KING'S QUEST IV (SCI Version) Adventure Game Gameplay Walkthrough - No Commentary Playthrough
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- KING'S QUEST IV: THE PERILS OF ROSELLA (SCI Version) Adventure Game Gameplay Walkthrough - No Commentary Playthrough
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An absolutely flawless playthrough. No mistakes, good pace, enough time to read the texts. Absolutely perfect.
And many thanks for playing through, so I didn't have to. :)
I remember playing this in middle school (now 41 years old). Roberta and Ken Williams are amazing to me.
Yup. I’m the same age. I played this, hero’s quest, Space Quest and Police Quest
1st Kings Quest I ever played on a Tandy 1000 as a kid. I remember we had to upgrade the memory to play this.
Too funny. This response mirrors me 100%. I can't believe I just sat here and watched this video from beginning to end!
These games, along with the old MicroProse games like Railroad Tycoon were what got me into playing games on the computer. I had a Tandy 1000 as well and then a Tandy Sensation they were both from Radio Shack.
Mine didn’t have to have an upgrade to play it
I also played this on a Tandy 100ex. I believe it had 6 disks that you had to continuously swap out as you played the game
I remember that it would tell you to look up a certain word on a certain page in the user manual.
This is my favourite King's Quest! But man, was it hard. It took me a long time to finish this one. Thank you for the playthrough. It was a nice walk down memory lane. Oh and good job on the stairs and ledges without falling off! I fell constantly. Ha!
+Christine Kopec I have the old King's Quest Collection that doesn't work on my new computer but I just discovered DosBox so I can now play all those old games. I have recently just beat games 1-3 now I'm on to this game, this one is so cool, I love it.
Do you guys remember the old hint books they sold for these games? They came with some kind of magic yellow marker that you would use to reveal the puzzle solutions in the book.
The whale had me writing an actual letter to Sierra for help. They responded.
What a blast from the past this is. First video game I ever played, Police quest too, difficult games for me when I was five years old. My grandfather had them and even he couldn't beat them. Watching this makes me realize how easy it was.
"Tickle uvula with feather"…. my poor 8 yr old self never got past that part lol
Please insert disk 45 - lol
"You can't do that here."
I had to buy a cheat book.
Uh same. Came here to find if there was some secret spot in the mouth I was missing
Me too! I had to mail Sierra’s hint team through snail mail! Who else had to do that?
Aww... Those days before video game walkthrough guide books.
Then there was the internet.
Now, we have RUclips.
I wouldn't have been able to A-S-C-E-N-D in KQVI without the book that came with the game/collection.
omfg this was the game that got me into games on the computer. They had it at my school on our IBM's and we could go play on at lunchtime if we signed up. Then my parents bought me a Tandy eventually.
I fell in love with Sierra games thanks to this one. I actually have a signed photo from Roberta Williams to this day. I was a huge fan of King's Quest, The Colonel's Bequest, Hero's Quest, Space Quest and Police Quest. Best games of my childhood, and taught me to type!!
I remember when this came out and how amazing the screen shots looked on the back of the box. And, of course, female protagonist. Made great use of new sound card too. A lot of firsts with this game.
This game taught me how to spell cupboard. And probably a lot of other things, besides.
faridjabba he means how to spell the word cupboard
Wow, over thirty years after playing this, I never knew about the Roland MT-32 midi music! They were VERY expensive in 1988, so probably now many people had them. The sound is fantastic. Like CD quality.
It was the first Game that used it, my brother bought one last year and he found a list in the Internet that only 1.200 units sold in the first year 1988 worldwide. If you imagine the effort to programming this in the game only for a few people can use this. I only emulated the sound on my PC , it needs 1,1 GByte permanatly of my free memory space but it's very nice to play old games in this quality.But i know only 18 games who used the Roland MT-32. Sorry i 'm german, my english is not perfect.
THIS IS THE BEST GAME IN THE ENTIRE WORLD
This was my first adventure game ever! Lol
This....Spacequest and Hero's Quest were the games that turned me onto gaming. Love Sierra for making so many amazing worlds!
King's Quest 1: Sir Graham becomes King of Daventry.
King's Quest 2: King Graham finds and marries a maiden. They have a son and daughter..
King's Quest 3: Their son Prince Alexander escapes from an evil wizard and rescues his sister.
King's Quest 4: His sister Princess Rosella rescues their father King Graham.
King's Quest 5: King Graham rescues the kingdom and his two children from an evil wizard.
King's Quest 6: Prince Alexander rescues and marries Princess Cassima and restores her parents to power.
King's Quest 7: Princess Rosella falls into a rabbit hole and is rescued by Queen Valanice.
James McLoad Not a magician, a wizard named mordack. The brother of the Wizard Manannan.
Changed
King's Quest 6: Prince Alexander rescues and marries Princess Cassima and restores HER parents to power.
Mark Tyree
Changed as well.
You forgot King's Quest VIII : Mask of Eternity. A farmer save Daventry equilibrum
by getting back the mask pieces.
First played this at the tender age of five, my first ever computer game. I've loved adventure and RPG games ever since. You had to spell every word correctly, too. I had to ask someone how to spell "bridge" so I could look under it, lol. Educational! Other words I learned: "doozy" "blanch" "peasant" "virtuoso" "henchmen" "noxious" I remember I took my time exploring, trying to pick up objects that weren't meant to be picked up; climb trees that weren't meant to be climbed. I wanted to see the rest of Genesta's palace. Curious about everything. The game was so hard we had to buy a cheat book! I miss having the time to do nothing but play. This game has a special place in my heart.
Ahhh I'm well happy I've managed to find this!! Brings back brilliant memories of playing this as a kid on my Uncles Atari ST!
I love the King's Quest games, started with the first one in 84 and never looked back. But in those first few years of King's Quest 1-3 I had to play them at my cousins or a friends house it wasn't until around this game when my family finally got a computer so this was one of the first games I got . So much fun. King's Quest 1-6 are legendary to me.
A female lead in an adventure game, and in the end, she doesn’t take the prince’s hand in marriage. Very progressive for the time - I love it!
The real perils of Rosella were where she was going to put all the items in that peasant's gown. Seriously, this was the first computer game I ever played and I still love it to this day. Although this walkthrough kinda speeds through a lot of it. I constantly fell down off cliffs and down the stairs in the castle. It also took hours on my old 386 for Genesta to fly down to me or for the goons to drop me off at the bottom of the cliff. But I still loved it. And the pixel art still evokes a fun sense of nostalgia for me.
Oh my god...the nostalgia I remember thinking as a little girl Rosella was beautiful LOL.
What a wonderful story. This one is my favorite. Of the first 4 at least.
The funky graphics were part of their charm.
@Joe Johnson No kidding. This was cutting edge. I think the two EGA Quest for Glory games had a SLIGHT edge, tho.
@@Ambaryerno the graphics on both of these games were sublime. So was and still is the gameplay....
I remember this so well. I too did it on a Tandy 1000 EX. I'm so glad you post these, especially without commentary. So many skipped college classes so I could play these. As I recall, the tombstones had some clever sayings on them.
Even between KGIII and IV there was quite an impressive (for the day) leap forward in the graphics.
Such wonderful memories. I don't think I ever managed to beat this as a kid - I have no idea how I got as far as I did though. Thanks for the recording.
It's refreshing to have a female protagonist in the series. Thanks for the upload =)
Because lord knows what you have between your legs is all that matters when it comes to characters. That's the only way in which we can relate to them. BTW, you do realize who created king's quest, right? A woman.
“Here, kids- use this hat to go on life-threatening quests of your own.”
He says, throwing it at his two kids
You're saying you don't raise your kids the same way?
Your progeny will not survive the winter.
Had a Tandy 1000SX and Tandy Joystick and played most all of the Kings Quest games on it, the Police Quest series, and Space Quest series. I'd give anything to have that computer back (and the sea of floppy discs) and to experience that again. Such good memories.
Ahhhh, memories. It took forever to figure out what to do in this game.
This game should be called "King's quest IV: Doing random stuff to solve puzzles without the game hinting anything at all". Alternatively, "King's Quest IV: Gravedigging"
Unlike most players they just skip the dialogue in just 3 seconds, so we have to be fast on the pause button.
I'm thankful for this video, I plan to buy the later sequals (windows 7 compatible versions). Watching these videos gives me a heads up and a better sense of direction with the suroundings of the world I'm going to explore soon.
Played on a 386SX 16 Mhz with 2Mb RAM and 20Mb hard drive. I had to borrow money from the bank to buy the machine.
Thank you so much for allowing me to relive a simpler time in my life.
Thanks for sharing! Brings back lots of memories. I love the King's Quest series, and this one had great VGA graphics at the time!
I hope Edgar returns in a future title (I'm watching all of these in order even though these are really really old games)
+Cyber Robert If I remember right he does actually return in a later title and gets himself a happy ending with Rosella :).
+Cyber Robert He is the son of Titania and Oberon in KQVII.
He's also in The Silver Lining
The kings quest series took huge leaps in between sequels graphics wise, the games today the improvement in between sequels is far more subtle.
Randomly remembered this game today and was so happy to see this walkthrough. It really takes me back. I remember playing this as a kid and I also remember that I about never got past that whale part. So glad to see the rest of the game that I never saw back when I was a kid. :)
OkGoGirl82 Did you hear about the new King's Quest game coming out this fall?
My fav KQ chapter. It's the most "fairy" chapter, it makes you feel playin in heaven with a strawberry flavour in your mouth. The environment is so charming, the haunted house reminds me to the Hammer movies. Characters, items and puzzles are so fitting. There's some really infamous riddle here and there, but that's typical for a Sierra's old adventure. The bridle issue was a nightmare (you had to write look down or look ground, otherwise you had no chance to find it). The saga begun to went down after this chapter. Anyway, Sierra's games will live forever as classics.
CttPla Did you hear about the new King's Quest game coming out this fall?
I'm that one kid who has this as my first game ever.
I was 3 years old when I was taught by my grandpa how to use the computer.
Now Im 15 and I still remember my childhood.
God I wanna play this again.
54:35 And Roberta Williams herself come to say the good ending :)
The BEST King's Quest game of all!!
Great job recording this. The necessary readings are there long enough and the slow movements have been sped up just enough to keep it interesting. I hadn't played this since the 80's and have long since lost the necessary help book for all the clues that don't exist. This was a fun walk thru memory lane. Ruben: I suspect the good music was obtained by choosing IBM Compatible Internal Speaker and then playing through DOS BOX. By doing this music won't play on my DOS system, but it sounds great in DOSBOX.
Have my Roland MT-32 connected to my PC via a USB to MIDI cable. DOS box works great! :)
The graphics look really great here and the music sounds crisp!! Thanks for playing my favorite game of all time :)
Beautiful story, graphics and music.
I had played a lot of these older DOS games without external speakers as well. I think this game was one of them
that organ sheet music rocks!
I got this game at the time I got my first PC. I didn't even have a sound card, so the music was very basic. Even though I had an NES I was completely captivated by this game, and it kept me glued to my PC for hours. I died over and over again.....but I still loved it. Thanks for posting this.
ShootAndSpin Did you hear about the new King's Quest game coming out this fall?
Ry Nicotera
I did. I'm looking forward to it. The previews I've seen make it look more action-based, so I'm hoping it retains some of its old "charm".
With a Roland MT-32 back in the days. Oh, this was great...
My brother bought one last year, and he found a list in the Internet that only 1.200 units sold in the year 1988 worldwide. If you imagine the efford to programm this in the game only for a few people. I only emulated the sound on my PC it needs 1.1 GByte of my free memory space but it's well to play old games so. I'm german, sorry for my english.
I've been watching people play kings quest in kind of a strange order.
First I was introduced to it by the newest game with old Graham talking to Gwendolyn.
Then I watched kings quest 5, then 6 now this, afterwards I will watch 7 then 3 then 1.
Then 2
Nice music! Much better than my PC speaker squeaks that I remember.
One of my favorites in the best series ever made!!
Excellent story, excellent video without wasting time, thanks :-)
I played this on the Apple IIGS. 26:24 That stupid bridle in the wrecked boat! I remember typing "look ground" while standing in there and it said there was nothing there. So I moved on... I was stuck so I eventually had to look up a tip and realized I just wasn't standing in the exact correct spot!
Also, some adult observations: Genesta, you emotional manipulator! That light in the house's tower to the piano never seems to stop burning. Good god, there are a lot of diamonds in that mine. Who the hell are they selling them to? Wow, this fisherman is, uh, astoundingly unimpressed by a bag full of diamonds. Maybe the dwarves have saturated the market with their mining, and diamonds are about as valuable as they are in our world? That's cruel. That's why they're all poor. Why doesn't Lolotte just order Rosella to put out a hit on Genesta? How hard can it be? Frogs don't have lips! Holy hell, that dog just ate a whole human. Isn't it animal cruelty to just ride that unicorn straight into the clutches of Lolotte? Gave her the hen, too. Shame on you, Rosella! "No one will ever accidentally release the evils of Pandora's box into the world!" ...until they bulldoze to clear ground for a new shopping center and break the box in the process...and like such as...
21:58 she experiences real fear for the 1st time. I'm sorry, what was she feeling when she was about to get eaten by the 3-headed dragon?
I'm kind of hype watching this. Being in the sea at the mercy of aquatic life is exciting.
What if someone enters the Pandora's Box crypt by putting a firecracker in the lock? (See KQ7...)
I remeber buying the game at Egghead Software in NYC in 90s and the additional hint books.
After starting to play, I specially bought the supported AdLib Soundcard for the computer to hear the music. (nowadays the kids cannot imagine the great steps i.e. the improvement of graphics in KQ4 (VGA) compared to KQ1 (EGA) / buying a soundcard for the computer to hear some sort of MIDI files been played back (no real music), rather than having to listed to the "beeptones".
Playing these old KQ and SQ games are really interesting and fun to play also its great to see how far we have come in terms of gameplay and graphics.
Damn this is an impressive game for 1988, none of our consoles could do this back in the day... maybe the NES could but the audio and processing might be butchered.
Wow used to love this as a kid
Playing through this yet again for my umpteenth time.
I knew someone that worked on these games.. but i did not talk to them much .. i wish i did . I went to school with their son.
When they mentioned they worked on that game … I had never heard of it .
I never could quite finish this with the happy ending because I never can stop my self from eating the fruit. I want to live forever!
Is that an option??
I never got the good ending either. In my case, it was because I healed Genesta before getting the fruit, not knowing that doing so would end the game. Seriously, couldn't she at least have waited half an hour before teleporting me back? Anyway, I was a kid and I got so downhearted that I just quit
Damn tower stairs got me for awhile.
35:23 That is the best points music in all of kings quest
Miss this era.
Loved this game
Finally built an old school computer with Roland gear to play these games. Makes them more enjoyable.
The DosBox works fine though
Oh and there's a place called RE-PC in Washington that salvages all old computers and puts together reman's to sell to the public. Saw some windows 95 machines they have for like $180 or so. Kind of cool a company is out there to fix old stuff.
Made me tear up
That's one useful scarab.
I feel bad for Edgar. He didn't get the girl( er. Princess) Rosella like he deserved too. I think Rosella should have gone back and married him after her dad was healed.
Mind was blown in 89 or 90 when i played this.
Did you finish it?
***** cant remember. I belive we had instructions how to finish the game from some magazine. It was crazy difficult as a child, i didnt understand any english back then :D
pukki34
Seems like an incredibly hard game.
Man, the previous playthrough you did of this, I didn't notice the cave troll (you last time got the fruit and got out before it got dark). DANG that was creepy! And you hadn't even gotten to the zombies yet!
When I first played this game I found out that you have to take the bottle floating inside the whale or you can't finish it.
This game was impossible, but I still loved it
The sound is considerably better than the first 3 games. Shame I only.got to play the original as a kid. Believe it was an original IBM computer with dos
Its a real pity that only the Amiga version had sound effects...I would love to replay it on PC.I still got an Amiga tho but too much trouble to set it up for one game lol
This was my crack Coca-Cola growing up
I ended up breaking the shovel at the ghost house before getting the last item for the boy, and I saved beforehand so I'm stuck forever. Don't really wanna playthru so imma watch this :D
I remember not being able to complete this game without a walkthrough, and later looking up the solution and it being some reall dumb unintuitive shit with a shovel in some god damned graveyard. Your comment seems similar.
@@hueysharapova7175 Yeah, it's been a while, but I remember KQIV having a lot of pitfalls like that
To this day when I am cleaning around the house, I hear the tune that plays when Rosella cleans the dwarves house. Is that strange or what? ^_^
I had a similar experience with cleaning a barn once and hearing the stable cleaning music from Quest for Glory 1 in my head.
I love the part at 47:04 =D
I thought the trigger for sunset was getting the scarab. I guess it's actually having both the scarab and the fruit.
I can’t believe you didn’t clean up again after eating with the dwarves
How'd you get the music to sound so amazing? I'm playing it via ScummVM and it sounds much more chiptuned.
Roland MT-32.
biffrapper I actually just recently found out about that like 3 or so weeks ago. It sounds so gosh darn amazing!
Ruben (Snarfle) Did you hear about the new King's Quest game coming out this fall?
Ry Nicotera yes I have. I'm pretty excited for it :)
From an interview about it: " Because adventure games are a lot about exploring and walking around, we wanted to make sure we had a really good character controller, so he feels really good to move around. That said, this is not an action platformer,” Korba says, acknowledging that the trailer might have mistakenly given that impression. In fact, Graham jumps and climbs automatically when necessary, no dexterity required. And when he reaches an area in the cave where he has to sneak past the sleeping dragon, he tiptoes all on his own-just one example of a unique animation created to enhance the storytelling: “There are no ‘modes,’ it depends on what story beat we’re trying to hit. So right now he’s tiptoeing, that doesn’t mean there’s a stealth mode in this game, it’s purely only for this section. He does it automatically, there’s no sneak button. It makes [the game] really hard to make, because we don’t get to reuse anything.”
Who else just watches these to relax or go to sleep
Sucks that sierra isn't making games anymore still bitter that orcs revenge of the ancient got cancelled.
****48:12** THE MUSIC FROM THE SQ3 GAME , WHEN YOURE PLAYING """ASTRO CHICKEN"""... HAHAHAHAHA**
I remember getting this game when my dad got us an IBM PC long time ago... remember the liottle green book that came with it... there is no possible way to deduct all this from that book... how did they manage?
Rosella is pretty.
Day & night on king quest 4
I never made it very far in this game, it was hard as hell iirc.
Isn't there supposed to be a timer in this game (like in King's Quest 3) I don't have one in my version, looks like this doesn't have one either.
not good enough, but it may have to do if there's only one version without one that's always on the screen
You had 24 hours to recover the talisman for the Fairy Queen. It was pointless, but after the night experience, the day would eventually hit the time limit.
wouldn't be pointless for me. Yes, day to night then day again is 24 hours, but I'd still like to know how much time has passed.
@thesnare100
None of the versions of KQ4 show the timer on the top of the screen like in KQ3. You can go watch videos on RUclips of people playing both the SCI and AGI versions of the game on the various MS-DOS, Apple IIgs, Atari ST, & Amiga platforms. None of them have the timer like you’re talking about. As stated above, the only way to access the timer is to go into the first screen of the mansion (the room with the ticking clock) and type ‘time’ and it will display the in-game clock.
Did you ever read Peter Spears’ King’s Quest Companion? I think he states somewhere that one of the versions has a timer at the top of the screen like KQ3. I remember having the same idea as you back when I was a kid after reading his book, but I’ve never seen this mythical version he was talking about. Maybe he was given a beta copy that displayed the timer and that’s where he got the idea from? If you read his ‘Easy way out’ guide to KQ4 (in the back of the book), it’s clearly obvious he was working with the AGI version of them game and inserting corrections as he became familiar with the SCI version. One thing he never updated was the difference in the unicorn’s behavior between the two versions.
Missed in the beginning to verify your legal ownership of Kings Quest IV what is the fifth word in the second paragraph on page 8 in the Kings Quest manual
geez... at least wash the whistle before blowing it lady...
this game was pretty hard. some parts were so random, not intuitive. it's hard to get all of the points available. like the whale part, never would have figured that out without help
Yeah!! And, like, how do you know the pelican is carrying anything? Give me a break...and he leaves after like a minute, and then you're screwed...
kglaser11
No, he'll be back. However, there are lots of twists which have no clues.
How did you manage to escape the troll? I"ve never seen him in this video, on both ways through the cave. Please help, because he always gets me without saving my game, and you seem to manage to avoid him without saving
**THIS GAME WOULD HAVE BEEN SOOOOO MUCH SHORTER, ONCE YOU GOT THE """FRUIT""", WHERE THE SNAKE WAS..... AND THEN WENT BACK TO WHERE YOU STARTED FROM!!**
"Perhaps we will meet again."
But when?
In King's Quest 7
You mean the 7th King's Quest, where you control both Rosella and Queen Balance, @@russellvawter5604?
Do a Kings quest IV remake
I've been looking for the one he saves penelope... which one is that?
or peeenalope as I used to call her
haha. oh Hugo!
The dog part was ripped off from hugo house of horrors
She should have married Edgar