King's Quest Series

King's Quest Series

King's Quest Series

Release Dates:	1984-2016
Developer(s):	Sierra
Publisher:	Sierra
Designer(s):	Roberta Williams, Josh Mandel, Jane Jensen, Lorelei Shannon, Mark Seibert, Matthew Korba
Category:	Games
Type:	Full, Episodic
Genres:	Adventure, Action
Themes:	Exploration, Fairytale, Fantasy, High Adventure, Legend, Comedy, Mythology, Quick Time, Combat
Engines:	GAL, AGI1, AGI2, AGI3, SCI0, SCI1, SCI1.1, SCI2.1, Virtual Theatre, 3Space (modified), PhysX, Unreal 3
Platforms:	PC Booter, PCjr, Tandy 1000, Tandy CC3, Tandy VIS, MS-DOS, Windows 3x, Windows 9x, Windows, Apple II, Apple IIGS, Atari ST, Macintosh, Amiga, FM Towns, NES, PC-98, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, SEGA Master System, Virtual Theatre (Amiga), Xbox 360, Xbox One
Localizations:	English, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish
Website:	www.sierra.com

Description

Sierra's flagship series. The first game in the series was the first AGI game, King's Quest: Quest for the Crown, which was designed to showcase IBM's new platform, the PCjr. The forth installment, King's Quest IV: The Perils of Rosella, was the first SCI game.

Games in Series

King's Quest: Quest for the Crown

AGI Version

• 1^st Plastic Case Release (IBM) (GAL) (1983)
• 2^nd Plastic Case Release (IBM) (GAL) (1984)
• 3^rd Clamshell Box Release (Tandy) (1984)
• 4^th Gray Box Release (IBM/Apple) (1984)
• 5^th Gold Slip Cover Release (1987)

SCI Remake

• 6^th Gold Slip Cover Release (1990)
• 7^th Release (1990)

King's Quest II: Romancing the Throne (1985)

• 1^st Gray Box Release (1985)
• 2^nd Gold Slip Cover Release (1987)

King's Quest III: To Heir is Human (1986)

• 1^st Gray Box Release (1986}
• 2^nd Gold Slip Cover Release (1987)

King's Quest IV: The Perils of Rosella (1988)

AGI version

• 1^st Release v2.0 (1988)
• 2^nd Release v2.2 (1988)
• 3^rd Release v2.3 (1989)

SCI Version

• 1^st Release 1.000.106 Interpreter does not support patch files (1988/09/19)
• 2^nd Release Unknown 0.000.253 Interpreter does not support patch files (1988/09)
• 3^rd Release 1.000.111 | 0.000.274 Interpreter does not support patch files (1988/09/23)

SCI0 (late)

• 4^th Release 1.003.006 0.000.409 Requires KQ4FIX patch (1988/12/19)
• 5^th Release 1.006.003 0.000.502   (1989/06/12)
• 6^th Release 1.006.004 0.000.502 Ego walks faster diagonally (1989/08/07)

Amiga

• Amiga Release 1.023 0.000.685 1989/08/07 Environmental and other incidental sound effects

Atari ST

• Atari ST Release 1.003.006 1.001.008 Conversion by Corey Cole (1988/12/07)

King's Quest V: Absence Makes the Heart Go Yonder (1990)

• 1^st Release (1990)
• 2^nd Release (1992) (CD)
• 3^rd Release (1993) (CD)

King's Quest VI: Heir Today, Gone Tomorrow (1992)

• 1^st Release (1992)
• 2^nd Release (MPC) (1993)
• 3^rd Release (MPC) (1993)

King's Quest VII: The Princeless Bride (1994)

• 1^st Release version 1.4 (1994)
• 2^nd Release version 1.51 (1995)
• 3^rd Release version 1.65c (1995)
• 4^th Release version 2.00 (1995)
• 5^th Release version 2.00b (1995)

King's Quest: The Complete Collection (2015)

King's Quest was an episodic release developed by The Odd Gentlemen. It consisted of five chapters with an epilogue:

• King's Quest: Chapter I - A Knight to Remember (2015)
• King's Quest: Chapter II - Rubble Without a Cause (2015)
• King's Quest: Chapter III - Once Upon a Climb (2016)
• King's Quest: Chapter IV - Snow Place Like Home (2016)
• King's Quest: Chapter V - The Good Knight (2016)
• King's Quest: Epilogue (2016)

Series Collections

• King's Quest Collector's Edition (1994)
• King's Quest Collection Series (1997)
• King's Quest Collection (VUG) (2006)
• King's Quest 1+2+3 (GOG) (2010)
• King's Quest 4+5+6 (GOG) (2010)
• King's Quest 7+8 (GOG) (2010)
• King's Quest: Season Pass (2015)
• King's Quest: The Complete Collection (2015)

Compilations

• Triple Value Pack (1987)
• Sierra Award Winners (1992)
• Golden 7 (1993)
• The Roberta Williams Anthology (1996)

Freeware/Extras/Mini Games

• Crazy Nick's Software Picks: King Graham's Board Game Challenge (1992)
• King's Questions (1994)*
• Inside The Chest/Behind the Developers' Shield (1994)

Demos

• King's Quest 1 SCI Demo (1990)
• King's Quest 2 & 3 Demo (1987)
• King's Quest 4 AGI Demo (1988)
• King's Quest 4 SCI Demo (1989)
• King's Quest 6 Demo (1992)
• King's Quest 7 Demo (1994)
• King's Quest MoE Daventry Demo (1998)
• King's Quest MoE Swamp Demo (1998)

Fan Games/Remakes

There were also a number of fan made VGA remakes of the AGI games done in AGS.

• King's Quest ZZT (1997)
• King's Quest ZZT 2 (2000)
• King's Quest I: Quest for the Crown VGA (2001) Remake by AGDInteractive
• King's Quest II: Romancing the Stones VGA (2002)/Enhanced Edition (2009) - Remake with embellished story by AGDInteractive
• Peasant's Quest (2004)
• King's Quest 2¼: Breast Intentions (2005)
• King's Quest III: To Heir is Human VGA 1:1 remake by Infamous Adventures.
• King's Quest V - The Text Adventure (2007)
• Owl's Quest: Every Owl Has Its Day (2007)
• King's Quest III Redux: To Heir is Human VGA (2011) - Remake with embellished story by AGDInteractive
• The Silver Lining (2011)

Downloads

Links to individual game installers can be found on each game's page.

Patches

King's Quest I: Quest for the Crown

• King's Quest I Patch (KQ1_NRS) ZIP file [3.56 KB]

For the remake (SCI) of King's Quest I: Quest for the Crown. This non-Sierra update is one of NewRisingSun's script level timer bugs patches. Fixes Opening/Closing Credits sequence.

King's Quest IV: The Perils of Rosella

• King's Quest IV Patch (KQ4FIX) ZIP file [274 KB]

For the SCI version of King's Quest: The Perils of Rosella. This patch fixes Lockups or errors at the waterfall scene in King's Quest IV: The Perils of Rosella.

King's Quest V

• King's Quest V Patch (KQ5FIX) ZIP file [68.4 KB]

This patch fixes the extremely rare restore problem in King's Quest V.

• King's Quest V CD XP Files (KQ5_BAT) ZIP file [400 bytes]

Batch file to help run the Windows version of King's Quest V in Windows 2000/XP. Please see the King's Quest V XP Help Page for instructions.

• King's Quest V Save Game (KQ5SG) ZIP file [10.9 KB]

This Save Game is a work around for the "Out of heap" error. It will restore the game to just after the short movie that occurs when the cheese is placed in the machine. Mordack turns into a giant Dragonfly, and is hovering directly in front of Graham. You will have about two seconds to go into the inventory and click on the wand.

King's Quest VI

• King's Quest VI CD Updated SoundBlaster Driver (SB16DRV) ZIP file [5.75 KB]

This updated AUDBLAST.DRV for the DOS version corrects a problem with some SoundBlaster 16 ASP sound cards in which only the first digitized sound effect is heard.

• King's Quest VI CD Patch (KQ6CDHI) ZIP file [88.9 KB]

This patch will correct a problem that occurs when King's Quest VI CD is run through Windows at video resolutions higher than 640 x 480. If you were having difficulty making Prince Alexander walk off the bottom of the screen or pick up certain objects, and are running Windows at higher video resolutions like 800 x 600 or 1024 x 768, this patch will help.

• King's Quest VI CD XP Files (KQ6XP) ZIP file [400 bytes]

Files to help run the Windows version of King's Quest VI in Windows 2000/XP. Please see the King's Quest VI XP Help Page for instructions.

King's Quest VII

• King's Quest VII Patch (KQ7PAT) ZIP file [76 KB]

This patch fixes the lockup when Rosella walks through forest, the lockup when taking the wooden nickel from mockingbird, the stuttering mockingbird, the looping at the hummingbird / spiderweb scene, the wooden nickel not highlighting in Faux Shop, the lockup when interacting with the headless horseman or bogeyman, and the lockup in Malicia's house.

• King's Quest VII DOSBox files (KQ7DOSBox) ZIP file [76 KB]

This ZIP contains the RESOURCE.CFG and KQ7.BAT files needed to run the game entirely from the harddrive, using this method.

• King's Quest VII DOS Movies (KQ7_DOS_Movies) RAR file [20.3 MB]

This RAR archive contains the intro and endding movies for the DOS version of the game. The DOS version of the game cannot use the AVI movies that the Windows version uses. These RBT movies are not included with the above KQ7 1.4 or KQ7 1.51 to 2 DOS upgrades or the King's Quest Collection DOSBox Updater below. Extract the three RBT files to the AVI sub folder in the installed KQ7 game folder, using WinZIP or WinRAR.

King's Quest Mask of Eternity

• King's Quest Mask of Eternity Update 1.3 (MoE13fg) ZIP file [991 KB]

This patch will upgrade the English, French, and German versions of Mask of Eternity to version 1.3. The update adds more D3D supported features as well as some bug fixes.

• King's Quest Mask of Eternity Update 1.3 (MoE13fg_64) for 64-bit Windows ZIP file [991 KB]

Same as the above official patch, but repackaged in a 32-bit to work on 64-bit Windows

• Visual Basic 6 Runtime Files Service Pack 5 (VBRUN60SP5) ZIP file [1 MB]

This Microsoft Update for their VB runtime Libraries may help with some hangs at certain points in the game running under Windows 2000.

• Indeo Video Codec (IV5SETUP) ZIP file [1.85 MB]

This codec is the same that should get installed with the game. Sometimes it does not, and may be installed on its own.

• Mask of Eternity Kingdom of Daventry Save Game (SAVEDV) ZIP file [32.7 KB]

This Save Game is a work around for the lockup that many encounter when leaving the millhouse after getting the ax.

• Mask of Eternity Dimension of Death Save Game (SAVEDT) ZIP file [196 KB]

This Save Game is a work around for the possible lockup when using the portal after getting the feather of truth in DoD.

• Mask of Eternity Realm of the Gnomes Save Game (SAVEGN) ZIP file [613 KB]

This Save Game is a work around for the lockup that some encounter in the armory and apothecary shops.

• Mask of Eternity The Barren Region Save Game (SAVEBN) ZIP file [493 KB]

This Save Game is a work around for the lockup that might occur when entering the blacksmith shop.

King's Quest Collection

• King's Quest Collection DOSBox Update (KQCollectionDBUpdate) ZIP file [1.62 MB]

This patch will allow the use of greatly improved latest DOSBox over the version 0.63 that shipped with the Collection. It will upgrade King's Quest 7 to version 2.00b DOS. Also includes the NewRisingSun patch for King's Quest 1 SCI. The patch also restores the missing install files to configure the games' settings. After running the update, you will find new shortcuts in the "Sierra\King's Quest Collection" folder in the Start Menu. The launcher will no longer be needed.

NOTE: If you do not have the latest DOSBox installed allow this updater to download and install the DOSBox for you.

• King's Quest VII DOS Movies (KQ7_DOS_Movies) RAR file [20.4 MB]

This RAR archive contains the intro and endding movies for the DOS version of the game. The DOS version of the game cannot use the AVI movies that the Windows version uses. These RBT movies are not included with the above King's Quest Collection DOSBox Update above. Extract the three RBT files to the AVI sub folder in the installed KQ7 game folder, using WinZIP or WinRAR.

Related Links

• King Graham
• Queen Valanice
• Prince Alexander
• Princess Rosella
• Princess Gwendolyn
• Connor of Daventry
• King's Quest Series on Wikipedia
• King's Quest Series on MobyGames
• King's Quest 1 on IMDb
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• Comedy Adventure Games
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