It's a good thing they won't be included with the official games, it would only cause confusion.

Yeah, the AGDI and Infamous Adventures' fan remakes one can download for free on their websites. Sierra's 1990 remake of King's Quest I and Space Quest I are much harder to come across. Not to mention it could add confusion. If I was unaware of the existence of the fan remakes and saw them on GOG, I could think those are GOG exclusives and I have to pay to play them whereas they're freeware.

On a side note, with the recent inclusion of the original Police Quest I, GOG selling both the originals and remakes of Quest For Glory I and Leisure Suit Larry, and the recent addition of the SVGA version of the sixth Larry game, I am very happy to see that GOG heard our plea and I am confident the missing remakes will be added on GOG eventually.

Thanks for your support during all these years, fellow Sierra fans! :>

Alternatively if GoG offered the fan games as separate free downloads they might cut into the sales of the official games. People looking at the pictures of technically superior games may not be interested in buying the older official games. Activision would essentially shooting themselves in the foot.

It would be shame they will be missing out on the stories as Roberta Williams intended (many Of the fan games take alot of liberties to characters and situations). Or even the fun of using the parser interfaces and seeing how the series evolved!

Bring this back to the top...

GOG, any update on including the KQ1 SCI remake yet?

When I first looked up King's Quest on GOG I was really glad to see that they had the original of the first King's Quest instead of the remake, as I personally prefer the original (although I am only actually playing through the King's Quest games for the first time now, this is just what I recall deciding from watching my sisters play), and when I got one of my sisters the physical copy of the King's Quest collection I was disappointed to see that it only offered the remake, instead of like the collection my family owns (I think it is an anniversary collection, something like that; includes some other Sierra games) which includes both.

However, after reading the original post, I really agree that even though I prefer the original, there are probably people who prefer the remake, and as the OP said there is a lot of difference with something like this between the original and the remake. And I don't like it when any old game dies out, so I agree that GOG should look at offering the remake of King's Quest 1 (and, of course, the other games you mentioned although I have never played them).

I'm mixed. I used to love the remake more, as it was the first version I played.

But now I tend to like the original more in some ways, in particular that it fits the continuity of later games a bit better. kQ3 and KQ3 never received official remakes and are both directly built off the original game. In particular Daventry in KQ3 is a mini version based on screens from the first game.

I think the fact that the novelization of KQ1 in the King's Quest Companion is based on the original game also makes me lean more towards it now.

Apple II's version's original soundtrack is nice as well.

That being said I still love the remake, I like the improved artwork, the atmosphere of darker more dense forest. I like the huge amount of added narration text, the extra characters added to the game, dramatic changes to some of the original characters, the music is great too. It has so many changes in a way it feels kinda like a reboot or reimagining in a way, but it's really well done.

So overall it's hard to say which I like better. It's probably about equal but there are features I like more for each one.

Also on this subject the Sega version is also alot of fun to play with its own set of differences.

GOG has the original version of I. As for V & VI the "original versions" would be both cdrom & floppy versions. I had the floppy version of V and playing the talkie version was painful. VI you can switch between voice & text in the in-game options. The floppy version has a different intro though.

edit: I see you found the Wishlist.

Sorry I meant the SCI remake of I (for completeness sake, as it's quite different)

I take back what I said before about the talkies

they make the game UNPLAYABLE. Cedric the owl, whilst being the worst kind of campy uncle reading to a classroom voice, sound like it's played by the same voice actor as Graham, making the first several minutes a mind breaking conversation between a man and himself talking like a lunatic. It's EXCRUTIATING.

I must have the original text version.

Disappointing as the other Sierra SCI games I've acquired DO have the option in the options menu.

edit: weird how I missed it in VI, previously. Apart from the opening, there are still some other differences like the different colored text boxes. I suppose nothing major.

If floppy was added for V (ABSOLUTELY NECESSARY), it could be added for VI whilst they're at it.

Several things I'd like to mention.

1. Technically the original KQ1 is the version for the PJjr. It's more or less like the PC AGI version that comes with this set. It however has some interesting differences, such that Graham is known as ''Grahame'' in all the text he is mentioned. There is a more exaggerated and silly death scene for Edward, they used the dragon's head in place of the alligators in the moat, among other things. Lots of crickets and other ambient sounds. It has an extra flash screen before the title giving the Sierra logo, and IBM logo.

2. The technically the floppy versions of both V and VI are the original versions of those games. Each came out a year before the Cd-Rom versions. At least with V the there are some big differences in script ("screenplay") and interface. Although yes they are based on the same engine.

3. For people not willing to wait or look to buy a copy of the KQ6 floppy version, the demo for KQ6 has the complete intro from the floppy version. You can find the demo on many sierra fan sites. That is pretty much the only difference between the floppy and cd-rom other than some cosmetic menu color differences, and maybe one or two lines of speech that are adlibbed differently than the text.

Actually it is the same actor Josh Mandel... Ironically, he is the only as far as I know professionally trained actor in the entire game. Although the direction he was forced to take was partly due to Roberta Williams.

Yes, I was forgetting that. They used the sale of the floppy versions to fund the voice acting if I'm not mistaken.

That sounds about right, and both with KQ5 and 6, you could 'upgrade' to the cd-rom versions for a reasonable fee (might have mainly covered shipping) if you wanted to. Interesting trivia KQ5 actually came in two seperate floppy versions, EGA and VGA. No idea why they didn't just incorporate a driver for both like they did in later games?

I'd argue that KQ5 cd-rom is a downgrade in some ways though!

I also prefer the floppy version of SQ4 to the cd-rom version... Although I think overall voice acting is slightly better in SQ4 (only slightly). But eh Galaxy Galleria was much better in the floppy version!

Cedric was voiced by Richard Aronson, not Josh Mandel. Egads, he was annoying.


EDIT: Also, the IBM PC/Jr/Tandy version of KQ1 is my favorite. I have the disk image mountable in dosbox so's I can play it anytime I want. I don't much like any of the remakes, official or fan-made. QFG1 VGA is fine, SQ1 VGA is okay, but PQ1 VGA and KQ1 SCI... I am not really a fan. I much prefer the originals. In fact, AGI and SCI0 games are my favorites. Weird but true.

Ya, you are right, its one of the harpies that Josh Mandel does in 'falsetto'.

I don't understand why GOG hasn't released these yet? I would really like to play the KQI remake. Has anyone contacted them and received a response?
I'm sure they could be easily grab from an abandon ware site but I don't do that.