Available for the first time on Windows XP. Sate yourself on Sierra Entertainment's collection of the King's Quest Series for the PC. Relive the glory days with the following fantasy smash hits: Quest for the Crown, Romancing the Throne, To Heir is Human, The Perils of Rosella, Absence Makes the Heart Go Yonder, Heir Today, Gone Tomorrow and The Princeless Bride. Relive the nostalgia, romance and classic adventure on your home computer.
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It has program glitches in it at least on the Princeless Bride (game #7) In one section you have to use a fire cracker to blow open a door. The timing as to when the fire cracker blew up after you picked it up was 1 second and it should be longer. I don't know if there are updates at all since the Sierra website is no longer active. This is an old game. But it still challenges your mind and makes you use your thinking cap. After getting through the timing issue of the fire cracker which was a little frustrating (cause you keep dying and then starting over at the same point) the game is now working fine so far. There was one other glitch but for some reason now it's no longer there. I was told that it could have been something else running on computer that might have caused it rather than the program itself,which makes sense as now the "glitch" is no longer there. There are hints on line from other people that you can use to help you. Even with this flaw I still really like the game. I basically bought it for game 7 as the other games graphics are less clear the lower the game number you go (which is understandable due to the age of the game/graphics). I was told that someone redid the software on this game so it would run on Windows XP which is what I keep for my games. I'm really glad they did as I do enjoy it. This game helps you think outside the box. Thank you to whomever made the updates. Your efforts are appreciated.
Awesome is the only word I can think to truly describe these games. I was in my early 20's when my family finally got a computer. Mind you, this was in the 1980's. The first computer game we bought was King's Quest, with the game guide. The whole family would gather around and contribute. We took turns, one would read the directions, one would walk, and another would type. Even though the book guide told you what order to do things, it was SO fun to actually do it and figure just what command to write. It brought our family together!!!
I had my children later in my life, and now I have a 10 year old daughter and a 5 year old son. When I saw this collection, I HAD to get it!!! I still had the guide book. When it came, my daughter asked if she could choose the avatar!! It took just a short time for my kids to figure out you actually had to think and not just hit and shoot people like on the XBOX 360!!
My daughter and I read the guide book, my son walks Graham, and my daughter types the commands!!! They got right into using their brains on what the correct commands should be!! I gave my daughter online typing lessons, so she is pretty good. She was typing like a pro, as we thought up the commands!!!
What a wonderful way to spend good family time!! Working together!! And we just started King's Quest I. We have 6 more to go!!!!!
do not get me wrong, I LOVE THESE GAMES! I am just disappointed that only half of them work on my computer. And the one that I wanted to play Kings Quest VII (the newest of this set) I cannot get to work. I am sure it is solvable through a dos box, but I just have not taken the time to get each one to work. Additionally, the Kings Quest III and Kings Quest V require spell books and/or puzzle keys in which you cannot get from Sierra any longer. :( BUT, thankfully there are PDF files or keys online to locate so you can complete! SOOOOO, YES, it is worth buying, because it is hours of pixilated fun! Good times and good memories associated with these games. PLUS, they all are one story, so it is nice to get the complete picture as we wait for the new one! I look forward to the KINGS QUEST VIII. I do hope in 2016?
I spent the last 3 hours installing and uninstalling this game pack. The games do not work with Windows Vista. I went online to support for both Sierra and vugames.com and both were useless. Here are the problems:
1. The screen resolution cannot be adjusted to match my computer. I tried resetting the resolution in my Control Panel and resetting the resolution on the properties for the KQ game pack. 2. I cannot save a game -- it says the disk is full and I need to create another save game source. Tried all sorts of things but that didn't work. 3. I downloaded KQ 1-3 for free and was able to fix the resolution to the point that I could see what was going on. KQ4-7 were not free, so I just bought the game pack. I wish I had my money back.
Update: After a couple of email exchanges, the seller refunded my money, including shipping costs. I'm quite pleased that they did this since something was wrong with the disks and I couldn't save games (difficult for KQ players). I would trust this seller.
I grew up with Sierra and King's Quest, so I have always been a fan. It's definitely engaging, however it is sort of difficult to progress through the game without a walk-through tutorial, it's not the most intuitive game to be able to figure out on the whim. However look online and find walk-through tutorials (they're everywhere) and you'll have a blast with the game. The early versions of the game such as 1-4 have typing commands, instead of the point-and-click, but it helps to start kids off typing. I know it definitely helped me learn to type faster and more often when I was a kid playing this game. But the newer editions of the game 5-7 are all point and click with a mouse, and that's fun too, but not as rewarding in my opinion to point and click the entire time through a game. But that's how the evolution of gaming has turned. But definitely good clean fun, but definitely a looong game! So it's engaging for the kid to continuously try to master through levels of the game.
You can get this to play on Windows 7 with some hassle. I struggled with it a bit, but finally got it to work. Compatibility mode will only work on some of the games. To get everything to work the way it should you must install XP mode which is a hassle and can only be done if you have Windows 7 Pro. KQ 5 however had a fatal glitch about half way through the game. I LOVED these as a kid but realized I probably didn't need to waste that much time playing these old games anyway.
It's all the King's Quest games in a neat little package. Once all the games have been installed, it gives you a tidy little launcher menu. You can even browse through the old manuals in PDF format. Each game is launched inside of DOSBox. For those who don't know, DOSBox is a program used to simulate the hardware of an old machine running the DOS operating system.
Some problems I had: You have to set up DOSBox to run in Compatibility mode for Windows 98/ME and run it as the administrator, otherwise, the colours can display wrongly. or the graphics will appear with vertical bars of random colours.
After you're done playing for a while with the graphics displaying properly, you must restart your computer if you want to play again or play another KQ game or else the graphics will mess up again. (Note: This problem might only occur if you're using a non-standard, netbook resolution, or on Intel Graphics. I'm not sure what causes the problem, and haven't experimented)
All in all, I think this was a great purchase, it made the gift receiver very happy to be able to play her favourite games all over again.
