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{{quote|''If I have learned anything in my life, I have learned this: When in doubt, or in trouble, pick up anything that is not nailed down, and if it is, look for loose nails or boards. Check carefully into, under, above, below, and behind things. Read everything; you might learn something. Wear clean undergarments, brush after meals, and always remember: nothing is as it appears.''|'''Advice from King Graham's father Sir Hereward''' }}
''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 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 ''[[
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 (
In February 2011, [[Telltale Games]] announced that it would be creating an episodic reboot of the ''King's Quest'' series.
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* '''Games'''
** ''[[King's Quest I
** ''[[King's Quest II
** ''[[King's Quest III
** ''[[King's Quest IV
** ''[[King's Quest V
** ''[[King's Quest VI
** ''[[King's Quest VII
** ''[[
* '''[[King's Quest (
** ''[[
** ''[[Literature/Kings Quest Kingdom Of Sorrow|Kings Quest Kingdom Of Sorrow]]''
** ''[[Literature/Kings Quest See No Weevil|Kings Quest See No Weevil]]''
Has a work-in-progress [[King's Quest
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=== Tropes include: ===
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* [[Catch Phrase]]: You'll typically hear some variation of, "Perhaps you can find a use for it," throughout the series as the royal family of Daventry collect items.
* [[Chaos Architecture]]: Justified, explained, and averted. The game worlds have almost ''nothing'' in common with each other...but that's because they don't even take place in the same countries. Part of Daventry is only briefly explorable in ''III'', but it looks like the area in ''I'' and seen in the intros of the first two games.
** A ''very'' clever aversion comes in ''[[The Silver Lining (
** Played straight in ''Mask of Eternity'' though. At least the Daventry portion of it. The land of the dead doesn't even ''look'' like it does in ''VI''. ([[Fridge Brilliance|Presumably because Connor isn't in the same spot as Alexander was in]].)
* [[Changing of the Guard]]
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** Edgar is a [[Distressed Dude]] in his games.
* [[Drop in Nemesis]]: Several.
* [[Everything's Better
* [[Evil Sorcerer]]: The Society of the Black Cloak.
* [[Expanded Universe]]: Three [[Tie-in Novel|Tie-In Novels]] and [[Novelization|Novelizations]] of the games in the Player's Guide.
* [[Fairy Tale]]: The series' principal source of inspiration. Dozens of familiar fairy-tale characters and situations are used or referenced throughout the franchise.
* [[Fan Remake]]: The first three games have been remade to give them updated interfaces and graphics (the third even getting two remakes by two different teams), the fourth may or may not be still in progress by yet another team, and the [http://www.textadventures.co.uk/review.php?game=112 fifth was remade into a text adventure].
* [[Fan Sequel]]: Several, of varying quality. There are the action-oriented [http://hydra78.tripod.com/king.htm King's Quest ZZT and ZZT2]. There's also the highly odd [http://www.angelfire.com/games5/intermezzosoftware/ King's Quest 2¼: Breast Intentions]. A much-hyped the "ninth game," titled ''[[The Silver Lining (
* [[Fantasy Kitchen Sink]]: The series mixes creatures, plots and stories from [[Classical Mythology]], ''[[
* [[Genie in
* [[Genre Savvy]]: If you know your away around fairy tales and myths, you'll have a much easier time solving many of the games' puzzles. Important caveat: villains are sometimes quite [[Dangerously Genre Savvy|savvy themselves]], and many fairy tale tropes are played with in different manner, so you may find out [[Wrong Genre Savvy|it's the wrong genre after all]]. In this case, be sure to [[Have a Nice Death]].
* [[Ghibli Hills]]: Wilderness, in each game.
* [[Girl in
* [[Grave Humor]]
* [[Guide Dang It]]: It's a Sierra series. That's really all you need to know.
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* [[Have a Nice Death]]
* [[Hyperspace Arsenal]]: All of them. In ''KQV'', Graham pulls out a ''sled'' that he's been carrying around. Just in case...
* [[King
* [[Kleptomaniac Hero]]: With a notable subversion in the first game.
* [[Legion of Doom]]: The Black Cloak Society wasn't designed as a way to link all of the series' villains together...but at least three antagonists (Manannan, Mordack, Alhazred) are explicitly stated to be members, and it's entirely possible that ''all'' of the series' antagonists could have been members or allies. Note that this is based on a single throwaway line in the sixth game, that none of the antagonists other than these are ever stated to be related, and that [[Word of God]] denies this. Still, it's a popular fan theory.
* [[Magic
* [[Magic Mirror]]
* [[The Maze]]: Several, always infuriating.
* [[Mercy Rewarded]]: Several.
* [[Modest Royalty]]: In all games but the first and the last, the protagonist(s) is (are) a member of royal family. However, they wear very modest clothing (e.g., Graham in ''KQII'' and ''V'', Rosella in ''KQIV''), have none of the haughtiness usually associated with royalty and never use it to solve problems or push around other people.
* [[Mood Whiplash]]: While the games have never taken themselves ''too'' seriously, the cartoony ''King's Quest VII'' was a drastic change in style. And then it went right to the other extreme of [[Warhammer 40000
* [[Names to Run Away From Really Fast]]: Several throughout the series.
** Hagatha in ''KQII''
** [[
** Malicia in ''KQVII''
* [[Neutral Female]]: Subverted in ''King's Quest VI''.
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"''Dying'' for a drink, Graham?" }}
* [[Royals Who Actually Do Something]]: Goes back to back with [[Modest Royalty]].
* [[Shout
** ''[[The Princess Bride (
** Also ''[[Romancing the Stone|Romancing The Throne]]''.
** The desert temple in ''KQV'' is one big 'hello' to ''[[
* [[Standard Hero Reward]] : Played completely straight in the second and sixth games. But when it comes to Rosella in the fourth and seventh, this goes to [[Zig
* [[Sibling Yin-Yang]]: Rosella is a blonde, fair-skinned, extroverted [[Spoiled Sweet]] [[Genki Girl]] [[Action Girl]] who tends to take after her mother in looks and her father in personality. Alexander is black-haired and medium-skinned, is more self-depreciating, soft-spoken and reserved, and bookish, and takes more after his father in looks and mother in personality.
* [[Spiritual Successor]]: ''[[A Tale of Two Kingdoms]]'', which started off as "King's Quest 2.5", but after considering the threat of a cease-and-desist order, rewrote its plot to remove the KQ characters. The atmosphere of fairy tales is still intact, though.
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** ''KQVI'', {{spoiler|Alexander kills the Minotaur}}.
* [[Tie-in Novel]]: Three of them, but they aren't very well known, even among fans.
* [[Troperrific]]: Just about ''every'' fairy tale trope was [[Zig
* [[Unto Us a Son
* [[Unwinnable]]: Too many parts to count, though ''King's Quest V'' has the highest amount in the series; the developers seem to have actively enjoyed creating scenarios that lead to unwinnable files. This was averted by the seventh game or so.
** ''King's Quest VI'' did cut down on them a bit. ''King's Quest VII'' went further, and had no way to be rendered unwinnable. Even if you forgot to get the flower in an early chapter that's needed at the end, an identical one is up for grabs at the end.
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