After speedrunning classic PC adventure games, I realized that if anyone was going to make speedrun documentaries about our community, I couldn't wait for anyone else to do it. In the summer of 2020, I released the world record history of King's Quest, and I've been making speed docs ever since.
I currently focus on retro PC adventure games like King's Quest and Quest for Glory. As time goes on, I may branch out, but my interest is finding passionate, smaller communities.
Honestly playing this game casually without crashing, bugging or softlocking would be a miracle if memory serves. I remember this thing breaking on my every 5 minutes on its own without any speedrun strats.
The conquests games were among my favorites because they were so well thought out, historically accurate and had great narratives. This video was so thoughtfully researched and presented and had a great narrative as well. Great job all around, best video ever made about this game.
Great video! I love speedrun explanations that explain what should have happened and what tech is being used to skip around the game. I’ve lots of nostalgia for the old Sierra games, not so much to want to play them again myself, so it’s fun to see people so good play them.
I've already watched this video multiple times and I can't seem to stop, everything from the overall structure of the video to the voice acting I love it all!
51:57, this is what I watch speedrunning documentaries for, to see if any of them make it out, back into real life. The guys who quit speedrunnin and make something of themsleves, those are the real champions.
Oh gods, King's Quest 6. I remember when I got my very first PC, this was the very first game I got for it. CD-Rom version if I recall as it was several years after it came out. And... man I just struggled so damned hard with it. I kept thinking I knew what to do with the game despite it feeling very... obtuse to me. Like there was a distinct lack of guidance and logic for what you were supposed to do. Eventually finding myself being thrown into the labyrinth by the winged people. And just... failing to figure out how to navigate this crushing ceiling trap. I remember going: "Ah ha, exposed gears, I need to stop them somehow!" and trying almost everything I could figure out how to get to that point on it. A skull, a rock, a pearl, a stick, and just... nothing at all was working. Game broke me back then as a kid. Now though... man the opening is making me want to go back and kick its ass.
Whenever I get absolutely stressed out about life in general I come running here watching, well really any of your videos about old games I used to play back when times were just a little simpler. Never did speedrun anything though.
Look….I loved KQ6 as much as the next person who played it a lot as a child…..and these runs are fun as hell to watch….but having marriages fail over this? It just doesn’t seem healthy.
REQUEST! Please check into the Sierra/Dynamix branching games Rise of the Dragon and Heart of China! Just like your AMAZING Longbow video, there's a lot of twists, turns and optional stuff in these and I'd LOVE your deep dive into them!! Great work!
lmao I'm an oblivious geriatric millennial and had no idea who that was. they've been an active patron for two years and their name has been in every single video, I'm dying laughing right now lolololol
