King's Quest I (SCI remake)

A fan-made VGA remake of the original King's Quest using Chris Jones' Adventure Game Studio engine. Besides the upgraded graphics it also features a point & click interface, voices (optional) and MP3 music (optional).



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This is a complete reworking of the original King's Quest, using Sierra's 16-color SCI (Sierra Creative Interpreter) engine. In celebration of their 10 years as a successful computer entertainment company, it was decided in 1989 that Sierra On-Line should make new, enhanced versions of the first games in their five most popular game franchises: King's Quest, Space Quest, Leisure Suit Larry, Police Quest and Quest for Glory. They would all use the new SCI system and the enhanced looks and sounds of the new versions would show how much tecnology had improved over the years. Graphics were remade, and new music was added. Being the first of the remade Sierra classics, this game was the only one to be made in 16 colors. All other remakes used SCI Version 1 (introduced in KG5) which allowed hand-painted 256-color backgrounds. However, it turned out that Sierra had greatly miscalculated how the market would receive these games. Every single one of them flopped. It turned out that the people who loved the original versions didn't like the new ones because they didn't have the same feeling to them, and the people who had never played the originals weren't impressed by the old-style gameplay and the simplicity in the storyline. They were heavily critizised in most reviews and many people compared the release of these games to the coloring of classic black and white films: It was simply not an improvement at all, and it was much more rewarding to watch the original, "accurate" version.