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A question: Does anyone remember if KQ was sold along with computers?

Started by Sir Perceval of Daventry, April 14, 2013, 09:03:18 AM

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Sir Perceval of Daventry

Back in the '90s, as a way to sell more copies of a game, computer game companies would sometimes sell a copy of the game with a new PC. Like for example, if you bought a new PC, it'd come with a copy of Myst--Myst was actually sold this way in it's first years of release. Does anyone know if King's Quest was sold with new computers in the 1990s?

Lambonius

I'm almost certain they were.  The version of KQ5 I had was not a standard boxed version, but I can't remember if it came with my dad's new computer or not.  I know Lucasarts games did though.  My first real point and click adventure game was the Last Crusade graphic adventure that came with our shiny new 286.

Sir Perceval of Daventry

Quote from: Lambonius on April 14, 2013, 11:24:22 AM
I'm almost certain they were.  The version of KQ5 I had was not a standard boxed version, but I can't remember if it came with my dad's new computer or not.  I know Lucasarts games did though.  My first real point and click adventure game was the Last Crusade graphic adventure that came with our shiny new 286.

What was your version of KQ5?
I'm asking because I'm trying to figure out HOW exactly KQ5 came into the house. We got our first computer, a Windows 3.1 Packard Bell computer, sometime in 1995, but my family was NEVER into computers or computer friendly before hand. My memory is very murky about the computer first coming into the house (I don't remember it coming, I just remember it was simply there), but all I remember is that somehow my dad and I began playing it by the end of '95. Given he wasn't a gamer, I'm just speculating that perhaps it came with the computer as a bonus. The version I had looked like this:



It could simply be he saw it in our local Sears (which sold computer games back then) and found it interesting I suppose. I mean he did buy a bunch of games aimed at kids along with Myst (because all his coworkers were playing it and were caught up in the Myst craze of the mid '90s) later, but KQ5 would've been probably the first computer game that was bought. But for a game and series I love so much, I honestly can't remember when or how it came into the house or how we started playing it.

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Icerose

This was my first Kings quest game i played and i got in a box with disks.
And you installed it with the disk i dont know if you can still get those old disk game edition to buy elsewhere? but this is how i played it and how kings quest started for me.