Mystery House was the first game Roberta and Ken Williams made together, and the first adventure game with graphics. In the late 1970s, Ken Williams discovered Colossal Cave Adventure and played through it with his wife Roberta. Roberta…
Enchanted Scepters is an early Macintosh game, programmed by William C. Appleton and published by Silicon Beach Software in 1984. It’s also the first English-language point-and-click adventure game. (There are a couple of Japanese games,…
Colossal Cave Adventure, often just called Adventure, is generally considered the first adventure game. (Wikipedia puts it as the first “well-known” adventure game. Firsts are always a bit complicated.) It’s also the reason we call them…
Two complete playthroughs of The Colonel’s Bequest were not enough to satisfy me. I was determined to obtain the elusive Super Sleuth ranking, and I decided to do it as fast as I could. I started with spending some time carefully…
In the early 1990s, Sierra released remakes of several of their earlier games, using their new SCI engine that was first used for King’s Quest IV. SCI allowed for graphics at twice the resolution of their earlier AGI engine, enhanced…
Wizard and the Princess was created by Roberta and Ken Williams, and released for the Apple II in 1980. It was published by their company On-Line Systems, which would eventually become Sierra On-Line. Wizard and the Princess is a…
The Colonel’s Bequest was released in October 1989 for MS-DOS. It was written by Roberta Williams, directed by Roberta Williams and Chris Iden, and designed by Jacqueline Austin. Unlike most Sierra adventure games, it emphasizes…
My complete playthrough of the fourth King’s Quest game, with my wife unsecretcrush. This is part of a series where I play through every official King’s Quest game. This is the first time either of us had played this game. King’s…