Difference between revisions of "King's Quest: Quest for the Crown"

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Adventure in Serenia	1982
King's Quest: Quest for the Crown‎	1984
King's Quest II: Romancing the Throne	1985
King's Quest III: To Heir Is Human	1986
King's Quest IV: The Perils of Rosella	1988
King's Quest V: Absence Makes the Heart Go Yonder!	1990
King Graham's Board Game Challenge	1992
King's Quest VI: Heir Today, Gone Tomorrow	1992
King's Quest VII: The Princeless Bride	1994
King's Quest: Mask of Eternity	1998
The Silver Lining (unofficial)	2010
King's Quest (2015)	2015

Key points

The 1990 EGA remake is titled King's Quest 1: Quest for the Crown.

General information

King's Quest Omnipedia - A huge wiki for the King's Quest series

GOG.com Community Discussions for game series

GOG.com Support Page

Steam Community Discussions for game series

Steam Users' Forums for game series

Sierra Help Pages - Technical help to get KQ running on modern operating systems for game series

Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Official website		Available for free. Modified to work on browsers. Original release only.
GOG.com		Configured to run under DOSBox. Comes bundled with King's Quest II: Romancing the Throne and King's Quest III: To Heir Is Human.
Steam		Comes bundled with all other King's Quest games (excluding King's Quest 8).

Steam only has the EGA remake available. GOG.com only has the original version available

The Steam collection is not properly configured for modern systems

Essential improvements

King's Quest I Unofficial Remake

A complete and free remake of the game, it adds new VGA style graphics, dialogue, an updated Point-and-Click UI, and a complete soundtrack.

It can be found here.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

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System	Location
Steam Play (Linux)	<SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/10100/pfx/^{[Note 1]}

Save game data location

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System	Location
Steam Play (Linux)	<SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/10100/pfx/^{[Note 1]}

Save game cloud syncing

System	Native	Notes
GOG Galaxy
Steam Cloud

Video settings

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Graphics settings (GOG.com)

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Input settings

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Audio settings

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System requirements

Windows
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	XP, Vista
Processor (CPU)	1 GHz	1.4 GHz
System memory (RAM)	256 MB	512 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	30 MB
Video card (GPU)	DirectX 7 compatible	DirectX 9 compatible

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-{{Availability/row| official | http://sarien.net/kingsquest | unknown | Available for free. Modified to work on browsers. Original release only. }}
+{{Availability/row| official | http://sarien.net/kingsquest | Online | Available for free. Modified to work on browsers. Original release only. }}
 {{Availability/row| GOG | kings_quest_1_2_3 | DRM-free | Configured to run under [[DOSBox]]. Comes bundled with [[King's Quest II: Romancing the Throne]] and [[King's Quest III: To Heir Is Human]]. }}
 {{Availability/row| Steam | 10100 | Steam | Comes bundled with all other King's Quest games (excluding King's Quest 8).}}

Developers
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	Sierra On-Line
Engines
Original	AGI
EGA Remake	SCI0
Release dates
DOS	1987
Mac OS (Classic)	1987
Windows	August 24, 2010