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Those of you who were growing up in the 80s and 90s may remember a computer game series from the Sierra company called King's Quest; a mixture of mythology and fairy tales intertwined with the adventures of the kings and princes of a land called Daventry who battled evil and always saved the day.
As kids my brother and I were hooked on the 6th and only game of the series we ever had: Heir Today, Gone Tomorrow, where Prince Alexander endures winged people, a minotaur, talking chess pieces, a cursed beast, Druids, trap doors, murderous statues, boiling rivers, the Realm of the Dead, the River Styx, a man-eating door, and a golden eyed genie who tries to kill him at every turn, all on a quest to find and save his beloved Princess Cassima, while trying to solve the mystery of why the five islands are at war with each other.
The old CD-Rom is no longer compatible with the new computers but the games have been updated to work again, and maybe someday we'll have the entire collection, but I digress. Curiosity got the better of me and I checked Amazon to see if there were ever any books written on King's Quest, aside from the game help manuals, and there are 3; I bought the first two and received the first one in the mail today, The Floating Castle.
Though the first games involved King Graham of Daventry, on the cover I recognize Prince Alexander, who apparently also has a large part in this story. I don't suppose anybody here has heard of these or read them before, but I thought I'd ask anyway. And if it turns out to be any good, I'll report back on it, but I think this should be very interesting.
As kids my brother and I were hooked on the 6th and only game of the series we ever had: Heir Today, Gone Tomorrow, where Prince Alexander endures winged people, a minotaur, talking chess pieces, a cursed beast, Druids, trap doors, murderous statues, boiling rivers, the Realm of the Dead, the River Styx, a man-eating door, and a golden eyed genie who tries to kill him at every turn, all on a quest to find and save his beloved Princess Cassima, while trying to solve the mystery of why the five islands are at war with each other.
The old CD-Rom is no longer compatible with the new computers but the games have been updated to work again, and maybe someday we'll have the entire collection, but I digress. Curiosity got the better of me and I checked Amazon to see if there were ever any books written on King's Quest, aside from the game help manuals, and there are 3; I bought the first two and received the first one in the mail today, The Floating Castle.
Though the first games involved King Graham of Daventry, on the cover I recognize Prince Alexander, who apparently also has a large part in this story. I don't suppose anybody here has heard of these or read them before, but I thought I'd ask anyway. And if it turns out to be any good, I'll report back on it, but I think this should be very interesting.
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