King's Quest Behind the Scenes

[The Ivy]

Watch this.

It's some kind of propaganda film about the King's Quest series. Wow, the 90s were an awesome time to be alive.

[Ryan Timothy B]

I believe this video, and others, came included with one of my old Sierra games.  Can't remember which one though.
I think it may have even been in the King Quest 6 cd.  Even though it appears to be talking about Kings Quest 6.

[Ghost]

Wow, the 90s were an awesome time to be alive.

Indeed they were, as well as the eighties. Ever seen the first commercial for PacMan   ?

And to be honest, I miss the times where buying a game was inseperatable with grabbing a big box from a shelf*, read the manual on the way home, inserting lots of disks and then spend a few minutes editing the good old autoexec.bat, optimising your RAM... *sigh* Great times. Great times...

*Which would sometimes have a nice little goodie in it too...

[Grundislav]

Ah yes, this video came with the CD of King's Quest VI.  All the Sierra behind the scenes videos were great, ranging from vomit-inducing to genuinely interesting (GK1 was one of the latter).

A few years back I had the idea to make a parody of these videos, but I was too lazy to actually finish it.  A Making Of video for an AGS game where the developer basically lounges around all day drinking beer and watching tv could be pretty funny if done right.

Consider this a challenge!

[LGM]

Paramount has greenlit your idea, Grund.

[Layabout]

Roberta Williams looks and sounds like a 12 year old girl.

[Miez]

LOL that man in the shop (beginning of the video) reminded me of Married with children's Al Bundy

Oh and WHOOO for the inclusion of Jane Jensen.

[Phemar]

That's awesome =)

It's amazing how you can browse youtube for ages :/ Clicking on your click sent me all over youtube and eventually I ended up watching Kent Hovind debate videos. (which are hilarious btw).

[GarageGothic]

Yeah, I remember there was a lot of bonus stuff on the original Sierra collections (I'm pretty sure the current re-releases only have the bare minimums - not even the AGI versions of games that were remade in VGA). The Space Quest collection video was quite silly but fun, and the King's Quest collection also had a  encyclopedia of Sierra games (made in help file format) and some nice production artwork. My favorite was the GK making-of that Grundislav mentioned, it really boosted my ambition of one day making my own adventure games.

Seeing this again most of all reminded me how horrible video codecs were in the 90's

[Babar]

Aye, I have some of many of those videos on my KQ/SQ collection CDs....those quicktime movies were really bad quality!

But they were funny

[tombom62]

Aw... I love that!  I've seen it many times already (yes it's  on the KQ6 cd) King's Quest connects emotionally to me, because I played it so many times when I was really young.  GREAT VID!

[The Ivy]

Yeah, that video was alternately charming and hilarious. I love how the narrator talks about "com-pu-ter games" like the listener doesn't know what they are. Clearly, they bought the game, and yet they need to be told how popular computer games are.

Ah well, no one should be held accountable for what they said (or what hairstyle they were rocking) in 1992.

[Shane 'ProgZmax' Stevens]

This video is lying to me.  No kid will be going to the store to ask his dad for King's Quest .

And I bet sierra isn't hiring sprite artists for its 'team of professionals' either!


I may or may not be joking.

[Eggie]

I'd never heard of this convention but I did consider making a parody 'making of' film like this for my Shawshank redemption game.
I guess it leaked down to me through cultural osmosis.

[tombom62]

I don't think it can really be made fun of, after all, remember what it's for, and when it came out, and how awesome the KQs were for gamers,

[Ali]

Wow, the 90s were an awesome time to be alive.

And to be honest, I miss the times where buying a game was inseperatable with grabbing a big box from a shelf*, read the manual on the way home, inserting lots of disks and then spend a few minutes editing the good old autoexec.bat, optimising your RAM... *sigh* Great times. Great times...

I wholeheartedly agree. The four hours you spent getting an adventure game to work was part of the fun! It was like free additional puzzle.

Thankfully, Dosbox has brought back some of that magic. Not like lousy-normally-just-work-when-you-click-on-them-AGS-games.

[tombom62]

Yes, It too k me a LONG time to get DosBox working.