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'''''King's Quest''''' was the very first animated graphical adventure game on the PC. Featuring a stunning 16 colors and genuine animation, the game showed off the cutting-edge abilities of IBM's 1984 hardware release, the [[IBM PC Jr|PCjr]]. It sold poorly until it was released for the Tandy 1000 almost a year later, when it established [[Sierra]] as the foremost developer of adventure games until the mid-1990s. The game used a [[Text Parser]] of the kind seen in earlier games, such as ''[[Zork]]''.
Today, the original ''King's Quest'' is regarded as a classic of the genre, having spawned seven official sequels, all improving in quality up until the eighth. A [[The Silver Lining (video game)|ninth game]], a [[Fan Sequel]], was in the works until a cease-and-desist letter was issued in 2005... and then rescinded. And then Activision [[Fanwork Ban|issued a new cease-and-desist letter]] in 2010. And then it was rescinded... again. ''[[The Silver Lining (video game)|The Silver Lining]]'' is currently being completed, with four of the five planned episodes already available at [http://www.tsl-game.com/ their website]. Different teams, such as [[AGD Interactive]] and Infamous Adventures, have also created fan remakes of the first three games, getting their controls and graphics up to the level of the popular fifth and sixth games. Find them [http://www.agdinteractive.com/games/games.html here] and [https://web.archive.org/web/20130312033807/http://www.infamous-adventures.com/kq3/index.php?page=downloads here].
A precursor to the series, ''[[Wizard and the Princess]]'', also known as ''Adventure in Serenia'', was made in 1980 by On-Line Systems, designed by Roberta and Ken Williams, the founders of what would [[Sierra|Sierra Entertainment]].
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