This one is for the fans of the good ol' Sierra point-and-click adventures...and those who have never tried them. These should all work on XP/Vista/7.
Over the past few years, AGDI has released remakes (or, in the case or KQ2, a massive retooling and expansion) of the SVGA versions of King's Quest 1, 2, & 3, as well as Quest for Glory 2 -- all with Sierra's blessing and cooperation. Yep, that's right, boys and girls, they're available for download and playable in all their 320x200 resolution glory! ^_^;> Think yer video card can handle them?
And, oh yeah, did I mention they're free? Go go go. Now!
King's Quest I: Quest for the Crown
King's Quest II: Romancing the Stones (original subtitle: The Perils of Rosella)
King's Quest III Redux: To Heir Is Human
Quest for Glory II: Trial by Fire
Just a couple side notes -- The games don't support anti-aliasing (despite what the Settings thingy says); BE SURE to run the Settings thingy before playing each for the first time, and read the Readme. They do support a "nearest neighbor" version of sprite smoothing, which just makes them look a little blurry to me, YMMV.
On KQ1 - They give you the option, when starting a new game, to activate "no dead ends" mode -- this removes some of the more BS deaths, and makes it so that you can always complete the game even if you missed a vital item from earlier on.
On KQ3 - These guys REALLY love their cheap deaths, don't they? The game has time limits in the first portion of the game. When that old fart you see early on tells you to do something, he means NOW. He will show up at the location he describes not long after he gives you an order, and, if you're not present and doing that activity at the time (or have completed it, it varies), he straight-up wastes you. Fair warning.
The QFG site has short audio stings on several of their pages when you load them up.
Over the past few years, AGDI has released remakes (or, in the case or KQ2, a massive retooling and expansion) of the SVGA versions of King's Quest 1, 2, & 3, as well as Quest for Glory 2 -- all with Sierra's blessing and cooperation. Yep, that's right, boys and girls, they're available for download and playable in all their 320x200 resolution glory! ^_^;> Think yer video card can handle them?
And, oh yeah, did I mention they're free? Go go go. Now!
King's Quest I: Quest for the Crown
King's Quest II: Romancing the Stones (original subtitle: The Perils of Rosella)
King's Quest III Redux: To Heir Is Human
Quest for Glory II: Trial by Fire
Just a couple side notes -- The games don't support anti-aliasing (despite what the Settings thingy says); BE SURE to run the Settings thingy before playing each for the first time, and read the Readme. They do support a "nearest neighbor" version of sprite smoothing, which just makes them look a little blurry to me, YMMV.
On KQ1 - They give you the option, when starting a new game, to activate "no dead ends" mode -- this removes some of the more BS deaths, and makes it so that you can always complete the game even if you missed a vital item from earlier on.
On KQ3 - These guys REALLY love their cheap deaths, don't they? The game has time limits in the first portion of the game. When that old fart you see early on tells you to do something, he means NOW. He will show up at the location he describes not long after he gives you an order, and, if you're not present and doing that activity at the time (or have completed it, it varies), he straight-up wastes you. Fair warning.
The QFG site has short audio stings on several of their pages when you load them up.
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