King's Quest: Quest for the Crown

created and published by Sierra On-Line in 1984-05-10, running on MS-DOS

type: adventure
genre: Fantasy
series: King's Quest
setting: Medieval, Uchronia
perspective: 3rd person
player options: single player

game engine: Adventure Game Interpreter
languages: eng

3.3/5

Technical specs

software: Adventure Game Interpreter, Scumm Virtual Machine,

hardware: 8086 CPU, 8088 CPU, Color Graphics Adapter, Enhanced Graphics Adapter, Hercules Graphics Card, Multicolor Graphics Adapter, Tandy Graphics Adapter, Video Graphics Array, Joystick, Keyboard, PC speaker SPU,

display: raster

Editor notes (2)

King's Quest was created for the PCjr and Sierra staked the company on it. The PCjr was canceled, but, Tandy cloned the design and King's Quest instead, debuted as a Tandy 1000 pack-in game specifically designed for Tandy's 16 color graphics and 3 voice sound. This entry is about the later MS-DOS specific version with additional sound and graphics options. Eventually there was a VGA patch. There was a much later DOS remake with another engine.