An absolutely flawless playthrough. No mistakes, good pace, enough time to read the texts. Absolutely perfect. And many thanks for playing through, so I didn't have to. :)
These games, along with the old MicroProse games like Railroad Tycoon were what got me into playing games on the computer. I had a Tandy 1000 as well and then a Tandy Sensation they were both from Radio Shack.
This is my favourite King's Quest! But man, was it hard. It took me a long time to finish this one. Thank you for the playthrough. It was a nice walk down memory lane. Oh and good job on the stairs and ledges without falling off! I fell constantly. Ha!
+Christine Kopec I have the old King's Quest Collection that doesn't work on my new computer but I just discovered DosBox so I can now play all those old games. I have recently just beat games 1-3 now I'm on to this game, this one is so cool, I love it.
Do you guys remember the old hint books they sold for these games? They came with some kind of magic yellow marker that you would use to reveal the puzzle solutions in the book.
What a blast from the past this is. First video game I ever played, Police quest too, difficult games for me when I was five years old. My grandfather had them and even he couldn't beat them. Watching this makes me realize how easy it was.
Aww... Those days before video game walkthrough guide books. Then there was the internet. Now, we have RU-vid. I wouldn't have been able to A-S-C-E-N-D in KQVI without the book that came with the game/collection.
I fell in love with Sierra games thanks to this one. I actually have a signed photo from Roberta Williams to this day. I was a huge fan of King's Quest, The Colonel's Bequest, Hero's Quest, Space Quest and Police Quest. Best games of my childhood, and taught me to type!!
Wow, over thirty years after playing this, I never knew about the Roland MT-32 midi music! They were VERY expensive in 1988, so probably now many people had them. The sound is fantastic. Like CD quality.
It was the first Game that used it, my brother bought one last year and he found a list in the Internet that only 1.200 units sold in the first year 1988 worldwide. If you imagine the effort to programming this in the game only for a few people can use this. I only emulated the sound on my PC , it needs 1,1 GByte permanatly of my free memory space but it's very nice to play old games in this quality.But i know only 18 games who used the Roland MT-32. Sorry i 'm german, my english is not perfect.
I remember when this came out and how amazing the screen shots looked on the back of the box. And, of course, female protagonist. Made great use of new sound card too. A lot of firsts with this game.
omfg this was the game that got me into games on the computer. They had it at my school on our IBM's and we could go play on at lunchtime if we signed up. Then my parents bought me a Tandy eventually.
King's Quest 1: Sir Graham becomes King of Daventry. King's Quest 2: King Graham finds and marries a maiden. They have a son and daughter.. King's Quest 3: Their son Prince Alexander escapes from an evil wizard and rescues his sister. King's Quest 4: His sister Princess Rosella rescues their father King Graham. King's Quest 5: King Graham rescues the kingdom and his two children from an evil wizard. King's Quest 6: Prince Alexander rescues and marries Princess Cassima and restores her parents to power. King's Quest 7: Princess Rosella falls into a rabbit hole and is rescued by Queen Valanice.
First played this at the tender age of five, my first ever computer game. I've loved adventure and RPG games ever since. You had to spell every word correctly, too. I had to ask someone how to spell "bridge" so I could look under it, lol. Educational! Other words I learned: "doozy" "blanch" "peasant" "virtuoso" "henchmen" "noxious" I remember I took my time exploring, trying to pick up objects that weren't meant to be picked up; climb trees that weren't meant to be climbed. I wanted to see the rest of Genesta's palace. Curious about everything. The game was so hard we had to buy a cheat book! I miss having the time to do nothing but play. This game has a special place in my heart.
I love the King's Quest games, started with the first one in 84 and never looked back. But in those first few years of King's Quest 1-3 I had to play them at my cousins or a friends house it wasn't until around this game when my family finally got a computer so this was one of the first games I got . So much fun. King's Quest 1-6 are legendary to me.
The real perils of Rosella were where she was going to put all the items in that peasant's gown. Seriously, this was the first computer game I ever played and I still love it to this day. Although this walkthrough kinda speeds through a lot of it. I constantly fell down off cliffs and down the stairs in the castle. It also took hours on my old 386 for Genesta to fly down to me or for the goons to drop me off at the bottom of the cliff. But I still loved it. And the pixel art still evokes a fun sense of nostalgia for me.
I remember this so well. I too did it on a Tandy 1000 EX. I'm so glad you post these, especially without commentary. So many skipped college classes so I could play these. As I recall, the tombstones had some clever sayings on them.
Such wonderful memories. I don't think I ever managed to beat this as a kid - I have no idea how I got as far as I did though. Thanks for the recording.
Because lord knows what you have between your legs is all that matters when it comes to characters. That's the only way in which we can relate to them. BTW, you do realize who created king's quest, right? A woman.
Unlike most players they just skip the dialogue in just 3 seconds, so we have to be fast on the pause button. I'm thankful for this video, I plan to buy the later sequals (windows 7 compatible versions). Watching these videos gives me a heads up and a better sense of direction with the suroundings of the world I'm going to explore soon.
This game should be called "King's quest IV: Doing random stuff to solve puzzles without the game hinting anything at all". Alternatively, "King's Quest IV: Gravedigging"
Had a Tandy 1000SX and Tandy Joystick and played most all of the Kings Quest games on it, the Police Quest series, and Space Quest series. I'd give anything to have that computer back (and the sea of floppy discs) and to experience that again. Such good memories.
Played on a 386SX 16 Mhz with 2Mb RAM and 20Mb hard drive. I had to borrow money from the bank to buy the machine. Thank you so much for allowing me to relive a simpler time in my life.
My fav KQ chapter. It's the most "fairy" chapter, it makes you feel playin in heaven with a strawberry flavour in your mouth. The environment is so charming, the haunted house reminds me to the Hammer movies. Characters, items and puzzles are so fitting. There's some really infamous riddle here and there, but that's typical for a Sierra's old adventure. The bridle issue was a nightmare (you had to write look down or look ground, otherwise you had no chance to find it). The saga begun to went down after this chapter. Anyway, Sierra's games will live forever as classics.
Great job recording this. The necessary readings are there long enough and the slow movements have been sped up just enough to keep it interesting. I hadn't played this since the 80's and have long since lost the necessary help book for all the clues that don't exist. This was a fun walk thru memory lane. Ruben: I suspect the good music was obtained by choosing IBM Compatible Internal Speaker and then playing through DOS BOX. By doing this music won't play on my DOS system, but it sounds great in DOSBOX.
Randomly remembered this game today and was so happy to see this walkthrough. It really takes me back. I remember playing this as a kid and I also remember that I about never got past that whale part. So glad to see the rest of the game that I never saw back when I was a kid. :)
I'm that one kid who has this as my first game ever. I was 3 years old when I was taught by my grandpa how to use the computer. Now Im 15 and I still remember my childhood. God I wanna play this again.
I got this game at the time I got my first PC. I didn't even have a sound card, so the music was very basic. Even though I had an NES I was completely captivated by this game, and it kept me glued to my PC for hours. I died over and over again.....but I still loved it. Thanks for posting this.
I remeber buying the game at Egghead Software in NYC in 90s and the additional hint books. After starting to play, I specially bought the supported AdLib Soundcard for the computer to hear the music. (nowadays the kids cannot imagine the great steps i.e. the improvement of graphics in KQ4 (VGA) compared to KQ1 (EGA) / buying a soundcard for the computer to hear some sort of MIDI files been played back (no real music), rather than having to listed to the "beeptones".
My brother bought one last year, and he found a list in the Internet that only 1.200 units sold in the year 1988 worldwide. If you imagine the efford to programm this in the game only for a few people. I only emulated the sound on my PC it needs 1.1 GByte of my free memory space but it's well to play old games so. I'm german, sorry for my english.
Also, some adult observations: Genesta, you emotional manipulator! That light in the house's tower to the piano never seems to stop burning. Good god, there are a lot of diamonds in that mine. Who the hell are they selling them to? Wow, this fisherman is, uh, astoundingly unimpressed by a bag full of diamonds. Maybe the dwarves have saturated the market with their mining, and diamonds are about as valuable as they are in our world? That's cruel. That's why they're all poor. Why doesn't Lolotte just order Rosella to put out a hit on Genesta? How hard can it be? Frogs don't have lips! Holy hell, that dog just ate a whole human. Isn't it animal cruelty to just ride that unicorn straight into the clutches of Lolotte? Gave her the hen, too. Shame on you, Rosella! "No one will ever accidentally release the evils of Pandora's box into the world!" ...until they bulldoze to clear ground for a new shopping center and break the box in the process...and like such as...
I've been watching people play kings quest in kind of a strange order. First I was introduced to it by the newest game with old Graham talking to Gwendolyn. Then I watched kings quest 5, then 6 now this, afterwards I will watch 7 then 3 then 1.
I played this on the Apple IIGS. 26:24 That stupid bridle in the wrecked boat! I remember typing "look ground" while standing in there and it said there was nothing there. So I moved on... I was stuck so I eventually had to look up a tip and realized I just wasn't standing in the exact correct spot!
Playing these old KQ and SQ games are really interesting and fun to play also its great to see how far we have come in terms of gameplay and graphics. Damn this is an impressive game for 1988, none of our consoles could do this back in the day... maybe the NES could but the audio and processing might be butchered.
Is that an option?? I never got the good ending either. In my case, it was because I healed Genesta before getting the fruit, not knowing that doing so would end the game. Seriously, couldn't she at least have waited half an hour before teleporting me back? Anyway, I was a kid and I got so downhearted that I just quit
I knew someone that worked on these games.. but i did not talk to them much .. i wish i did . I went to school with their son. When they mentioned they worked on that game … I had never heard of it .
I feel bad for Edgar. He didn't get the girl( er. Princess) Rosella like he deserved too. I think Rosella should have gone back and married him after her dad was healed.
Its a real pity that only the Amiga version had sound effects...I would love to replay it on PC.I still got an Amiga tho but too much trouble to set it up for one game lol
Man, the previous playthrough you did of this, I didn't notice the cave troll (you last time got the fruit and got out before it got dark). DANG that was creepy! And you hadn't even gotten to the zombies yet!
Oh and there's a place called RE-PC in Washington that salvages all old computers and puts together reman's to sell to the public. Saw some windows 95 machines they have for like $180 or so. Kind of cool a company is out there to fix old stuff.
The sound is considerably better than the first 3 games. Shame I only.got to play the original as a kid. Believe it was an original IBM computer with dos
***** cant remember. I belive we had instructions how to finish the game from some magazine. It was crazy difficult as a child, i didnt understand any english back then :D
I ended up breaking the shovel at the ghost house before getting the last item for the boy, and I saved beforehand so I'm stuck forever. Don't really wanna playthru so imma watch this :D
I remember not being able to complete this game without a walkthrough, and later looking up the solution and it being some reall dumb unintuitive shit with a shovel in some god damned graveyard. Your comment seems similar.
I remember getting this game when my dad got us an IBM PC long time ago... remember the liottle green book that came with it... there is no possible way to deduct all this from that book... how did they manage?
From an interview about it: " Because adventure games are a lot about exploring and walking around, we wanted to make sure we had a really good character controller, so he feels really good to move around. That said, this is not an action platformer,” Korba says, acknowledging that the trailer might have mistakenly given that impression. In fact, Graham jumps and climbs automatically when necessary, no dexterity required. And when he reaches an area in the cave where he has to sneak past the sleeping dragon, he tiptoes all on his own-just one example of a unique animation created to enhance the storytelling: “There are no ‘modes,’ it depends on what story beat we’re trying to hit. So right now he’s tiptoeing, that doesn’t mean there’s a stealth mode in this game, it’s purely only for this section. He does it automatically, there’s no sneak button. It makes [the game] really hard to make, because we don’t get to reuse anything.”
How did you manage to escape the troll? I"ve never seen him in this video, on both ways through the cave. Please help, because he always gets me without saving my game, and you seem to manage to avoid him without saving
**THIS GAME WOULD HAVE BEEN SOOOOO MUCH SHORTER, ONCE YOU GOT THE """FRUIT""", WHERE THE SNAKE WAS..... AND THEN WENT BACK TO WHERE YOU STARTED FROM!!**
this game was pretty hard. some parts were so random, not intuitive. it's hard to get all of the points available. like the whale part, never would have figured that out without help
Missed in the beginning to verify your legal ownership of Kings Quest IV what is the fifth word in the second paragraph on page 8 in the Kings Quest manual
You had 24 hours to recover the talisman for the Fairy Queen. It was pointless, but after the night experience, the day would eventually hit the time limit.
