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Summary: Amazing classics
Review: These games got me started on adventure games way back when. KQ 6 is highly recommended for an amazing story, beautiful graphics for its time, and delightful voiceovers.
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Summary: King's Quest Collection: A Classic
Review: These games have taken their place in computer history. King's Quest is the series that got Sierra started. King's Quest and the accompanying games are great fun for everyone in the family. But be forewarned - on the older games, typing is required, and it's not always easy to navigate. Because these games are so old, compatibility can be a problem. For sound, however, downloading "VDMSound," currently at http://ntvdm.cjb.net/ or http://vdmsound.sourceforge.net/ will help.
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Summary: King's Quest Collection: A Classic
Review: These games have taken their place in computer history. King's Quest is the series that got Sierra started. King's Quest and the accompanying games are great fun for everyone in the family. But be forewarned - on the older games, typing is required, and it's not always easy to navigate. Because these games are so old, compatibility can be a problem. For sound, however, downloading "VDMSound," currently at http://ntvdm.cjb.net/ or http://vdmsound.sourceforge.net/ will help.
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Summary: A Great Deal for Great Games!
Review: This collection is a must-buy for any nostalgic computer gamer. All seven of the original King's Quest games are included for an astonishing low price! Several bonuses are included as well.
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Summary: Weeee
Review: This game in the earlier part of the series may not have good graphics, but I think that 1-4 were much harder than 5-7, this also is partially because of bad graphics but the riddles were very hard to figure out. Don't get me wrong though, I really like the later ones(though I haven't played 8) they all as a group took me about a year or two.
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Summary: Kings Quest by Serria
Review: This Game Rock! I've only played games 5&6, BUT from that I can't wait for the next game. You have to get this is awsome. The grafics might be a little cheesey but that's okay~ And on KQ 6 DEATH THE LORD OF THE RELM OF THE DEAD IS AWASOME AWASOME. Trust me. I woudn't have written this if it was a totaly boring serria game. See Ya:-)
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Summary: Fun for All Ages
Review: This is a collection of the first 7 King's Quest game covering a history going back to the mid-80s. Therefore the earliest of these games are quite primative, but have a nostalgic charm to them, and all the games have fun fantasy stories with a wonderful, light sense of humour. When the first King's Quest came out it was at the vanguard of game design. Unlike the text adventure games common at the time (some of which had a few static graphics), here you could see your character moving around an actual environment and interacting with objects. The games themselves are quite simple (basically, they are just treasure hunts where you have to find the right object and take it back to the correct character to trade for another object, etc.) but charming. The interface on these earliest games are parser, as opposed to point and click, meaning (with the exception of movement by cursor keys) you have to type in commands in order to tell the character what to do. This had its disadvantages (at times, you know what to do but not how to say it), but it also had its advantages (there was less room for guessing by just clicking your inventory objects on the hotspot one at a time). In KQ1 and 2, the puzzles are mainly based on remembering rhymes and fairy tales (e.g., you know Little Red Riding Hood needs a basket to take to her Grandma's house), but with KQ 3, the storylines start to become more complex and original and interesting, and actual problem solving starts to come into play. And with KQ4, the graphics start to become more artistic (although still primitive by today's standards). KQ5 is the first one with a point-and-click interface, and suffers from the problem that it is easy to solve puzzles by just clicking inventory items at random instead of by thinking, (and many of the puzzles are obvious at any rate, especially when you find the right object) but the enjoyable storyline makes up for this. KQ6 (designed with the help of Gabriel Knight's Jane Jensen) is clearly the best story-wise, and has some challenging puzzles (save often to avoid frustration). KQ7, the first designed for release exclusively on cd-rom, has the best graphics of the series (even better than the 3D crap in #8) and includes a world straight out of a Tim Burton movie that is especially fun to explore, but is geared towards a younger audience (even then, I enjoyed the story and interesting puzzles with multiple solutions). Unlike Lucasfilm games, the characters in KQ can die and, if this happens, you have to restart from a saved game, but it is sometimes fun to see how many different ways they can die (for #7 it is the most entertaining part of the game). Included is the newer version of Mixed Up Mother Goose where young players help to recreate mother goose rhymes by reuniting characters with lost objects (no death in this one). The original MUMG had a certain charm, but only toddlers will fail to find this one annoying. Also included are both Laura Bow mysteries (about a girl detective in the 1930s), which are fun to play but are convoluted and very frustrating to solve (especially since they are in real time, so while you observe something important in one room, you often miss something else important in another room). Several text games that came out pre-KQ1 are also included (which will help newer players understand why KQ1 was so revolutionary). Most of these games would no longer be worthwhile on their own except as nostalgia (KQ6 and 7 (and maybe 5) being the exceptions), but as one package this is a wonderful buy and leaves one hoping that a KQ9 will come out and repair the damage caused by that travesty, KQ8.
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Summary: The best collection
Review: This is such a great collection. You get all the games from the series, except for the number 8. Plus you get some wonderful bonus, like the Colonel's Bequest and Laura Bow 2. My favorite game is King's Quest 6. You'll have endless hours of fun!
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Summary: Here's to "The Colonel's Bequest"
Review: This is truly a remarkable collection and a great buy. But the best game herein, in my opinion is "The Colonel's Bequest". That's the only reason why I got this collection. If you're an Alfred Hitchcock fan, you'll love this game. It's very reminiscent of the movies "Psycho," (there's even a funny shower scene as a tribute) and "Rope". Set in the swamps of Louisiana in 1927, a young college girl accompanies her friend to the friend's family reunion on a secluded, run-down Civil War plantation. After the head of the family tells his relatives and servants that his wealth will be ditributed to them equally when he dies, murder and mayhem soon follow. As an earlier reviewer stated, this game is great for a cold, dark night. Many details and occurrences of this game are exciting and haunting: from the ghost of a teenage girl in the cemetery and the discovery of the family Bible in the Chapel, to the stories Celie (former plantation slave) tells you of how it was in the old days and the notes and letters left behind by the original land owners who saw that their end was near (referring to the spread of the Civil War). This game is full of mystery and suspense. Despite its aged EGA graphics and typing interface, it will still captivate any gamer who has a hunger for suspense. Regardless of how much graphics, video, and sound improves, this reamins my all-time favorite game.
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Summary: EXCELLENT-Best of the Best
Review: Where do I start? 'King's Quest' is one of, if not THE best adventure game series of all time. My favorite is 'KQ7', but 'KQ6' was close. All the others are also wonderful, even the ones with really primitive graphics. They are all colorful and whimsical and full of interesting and hilarious characters. I especially like that the pack doesn't include 'KQ8: Mask of Eternity'. If you like any of these games, you most likely will despise that one. Anyway, I suggest you buy this pack before it's discontinued. It's worth every penny and so much more.
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