King's Quest - The first graphic adventure ever made for the IBM PC and Sierra’s first big hit reviewed!

We can’t make a Sierra games retrospective without beginning with the first graphic adventure ever made for the IBM PC and Sierra’s first big hit: King’s Quest: Quest for the Crown.

As I mentioned in my Sierra historical retrospective, IBM needed a game to promote their new computer, the PCjr, and approached Sierra to finance it. Sierra took full advantage of the proposal to develop a game engine called Adventure Game Interpreter (AGI) and with it, Roberta Williams developed a game based on an On-line Systems (Sierra’s former name) title: Wizard and the Princess (AKA Adventure in Serenia). Like that one, she wanted to make a game based on fairy tales and fantasy: of a gallant knight in a quest to save a kingdom.

King’s Quest – New Reveal Trailer & Remakes!

Back in August of this year we mentioned the big Sierra tease for the latest King's Quest game that was given it's first announcement. The very first King's Quest was released way back in 1984 and with a series of sequels is remembered as some of the best adventure games ever made. You can still play a number of remakes and original Amiga titles available from our website. As for today's news, Sierra Games has released the Game Awards 2014 Reveal Trailer for the next King's Quest game. Developed by The Odd Gentlemen, the new King’s Quest re-imagines all the charm, humour, puzzles, exploration and sense of wonder that made the franchise so magical when it first arrived thirty years ago.