Thanks for all the well wishes! I'm so glad there was such a positive response to my run and so happy to showcase a point and click adventure game at a big marathon. Here's hoping we get to see even more at future events!
Great choice for a speedrun! KQ V was my absolute favorite game as a kid, and VI want too far behind. Jakijo was a great runner. Terrific, joyful energy.
Felt that discussion of dead-tree DRM in early computer gaming and especially the pain of losing the key. Got locked out of ever progressing rank in Carmen Sandiego because a family member who didn't understand the importance of that World Almanac and Book of Facts put it in the "donate" box during spring cleaning...
My guess for why the mint works on the genie is because you were supposed to have it at the end in an early version of the game, and they added the mint leaves later.
The “zips” were available on original hardware too. Since DOS supported more modern systems than the systems KQ6 was designed for, it’s easy to run on for instance a pentium iii, and also get the zips.
I remember being completely stuck on this game for so long, running from screen to screen clicking every thing with every item in my inventory over and over again. At some point I ended up triggering the endgame by accident and then, like you say, everything went very fast. It's fun to see it played so quickly and confidently, when I was unable to do it for all those years.
I had this game as a kid … and didn’t realize you had to look in to book for the cliffs of copyright protection for months … The days before you could look it up on the internet too!
Yep! There are three (well, four if you count the Amiga version, but don't count that one it's terrible). There's floppy version (very ugly icons), and the two CD-ROM versions, Dos and Windows. This one I'm playing here is the CD-Dos version. CD-Windows has the pretty portraits and hi def icons. I think most versions you get from GOG or Steam nowadays are the CD-Windows version. Each version runs a bit differently for speedrunning purposes, especially floppy version, but so far CD-Dos seems to be the most stable, consistent btw computers, and fastest. For speedrunning purposes, it also matters what emulator you use, but that's a whole other can of worms I won't get into.
The mint dish never runs out of mints until you complete the gnome puzzle, and then you can keep getting mint leaves at the top of the cliffs of logic. Once you’re in the castle, though, if you don’t have mint or have given Jollo the fake lamp, you’re screwed. I once missed the skeleton key on the long path and got stuck an hour later when I couldn’t open the trunk. Older Sierra game didn’t mind letting you dead-end yourself.
That copyright note is very interesting. I feel like if someone wanted to pirate the game they’d be aware of the puzzle and just dump the solutions or some form of guide in a txt file alongsides the archived floppy data lol