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| KING'S QUEST I: QUEST FOR THE CROWN |
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VGA Remake Game (v3.0) (20.5 MB),
Digital Music Pack (26.8 MB), Digital Speech Pack (2.89 MB) |
Game Last Updated: October 1st, 2003
SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
* Video card which supports SVGA display
* 1 MB Video RAM required, 2 MB recommended
* Pentium processor (233 Mhz or above required)
* 16 MB RAM
* MS-DOS 5.00 or higher, Windows 95, 98, ME, 2000 or XP
* DirectX 5 or above (DirectX 8.1 recommended)
* Approximately 45 MB free disk space
* 100% General MIDI compliant MIDI sound card or module
- Supports all DirectX-compatible sound and video cards
* If digital music pack and/or speech pack is installed:
- Any sound card with digital output capabilities
- A total of 77 MB free disk space
If your system fails to meet these requirements, you may experience slowness and choppy game-play. A Pentium (or equivalent) system above 500 Mhz is generally recommended.
Download KQ1VGA (v3.0) now (20.5 MB)
Download the Music Pack now (26.8 MB)
Download the Speech Pack now (2.89 MB)
NOTE about downloading: If you are using GetRight, or if you are having any trouble downloading these files, please refer to our Technical FAQ.
NOTE for v3.0: You should uninstall or delete any existing version of KQ1VGA from your hard drive prior to installing version 3.0. Furthermore, saved games from previous versions of KQ1VGA are not compatible with version 3.0.
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| KING'S QUEST HISTORY AND AGDI'S REMAKE |
King's Quest: Quest for the Crown, a revolutionary game designed by Roberta Williams and released in 1984, epitomizes the adventure gaming experience. This game was the first of its kind that allowed the player to interact in an entirely original 2.5D world, and can be credited as the game that started graphic adventure gaming on the PC altogether. King's Quest was not only groundbreaking, but also history in the making, and was followed by seven more games bearing the King's Quest title.
In 1990, Sierra released a remake of the original King's Quest game with newer technology and graphics (using their SCI engine, 16 color EGA graphics, sound card and mouse support), which ended up being a total market failure. Therefore, it is highly unlikely that Sierra ever had or will have any thoughts of making an even further updated version of King's Quest 1, because they would most likely lose money. That's where the Anonymous Game Developers decided to take over. Our aim was to remake King's Quest 1 with the same level of quality as Sierra's remake of Quest for Glory 1. We believe that the enhanced gaming experience for King's Quest fans has justified our months of hard work for no pay or credit.
The Anonymous Game Developers have searched far and wide for an old version of King's Quest for sale, but have searched in vain. The only remaining copies are being sold on eBay, and will only profit those who bought the game over a decade ago. We feel that Sierra abandoned the adventure gaming genre because it did not prove to be profitable at that moment in time. Yet, we're hoping that by bringing back the ultimate classic adventure game, we can prove to Sierra that a huge interest still lies within the fans to play such games. It's our little contribution to try to bring the good old adventure games, as we used to know them, back on the market.
During the first month of releasing the game, over 5,000 copies were downloaded! In the first year, that number rocketed to nearly half a million. The additional voicepack has been downloaded hundreds of times over a period of a few days, and thousands of times over the span of months! It's obvious that there are still numerous adventure gaming fans, around the world, yearning to play more games in this genre! The King's Quest I VGA remake and all of our future projects are just our little contribution to the adventure gaming community and its fans.
For more information, please refer to the KQ1VGA FAQ.
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| KING'S QUEST I VGA SCREENSHOTS |
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Full dialogue closeups can lead to experiences both fantastic and frightening! |
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Remember this well from the original King's Quest? Daventry has never looked so good! |
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Cloudland awaits, but you'll still have to do some tricky climbing to get there.
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| THE DEVELOPMENT TEAM |
The King's Quest I VGA remake development team consisted of two official members: Anonymous Game Developers #1 and #2. They both did a variety of tasks, including making background art, sprites, dialogue pictures, animations, scripting, and music conversion.
Over time, we accepted help from numerous people to enhance the overall quality of KQ1VGA. We acknolwedge these people on our credits page.
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| RELEASE HISTORY & INFORMATION |
The King's Quest I VGA remake was released on August 7th, 2001. It was the first fan-made adventure game remake ever released, and the first fan-made game to ever include a voice pack! In all aspects, the King's Quest I VGA remake has broken records!
Additionally, the game was released on the same day that Anonymous Game Developer #1's first nephew was born! Between the game and that, it was a very exciting time for everyone!
The voice pack for the King's Quest I VGA remake was released on September 1st, 2001. Shortly before the voice pack release, an updated version of the game was made available for download. The voice pack will only run on this newest version (2.0) of the game.
On October 1st, 2003, version 3.0 of KQ1VGA was released, featuring translation pack support, bug fixes, optimized music and speech packs and more.
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| TRANSLATION PACKS |
Version 3.0 of KQ1VGA supports the following languages: Dutch, German, Icelandic, Italian, Russian & Spanish.
You can also: download a Latin translation. To install the Latin translation, simply unzip the file to your KQ1VGA directory. To enable any translation, click "Game Options" in the startup menu and then choose your language.
There will be no future translation packs released for KQ1VGA.
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| AWARDS & TESTIMONIALS |
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| STATISTICS |
AGDI uses the free engine Adventure Game Studio (AGS for short) written by Chris Jones to make our games. To the right are the AGS stats for KQ1VGA.
To date, KQ1VGA has been downloaded over 190,000 times. The music pack has been downloaded over 75,000 times and the speech pack has been downloaded over 55,000 times.
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| WALKTHROUGH |
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