| King's Quest: Quest For The Crown SCI Remake | Sierra Entertainment | 1990 | |
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This is a complete reworking of the original King's Quest, using Sierra's
16-color SCI (Sierra Creative Interpreter) engine. In celebration of their
10 years as a successful computer entertainment company, it was decided in
1989 that Sierra On-Line should make new, enhanced versions of the first
games in their five most popular game franchises: King's Quest, Space Quest,
Leisure Suit Larry, Police Quest and Quest for Glory. They would all use the
new SCI system and the enhanced looks and sounds of the new versions would
show how much tecnology had improved over the years. Graphics were remade,
and new music was added. Being the first of the remade Sierra classics, this
game was the only one to be made in 16 colors. All other remakes used SCI
Version 1 (introduced in KG5) which allowed hand-painted 256-color backgrounds.
However, it turned out that Sierra had greatly miscalculated how the market
would receive these games. Every single one of them flopped. It turned out
that the people who loved the original versions didn't like the new ones
because they didn't have the same feeling to them, and the people who had
never played the originals weren't impressed by the old-style gameplay and
the simplicity in the storyline. They were heavily critizised in most reviews
and many people compared the release of these games to the coloring of
classic black and white films: It was simply not an improvement at all, and
it was much more rewarding to watch the original, "accurate" version.
Also see: #King's Quest VGA Fan Remake |
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