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* [[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 [https://web.archive.org/web/20020422231926/http://hydra78.tripod.com/king.htm King's Quest ZZT and ZZT2]. There's also the highly odd [https://web.archive.org/web/20090130050122/http://www.angelfire.com/games5/intermezzosoftware/ King's Quest 2¼: Breast Intentions]. A much-hyped the "ninth game," titled ''[[The Silver Lining (video game)|The Silver Lining]]'', with full voice-acting and 3-D graphics, underwent legal battles for years. Now the Cease and Desist order has been rescinded, meaning that [http://www.tsl-game.com/ The Silver Lining has been released]! And then there's [[Spiritual Successor]] [[A Tale of Two Kingdoms]].
* [[Fantasy Kitchen Sink]]: The series mixes creatures, plots and stories from [[Classical Mythology]], ''[[Arabian Nights]]'', traditional fairy tales, [[High Fantasy]] and whatnot. Take ''King's Quest VI'', for instance: it's got Druids, Grecian [[Winged Humanoid|Winged Humanoids]], [[Alice in Wonderland|Lewis Carrol-esque whatizits]], genies and many others inhabiting the same chain of islands. [[Justified Trope|Justified by the creators]]: the [[All There in the Manual|supplementary material]] implies that Daventry is at the crossroads of reality and imagination, and [[All Myths Are True|all fairy tales are true there]].
* [[Genie in a Bottle]]: Several.
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