King's Quest Redux

The King's Quest series of games, created by Roberta Williams, co-founder of now-defunct Sierra Online, were some of the best adventure games ever written. They were among the first games to attempt to exploit the graphics capabilities of then-modern computers in the mid-1980s, and were the first exposure to computer gaming for a great many people. Anyone who has played any of the KQ games has memories of sitting in front of a glowing CRT long into the night in an attempt to solve one last puzzle before turning in.

Now a company named Infamous Adventures has resurrected King's Quest III: To Heir Is Human for the modern PC. They've updated the graphics to something a little more tolerable to the modern eye, as well as adding a mouse interface -- a welcome change from the original text-parsed system, though it may annoy some historical purists.

If you've never played a KQ, you're in for a treat. If you have fond memories of the game, you can take a stroll down memory lane -- or watch as your children discover the same joy from years gone by. In the same way that actual memories tend to be filtered through the rose-colored glasses of nostalgia, this one looks better than the reality of 22 years ago.

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