I used to play this at my cousin’s house. Probably almost 30 years ago. I watched through this whole thing with a sense of completion having seen all kinds of thing i never figured out long ago. Thanks for this. How weird that I cared enough to watch this, but I actually enjoyed it - I can die happy now 😂😂
This brings back memories. The anxiety of being caught by Mananan at any given time. The anxiety while walking down that mountain path the first time. The anxiety of facing the Medusa. The anxiety of possibly mistyping something while casting a spell in the cellar lab. Of course, those were different times, when creating or loading a savegame onto a floppy disk took roughly a minute......
Timing everything, running to hide your stuff, triple checking for typos, step step stepping sloooowly along the mountain, I loved this game but I agree it was so anxiety inducing lol
I remember being really clueless playing this game as a kid. It didn't help that it belonged to my brother and I had no idea where he kept the manual so I had no notion of how to do spells.
I remember trying to play this as a little kid and not being able to get anywhere with it. I’m so glad you’ve uploaded a play through - finally after all these years, I know how the story goes. There’s _no way_ I would’ve figured all that out on my own as a kid!
Yah same. This was very satisfying now after reading these comments I don’t just feel stupid like I was the only one who couldn’t figure it out. Me and my sister tried so hard !!
The worst part is that even if you do know exactly what to do (I never did) is that the length of the wizard's journey, and the order in which he has you do stuff can vary. It's entirely possible to simply not have time to gather everything.
@@Cuzjudd Sierra made extra money with their ‘tip’ lines, and later selling companion guides. Most games a player could stumble through it - this games internal timer and limited number of Manannan journeys made that almost impossible.
Had a copied floppy in the late 80s and got stumped with the spell book. Very clever of the programmers to put the actual spell book in the game's manual. I must have spent hours trying every command to read the spell book, re-exploring the house and the small countryside. I had no idea that this was a game that truly required the manual
You said late 80's, how comes you never got it in the mid 80's in 1986?? My cousin thought he would check the manual for clues before seeing it in one of them game magazines and also from some people posted it on Teletext!
played this on a Tandy 1000 colour growing up, never got past the castle and could never figure out how to walk down mountain. This video revealed all to me I never knew. The player never dumped the chamber pot though! The Tandy we had still turns on, but the DOS startup disk does not :(
My mother completed the game on my PC clone in 1986. It took her months. She was vey pleased with herself I remember. But she loved KQ3. I didn't have the patience to play it. She had started with KQ1, and KQ2, before. She ended up completing all the KQ's up to KQ4.
I bought this game for a friend of mine for his birthday when we were 12 or 13. His mother found out about the game and was not happy because of her religious beliefs. She said the fact that there was a wizard and magic spells in it made it blasphemous. She not only forbid my friend from playing it, she also threw it away. I was only 12 or 13 years old......I had spent my allowance on this......and she tossed it in the trash. I was upset, to say the least.
This game was so hard as a kid. Even with a hint book or manual I couldn't complete it. But I did turn the wizard into a cat, which felt like winning the game to me!! After he killed me so many times!
I remember playing this game before I got my EGA card. It was black and white and very difficult to see anything. I spent so much time playing this game and finally made it through. Thanks for the great walk-through!
Impressive. How in the WORLD did you just beat this entire uncompromising, impossible, evil game without even saving one time? You sir, are a champion.
I actually cried at the end of this game. LOL! When the next one came out I was choked because you required 512K to play it and my computer only had 256K. LMAO! I wish they would come out with games like this for iPad. I'd totally buy them all.
Ha! No kidding! As a kid leaving the house and walking down that curvy path was SUPER hard, let alone the rest of the game! Died so many times on that screen mainly cause of that blind spot where you couldn't see the path. I used to take FOREVER to get through that screen and I'd always save it right after lol.
I have the best memories playing these old Sierra Quest games. In this game, I remember I was stuck on the ship with the rats forever until I got my hands on the cheat guide.
This is my first time hearing the music this way… when I played this years ago, my old computer’s sound card only played one mono music channel at a time. It was charming but clunky… it’s nice to finally hear how it was meant to sound.
I didn't have the manual either. The atmosphere and design of the game was GENIUS, and it was probably designed as an insult to people who pirated the game (as I did), because ironically, if you pirated it you were trapped on the island in just the same was as Gwideon. The wizard is Sierra Games, the pirate is Gwideon
I had the manual. But I couldn't read that well. And on top of that, they misspelled one of the spells in it so I would never be able to beat the game anyway... without the hint guide.
Not bad, even I find that that it need a lot of magic spell preparing ingredients to manage the missions, However, I have enjoyed watching it, so thanks :)
**IDK HOW U MADE IT UP AND DOWN THAT MNTH WITHOUT FALLING!! THAT MOUNTAIN AND THE WIZARD WERE THE DEATHS OF THIS GAME** **OH AND... THE NASTY CAT IN THE STARWELL!!!**
Nice longplay man, good pace and flawess actions :) This is one of the most beautiful chapters and the saga starts to improve here. Love the story and the way it reconnects to previous chapters. Hated the spells part, but Manannan is an awesome character.
An absolute classic in its time and brings back so many memories. But unfortunately, the games graphics is so fcking bad to todays standards, you couldn't possibly attempt to play it and again expect to enjoy it much. Still, an absolute classic no doubt!
I love all these old King's Quest games, still break them out and play through them all the time. I have played the fan remakes of 1-3 and they're pretty cool. Did they ever get to or have plans to remake #4? Anyone know?
for those that never played these types of games, for every new area, your first action would always have to be " look around " and then read the description of the area to see if there's any clues of what you had to do next.
Yep. Each Sierra classic I knew I was in for at least 6 months of work. Loved it all though. Don't know how I managed to finish these games back then without having walkthroughs. That said we'd spend hours as a family trying to figure it out or use the correct word. Police Quest 2 was our hardest and were stuck for eons when searching Sonny's girlfriends apartment. Always wrote 'look at ashtray' and nothing. Probably about a year of replaying the game until we figured our 'look in ashtray'.
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Glad to hear someone else say this! I honestly feel it's the best one. It may have just been my age at the time, but I thought this had the best coherence between setup, story, tensions, logical puzzles. All tied together with the fact that we don't know who we are to begin with, and Manannan keeps us relatively confined to the house area until we begin to understand our situation better, and learn to grab and hide, and ultimately use magical items, to get free.
Omg I loved that game but it was ridiculously hard. No manual came with the copy I had, so I couldn’t beat it. I got about half way through it and I don’t even know how I did that.
+thesnare100 It's because there isn't a demand of these type of games any more. Or rather there isn't much of one. Video Game companies, like it or not, are businesses and as such must strive to make money in order to make games, and that means going with what the market says. I personally do not like shooters, but I can at least see that they are still in high demand, so of course they take priority.
thanks dad for putting my sis tied up for the dragon, oh and all of a sudden i know my real name??? i love the ads at the end too LOL thanks for u/l though but now im older i realize how f'd up this game is! lol
I never noticed it plays the song "Drunken Sailor" when you meet the pirates at the tavern. No wonder that became my favorite shanty on AC: Black Flag. 0:-) Loved these games! I just remember a lot more painful "hurry get back before Manananarama returns".
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I used to play this at my cousin’s house. Probably almost 30 years ago. I watched through this whole thing with a sense of completion having seen all kinds of thing i never figured out long ago. Thanks for this. How weird that I cared enough to watch this, but I actually enjoyed it - I can die happy now 😂😂
This brings back memories. The anxiety of being caught by Mananan at any given time. The anxiety while walking down that mountain path the first time. The anxiety of facing the Medusa. The anxiety of possibly mistyping something while casting a spell in the cellar lab. Of course, those were different times, when creating or loading a savegame onto a floppy disk took roughly a minute......
Timing everything, running to hide your stuff, triple checking for typos, step step stepping sloooowly along the mountain, I loved this game but I agree it was so anxiety inducing lol
It was especially frustrating early on, because I'd just feel like I was making progress and then Mananan would pop in and I'd be screwed.
We now all know where the Xanath series came from lol.
THat freakin' mountain! I always fall down... and you just breezed through it!
Terence Kaminaga
gotta use the diagonal keys too, & double tap the arrow so he takes 1 step at a time when walking on the treacherous trails.
My favorite game in the King's Quest series. Watching this brings back so many memories!
25:45 best part of the game. Such a feeling of accomplishment once you turn the wizard into a cat. That was like beating the game for me!!
Same here 😂 especially after those magic spells which could kill you if you make a typo
I remember being really clueless playing this game as a kid. It didn't help that it belonged to my brother and I had no idea where he kept the manual so I had no notion of how to do spells.
I remember trying to play this as a little kid and not being able to get anywhere with it. I’m so glad you’ve uploaded a play through - finally after all these years, I know how the story goes. There’s _no way_ I would’ve figured all that out on my own as a kid!
after 35 years you mean?
@@brahmoone More like 33 years.
Hahaha me too. Still i could not do it i guess...
Yah same. This was very satisfying now after reading these comments I don’t just feel stupid like I was the only one who couldn’t figure it out. Me and my sister tried so hard !!
I adore this game. It was incredibly difficult.
The worst part is that even if you do know exactly what to do (I never did) is that the length of the wizard's journey, and the order in which he has you do stuff can vary. It's entirely possible to simply not have time to gather everything.
That's why I hated it. It wasn't fun it was a chore
@@Ambaryerno shit game
@@darrinsiberia lol nobody could that's why hint books came out
How in the hell was anyone expected to figure all of that out? Thanks for posting this video, brought back some memories for sure!
It's the impossible game
@@Cuzjudd Sierra made extra money with their ‘tip’ lines, and later selling companion guides.
Most games a player could stumble through it - this games internal timer and limited number of Manannan journeys made that almost impossible.
Lol they had hint books for it like me
pretty much impossible
The Nostalgia!!! I spent hours upon hours trying to figure out this game! LOL!!
Was I the only one that kicked the wizard once he was turned into a cat.
We all did
My favorite out of all the King's Quest games.
Same here
Really? I fucking hated it
Omg this has taken me back to my childhood!! I need to show my kids hahah
Definitely my favorite of the kings quests, from back in the day.
Had a copied floppy in the late 80s and got stumped with the spell book. Very clever of the programmers to put the actual spell book in the game's manual. I must have spent hours trying every command to read the spell book, re-exploring the house and the small countryside. I had no idea that this was a game that truly required the manual
You said late 80's, how comes you never got it in the mid 80's in 1986??
My cousin thought he would check the manual for clues before seeing it in one of them game magazines and also from some people posted it on Teletext!
Also getting the hintbook always helped. I still remember having to use that marker plenty of times over the years for different games lol.
“Gwydion, empty my chamber pot!” (Toilet) LOL
That was one of the only things I ever figured out how to do
Where?
Those poor bears... you break into their house, steal their food, ransack their drawers, take their things, and then trample their garden.
Love this game. Tandy 1000 style
LOL! Tandy 1000 TL - 16 color monitor!
+Jonathan E. Smith
I still have a functioning Tandy 1000 HX, with the KQ series 1-5, LOL.
played this on a Tandy 1000 colour growing up, never got past the castle and could never figure out how to walk down mountain. This video revealed all to me I never knew. The player never dumped the chamber pot though! The Tandy we had still turns on, but the DOS startup disk does not :(
Literally would call dudes at radio shack for gameplay tips. Best memory ever
I remember the CAT killing me in the basement... If you collide with him on the steps, you fall.
My mother completed the game on my PC clone in 1986. It took her months. She was vey pleased with herself I remember. But she loved KQ3. I didn't have the patience to play it. She had started with KQ1, and KQ2, before. She ended up completing all the KQ's up to KQ4.
I remember my sister would fall off the ledge, then she accidentally saved it.
Sitting here at 43 and never knowing just how much I missed on this game lol. Took me forever to remember the name and search it
Me too. Finally found it . I couldn’t even remember the name
I bought this game for a friend of mine for his birthday when we were 12 or 13. His mother found out about the game and was not happy because of her religious beliefs. She said the fact that there was a wizard and magic spells in it made it blasphemous. She not only forbid my friend from playing it, she also threw it away. I was only 12 or 13 years old......I had spent my allowance on this......and she tossed it in the trash. I was upset, to say the least.
+ShootAndSpin What a stupid bitch!
JStryker47 I was definitely miffed. LOL
strangely had the exact same bullshit with my parents
Yeah, okay.
Lol, where the hell do you live? Saudi Arabia?
This game was so hard as a kid. Even with a hint book or manual I couldn't complete it. But I did turn the wizard into a cat, which felt like winning the game to me!! After he killed me so many times!
I remember playing this game before I got my EGA card. It was black and white and very difficult to see anything. I spent so much time playing this game and finally made it through. Thanks for the great walk-through!
those king's quest intro musics are just beautiful lol
Impressive. How in the WORLD did you just beat this entire uncompromising, impossible, evil game without even saving one time? You sir, are a champion.
^^^^ i know right.... played the game without saving ...
hudsonvalleyguy1 A fellow child of upstate IBM?
dobravery never worked for IBM...NOR AM I A ""CHILD""
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I'm sure I saved the game after I did absolutely anything, grab and item (save), not fall off somewhere (save) etc.
WHERE???? WHERE DID YOU """SAVE""???...
I actually cried at the end of this game. LOL! When the next one came out I was choked because you required 512K to play it and my computer only had 256K. LMAO! I wish they would come out with games like this for iPad. I'd totally buy them all.
That mountain. The ultimate rage quit of the 80s.
One of my favorites like Oregon trail
the music is nostalgia to me. feels good.
First Sierra game ever played. First game to buy hint book :D
Ha! No kidding! As a kid leaving the house and walking down that curvy path was SUPER hard, let alone the rest of the game! Died so many times on that screen mainly cause of that blind spot where you couldn't see the path. I used to take FOREVER to get through that screen and I'd always save it right after lol.
Shit game
Back in 1986, 10yr old me never finished this one. Love these punches in the nostalgia feels. :)
The noobs of today would get nowhere in this 😂
I have the best memories playing these old Sierra Quest games. In this game, I remember I was stuck on the ship with the rats forever until I got my hands on the cheat guide.
"Gwydion!! Why did you only sweep one side of the kitchen??"
Manannan was absolutely horrifying as an 8-year-old kid.
My childhood..plus all the other sierra games...miss those days..I was so thrilled to get King's Quest 4
People watching this game play now will never know exactly how easy it was to die while walking on trails, stairs, ladders, etc…
I beg to differ I grew up and played ALL Sierra games, Kings quest 4 was a fav for some reason
So true.
10:38
I was hearing Gruntildas lair from banjo kazooie
That wizard scared the living shit outta me
This is my first time hearing the music this way… when I played this years ago, my old computer’s sound card only played one mono music channel at a time. It was charming but clunky… it’s nice to finally hear how it was meant to sound.
Oh remember this like yesterday, Was really hard as a child, didnt know many english words to begin with :) And pc's were really expensive and rare...
awesome game. i bought this when i was a kid.
This one was so freakin' hard...
Very interesting times
27:17, moving around as a fly reminds me of Space Quest 5, when Roger also gets transmuted
I was afraid of the wizard all the time...🥶😱🧙🏻♂️
Little unorthodox to play it in filtered mode isn't it? :) Surely true pixel is the way to go!!
One of my favorite games ever! :)
Graham still has yellow skin in this game. 42:35 I’ve never noticed that before. Everyone else has pink skin, but Graham is still yellow.
Leisure Suit Larry, PG-13??????? 44:38
so all i needed was manual...so i can cast spells...but still this is one of my favorite childhood games
I didn't have the manual either. The atmosphere and design of the game was GENIUS, and it was probably designed as an insult to people who pirated the game (as I did), because ironically, if you pirated it you were trapped on the island in just the same was as Gwideon. The wizard is Sierra Games, the pirate is Gwideon
I had the manual. But I couldn't read that well. And on top of that, they misspelled one of the spells in it so I would never be able to beat the game anyway... without the hint guide.
Agreed, the spells were impossible without a manual or hint book!!
Not bad, even I find that that it need a lot of magic spell preparing ingredients to manage the missions, However, I have enjoyed watching it, so thanks :)
where is the in-game clock? You need that to know how long the wizard will be gone (unless you read it somewhere else)
I don't think the EGA version had a game clock. You just had to know the sequence of events.
Absolute worst of Sierra
@@Cuzjudd lucas >>>> sierra
I remember when this came out and thought how, "Wow, this has nothing to do with King Graham", but then we got to the end :)
**IDK HOW U MADE IT UP AND DOWN THAT MNTH WITHOUT FALLING!! THAT MOUNTAIN AND THE WIZARD WERE THE DEATHS OF THIS GAME**
**OH AND... THE NASTY CAT IN THE STARWELL!!!**
Nice longplay man, good pace and flawess actions :)
This is one of the most beautiful chapters and the saga starts to improve here.
Love the story and the way it reconnects to previous chapters. Hated the spells part, but Manannan is an awesome character.
Maravillosos recuerdos. que nostalgia. lloro de alegria
**THE FEAR OF DEATH/DYING IN THIS GAME ARE:
THE MOUNTAIN MAZE, THE WIZARD, THE CAT IN THE BASEMENT STEPS, (AND OTHER NON TRIVIAL METHODS)**
An absolute classic in its time and brings back so many memories. But unfortunately, the games graphics is so fcking bad to todays standards, you couldn't possibly attempt to play it and again expect to enjoy it much. Still, an absolute classic no doubt!
There's an authorized remake of this game, and it's FREE. Worth playing.
Where ?
****34:05** THE CAPTIN IS AT THE TABLE, SOON AS U GIVE GOLD.. ""BOOM"" TYHEY ARE GONE, LIKE MAGIC... WTF????**
I could never escape the house at the beginning of the game. I mean, I could LEAVE, but I could never figure out how to deal with the Wizard.
Did you have the manual with the spells in it?
All the feels. All the nostalgia.
The animation in this is superb considering its age!
Did everyone see Half Dome in the background at 38:06?
Ha! Yes!
Came here after playing the new reboot. Gotta say this is a nice series
This game is beautiful IMHO.
I love all these old King's Quest games, still break them out and play through them all the time. I have played the fan remakes of 1-3 and they're pretty cool. Did they ever get to or have plans to remake #4? Anyone know?
My childhood
All these years .. I never made it very far in the game and I never knew the whole point was to save the sister and return to the kingdom
I had the hint book for this one... Otherwise it was impossible to beat! The spells were so damn hard.
for those that never played these types of games, for every new area, your first action would always have to be " look around " and then read the description of the area to see if there's any clues of what you had to do next.
Omfg major flashback aging this on our Tandy computer!
Wizard gave me nightmares as a kid...
Somehow he's just carrying a bowl around.
0:37 I did not remember it was sounding polyphony on this section of the song. what madness..?? what version is this..??
MPOEROT Tandy probably.
The hardest part about that game was the walk down the path. Such a struggle!
LOL! Took me four years and you forty minutes!🤣🤣🤣
Yep. Each Sierra classic I knew I was in for at least 6 months of work. Loved it all though. Don't know how I managed to finish these games back then without having walkthroughs. That said we'd spend hours as a family trying to figure it out or use the correct word.
Police Quest 2 was our hardest and were stuck for eons when searching Sonny's girlfriends apartment. Always wrote 'look at ashtray' and nothing. Probably about a year of replaying the game until we figured our 'look in ashtray'.
He has probably played it a 100 times.
This video was edited, most likely to avoid needless waiting (esp. on the boat or waiting for the wizard) and to avoid any deaths.
great
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How in the BLUE HELL were you supposed to remember all these damn spells and their ingredients??? This is why I never beat 3 w/o cheating.
The game came with a booklet that had the spells.
If you weren't a dirty pirate you just had to use the manual, as sha11235 said. Ahead of it's time, somewhat.
@@kuangsheng3891 alas we got the game from my cousin and it was pirated, we were forever stuck in the castle
Love the comments
That opening music is heavy duty nostalgia
41:57 Nice Smurfs tease.
The memories of going down that mountain and getting lost in the desert
Thanks for playthrough!
This was the best kings quest right? I always thought so...
Glad to hear someone else say this! I honestly feel it's the best one. It may have just been my age at the time, but I thought this had the best coherence between setup, story, tensions, logical puzzles. All tied together with the fact that we don't know who we are to begin with, and Manannan keeps us relatively confined to the house area until we begin to understand our situation better, and learn to grab and hide, and ultimately use magical items, to get free.
IV and V were the best. 3 is very good, though.
Omg I loved that game but it was ridiculously hard. No manual came with the copy I had, so I couldn’t beat it. I got about half way through it and I don’t even know how I did that.
You forgot to kick the cat! Very important part of the game.
Why don't they make adventure/puzzle games like this anymore, is it because people prefer shooters instead, or so I heard.
thesnare100 because companies started making nothing but fps and strat games.
thesnare100 because companies started making nothing but fps and strat games.
+thesnare100
It's because there isn't a demand of these type of games any more. Or rather there isn't much of one. Video Game companies, like it or not, are businesses and as such must strive to make money in order to make games, and that means going with what the market says. I personally do not like shooters, but I can at least see that they are still in high demand, so of course they take priority.
thesnare100 That's really the gist of it. There are games made like this, but supply and demand.
thanks dad for putting my sis tied up for the dragon, oh and all of a sudden i know my real name??? i love the ads at the end too LOL thanks for u/l though but now im older i realize how f'd up this game is! lol
I think this is the earliest game I've seen with breast jiggle "physics". Wow.
One of the devs is Al Lowe, so... yeah.
@@ovalteen4404 He helped make Leisure Suit Larry, if I'm not mistaken.
I remember my brother playing this years ago
41:57 wait, did they copy the intro song from The Smurfs cartoon?
Going up and down that mountain was the most stressful moments of my childhood LOL
Yes 😂😂
Doing the spells was the coolest part of the game lol
how did u get wizard to only appear once? hacks?
I never noticed it plays the song "Drunken Sailor" when you meet the pirates at the tavern. No wonder that became my favorite shanty on AC: Black Flag. 0:-)
Loved these games! I just remember a lot more painful "hurry get back before Manananarama returns".