Quest Den (Fan Site dedicated to the King's Quest Series)
• Royal Quest (Site featuring a new remake of King's Quest 1 (2001))