What was your first KQ?

[Rune_of_Westhaven]

My first graphical adventure game was KQ1.  Bootable disk of questionable origin.  My dad brought it home from one of his work training trips.  Ever since then I've loved adventure games.

Rune

[pocoturtle]

My first was KQVII, but it took me so long to figure it out that I thought I didn't have the full version of the game... only a demo with partial levels, lol!  I never did finish it, but I've played all of them except for KQVIII.   I'd likt to try to finish KQVII, but I can't get it to work on my XP machine!  Any advice??

[Louisiana Night]

The first KQ game I played, was KQI for DOS.

Here are a few threads you might want to take a look at. They'll probably answer your question.

KQ compatibility

Making KQs work with XP...

King's Quest and XP

and here are some links you might want to look at.

Welcome Thread

AGD Interactive(freeware remakes of the first two KQ games)

The Official KQ3VGA Thread(the remake has not been finished yet)

[dew7]

My first KQ was King's Quest I for the IBM PCjr.  

[Ryan Yoo]

My first KQ game was Kings Quest V, I was blwon away by the graphics and sound of that game.  Which is why I still have a soft spot for it, even though I do agree it was probably the cheapest KQ game (I mean, it had lods of puzzles and timed one-shot instances you HAD to react to or you'd be screwed).

Later on though I did play KQ IV, but by the nI was spoiled on a mouse-based interface.

[Rosella]

I remember when I was about 7 there were a few computer games in my house I actually cared about; Kings Quest 5, Kings Quest 7, a broken Kings Quest 6, Laura Bow 2,  the 7th Guest, and the 11th Hour. I also remember my mom saying that KQ 6 was an amazing game and I had to play it. I tried for hours trying to get it to work. I think we were missing a disk, but that didn't stop me. It never did install (imagine that). I also remember seeing my brother play Laura Bow and thinking "that's cool", so then I played it...and beat it before anyone elese in my family got past act 1. I remember trying to get 7th Guest and 11th Hour to work (wonderful games for a 7 year old to be playing). They worked, I was confused and scared to death by both games. I had my parents helping me with it and I think I got one room open in 7th Guest and much much much later (like last year ) I almost finished 11th Hour except I was stuck on the last puzzle. No one would help me with it and my mom didn't seem to understand that this was the LAST PUZZLE before I finished the game. Back on topic, My dad was playing KQ5 and I was hooked, the 1st screen I ever saw was the one with the crying tree. I loved that game and I played it and almost finished it in one day. I than played KQ7 which was wonderfully challenging enough so I could play it on my own, but not so easy I flew through the game with no self-worth. So I played KQ5 and 7 in quick succession. I was hooked and then spent all my money on other KQ games, collections, and mamy other things none of my friends had ever heard of. So there is a nice chunk of my life you now know about.

[Rosierox]

let's see. It was probably KQ1. But it might have been 4. Yeah. That was it. Because we got it from my uncle. And then it was 1,2, 3, and so on. We even got 8...eeeugh...
ah those were the days. Back when I only had the 1st space quest, first laura bow, first monkey island. and commander keen. hehehe.
My best friend only has KQ7, but i can forgive that because she has some other good games. I think she may have actually finished Myst. I always just watched her. I had no idea what the premise was.

[Oldbushie]

I think I already posted in here, but my first was KQ5. Even my mom liked it a lot!

[dew7]

Imo, KQ5 could not hold a candle to KQ6 and I really liked the original KQ1 on my IBM PCjr because it was the start of a 16 color adventure game playing 3 sounds at once on an internal speaker and running off a 5.25 inch drive that was a true floppy disk.  This was the start of the awesome KQ series which is being continued here -- thanks to the great staff at KQ9.  Go Team and produce the greatest King's Quest adventure ever!  

[icarus]

the first king's quest i ever played is 3
at that moment is was a goog game to learn a litle bit writing english.
nowerdays i play only 6 and 7

[Rune_of_Westhaven]

Mine was three....oddly enough my mother played that one too.  And she rarely plays adventure games.

[racx_00]

I think I prefer KQ5 over KQ6 , with KQ5 you had more exploring to do, where KQ6 was just the Green Isles and each island was rather small

Anywayz thats just my opinion

[amarinda]

Heh, my first one was KQ7. I was at a friend's house and she was playing it (this was when I was 10 or so), and I tried it and looooved it. LOL, aw, I was a 10 year-old girl, what do you expect?

Anyway, later I bought it myself and the 1-6 collection. The second one I played waaaas... well. Either 1 and 2, then 4, or 4 then 1 and 2. I loved 4 because, of course, I got to play a girl. And it was a really fun game! Had to look up hints for some stuff, though. 1 and 2 I thought were easy and short, except my computer was way faster than was required, so if I didn't have the movement turned WAY down, it took less than half a second for Graham to walk into some water somewhere and drown.  

KQ3 my sister beat, I didn't. Well, I was trying to mix the ingredients for one of the spells, and it wouldn't let me add the cactus, even though I knew it was needed. I figured it out later, but I had already lost interest and never got farther than walking down the mountain, that I can remember. By that time I had already played KQ6 which I LOVED as well.

KQ5 I finished once, I believe, but wasn't my favorite so I didn't play through it twice. I thought the owl was annoying. Although to this day my sister and I quote the whole water-nectar-of-the-gods line. Haha, we cracked up on that one everytime.

Played KQ8. like it OK for what it was, but it really was so different from 1-7 and didn't really include any of the traditional characters, so I didn't really consider it part of the same series. *I* wanted to know what happened to the royal family! Still, it's not like I have a death wish for Connor, lol!

First computer games I played was when I was, like, 5 and it was Packman and such. On those big, thin floppies, no less. The first one that made an impression was Chip's Challenge, and how I hate and loathe that game now! When I was 9 and I was really determined to beat it, and I did, but it was horrible, mind-numbing torture.   Ugh.

KQ9 was fun, but all the characters died and the puzzles were too easy and the graphics went back to 2D and the voices were way out of sync... oh wait, that was just a nightmare.

[dew7]

Okay, the first KQ game was on the IBM PCjr(not DOS). Has anyone here played it?

I have and I still have my dad's IBM PCjr which I plan to start up.  It has been in storage.  I hope to relive the glory days when I played KQ1 with my dad when I was somewhere between 5-9 years old.  :>

[Linnau]

My first King's Quest was KQ2. I was 15 then, playing it the same time with LSL1, SQ1 and PQ1.
Then I played KQ3, KQ4, KQ1 and over the years, all the rest by the correct order.
I think that 6 is my favourite, too But the first ones had their special charm.

[Petter Holmberg]

Guess what? King's Quest 1! I played them all in sequence! It really was a treat to see the family story evolve.

I bought the 15th Anniversary Edition, containing games 1-6 and lots of other goodies, and I was determined not to start on the next game in the series even if I got hopelessly stuck somewhere. Let me tell you: I'm VERY happy that I did. Actually, I played both versions of KQ1 in parallell because the puzzles in the original stumped me a lot. KQ2 was easy in comparison.

[Farquhar]

My first experience with King's Quest was KQ6. I was seven years old, and had never seen a game like it before. I still remember the first time I saw the opening movie, and was amazed by the graphics. It is probably my favorite KQ game.

[RAVEN]

my first one was KQ6 too, i loved , and i finished it without any guide or anything , just my sister by my side to help me out ,    two head thinks better than one...

[Rosella]

Someone has heard of Chip's Challenge!!! I love that game. It's happy. We named our GPS Melinda off it.

[Jafar]

Chip's Challenge? I love that game!
I actually have it on my computer now...