The original King’s Quest was a landmark in computer gaming. In 1984, authoress Roberta Williams designed the original King’s Quest to demonstrate the power and versatility of second generation computers. It became one of the industry’s [...]
Larry Laffer is a 38-year-old (40-year-old in the 1991 remake) man who lives in his mother's basement and has not yet lost his virginity. Having grown weary of his lonely existence, he decides to visit the resort city of Lost Wages to experience what he [...]
The third game in Sierra’s Police Quest series. Based again in Lytton, Sonny Bonds has been promoted, and is forced to deal with both the questionable ethics of a colleague and the attempted murder of his wife, as the sleepy California city is under [...]
The adventures of Freddy Pharkas, a pharmacist living in Coarsegold in the 1800s, where he moved to cover up his past as a former gunslinger who quit when he got his ear shot off by a rival. When a string of strange happenings and a pack of wild outlaws [...]
Players of the original game are never told the hero's name, but are instead asked to enter their own. The default name of "Roger Wilco" — a reference to the radio communication, "Roger, Will Comply" — became the de facto name of the hero in the later [...]
The opening sequence of the game finds Larry mowing the lawn of Eve, his sexual encounter from the ending of the previous game, implying the pair have remained together. However, this is quickly revealed to be an instance of an unreliable narrator, as Eve [...]
