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King's Quest V: Absence Makes the Heart Go Yonder!

aka: KQ5, King's Quest V

Moby ID: 130

[ All ] [ Amiga ] [ DOS ] [ FM Towns ] [ Macintosh add ] [ NES ] [ PC-98 ] [ Windows 16-bit ]

Amiga screenshots

thumbnail — Sierra logo

thumbnail — Title screen

thumbnail — The opening sequence

thumbnail — Cedric saw the castle disappear

thumbnail — Starting the game

thumbnail — There is a weeping willow with a harp here

thumbnail — Entering a town

thumbnail — Entering the desert, be careful!

thumbnail — A forest path.

thumbnail — In a village.

thumbnail — Talking to a man with a broken wagon.

thumbnail — In the tailor's shop.

thumbnail — The control menu.

thumbnail — In the toy shop.

thumbnail — In the shoe shop.

thumbnail — The bakery.

thumbnail — Inside the bakery.

thumbnail — Outside of the inn.

thumbnail — Inside the inn.

thumbnail — The bandits at the inn tied me up, and threw me down in the basement!

thumbnail — Near a tree with a bee hive.

thumbnail — The desert.

thumbnail — A cool drink in the desert is just what Graham needs right now.

thumbnail — A desert camp.

thumbnail — That dog is bothering the ants.

thumbnail — The gypsy wagon.

thumbnail — That sign means what it says.

thumbnail — A path in the dark forest.

thumbnail — What's that young man upset about?

thumbnail — The gnomes house.

thumbnail — A help screen.

thumbnail — The evil witch is locked in a safe place, now how do I find the exit?

thumbnail — The underground passage with some interesting paleontological details

thumbnail — While the 32-color Amiga version usually doesn't look as good as PC's VGA, the mountains really look interesting in this reduced color palette.

thumbnail — Graham's private harp concert for Queen Icebella and her wolves...

thumbnail — The harpy island

thumbnail — Graham and Cedric are approaching Mordack's island - as always, Cedric's warning will come when there is little left to do...

thumbnail — The castle entrance - of course Graham can't just ring and say "Sorry, Mordack, but I believe you have borrowed something without asking"... ;)

thumbnail — Graham is learning some useful spells.

DOS screenshots

thumbnail — Sierra Company Logo (MCGA/VGA)

thumbnail — Title screen (MCGA/VGA)

thumbnail — Introduction (MCGA/VGA)

thumbnail — Introduction (MCGA/VGA)

thumbnail — Introduction continued (MCGA/VGA)

thumbnail — In-game shot (MCGA/VGA)

thumbnail — The town (MCGA/VGA)

thumbnail — In a store (MCGA/VGA)

thumbnail — Desert Castle (MCGA/VGA)

thumbnail — Cedric the old wizard wonders why sitting in "HIS" river... (MCGA/VGA)

thumbnail — The options menu are more graphical...(overlooking the bakery) (MCGA/VGA)

thumbnail — That termite castle looks better than most buildings I know... (MCGA/VGA)

thumbnail — I wonder if these gypsies know the Avatar? (MCGA/VGA)

thumbnail — The weeping willow...formerly beautiful princess, now professional harp player at medieval pubs (MCGA/VGA)

thumbnail — Sierra somehow doesn't quite comprehend that tooo many ways to die irritates the player...ribit! (MCGA/VGA)

thumbnail — There goes the "needle in the haystack" theory... (MCGA/VGA)

thumbnail — Archaeologists would really love this place! (MCGA/VGA)

thumbnail — Forest Path (MCGA/VGA)

thumbnail — Title screen (EGA/Tandy)

thumbnail — Introduction (EGA/Tandy)

thumbnail — Introduction continued (EGA/Tandy)

thumbnail — In-game shot (EGA/Tandy)

thumbnail — The town (EGA/Tandy)

thumbnail — In a store (EGA/Tandy)

thumbnail — Desert Castle (EGA/Tandy)

thumbnail — Forest Path (EGA/Tandy)

thumbnail — Beautiful scenery in the game's intro. (CDROM version) (VGA)

thumbnail — Inside the toy shop. (CDROM version) (VGA)

thumbnail — A village. (CDROM version) (VGA)

thumbnail — Graham takes a drink from a desert oasis. (CDROM version) (VGA)

thumbnail — Graham finds the camp of the desert bandits. (CDROM version) (VGA)

thumbnail — Inside the desert bandit's treasure cave. (CDROM version) (VGA)

thumbnail — Inside a spooky home. (CDROM version) (VGA)

thumbnail — That bear is trying to get some honey from the bees. (CDROM version) (VGA)

thumbnail — Graham gets some help from some friendly little people. (CDROM version) (VGA)

thumbnail — The princess is now a princess again, thanks to Graham. (CDROM version) (VGA)

thumbnail — Graham's inventory. (CDROM version) (VGA)

thumbnail — The inn. (CDROM version) (VGA)

thumbnail — The inn's kitchen. (CDROM version) (VGA)

thumbnail — In the snowy mountains (CDROM version) (VGA)

thumbnail — Snowy mountains. (CDROM version) (VGA)

thumbnail — Queen Icebella's throne room. (CDROM version) (VGA)

thumbnail — Queen Icebella. (CDROM version) (VGA)

thumbnail — It's a yeti! (CDROM version) (VGA)

thumbnail — Crystal cave. (CDROM version) (VGA)

thumbnail — Beach. (CDROM version) (VGA)

thumbnail — Boat house. (CDROM version) (VGA)

thumbnail — Sailing to an island. (CDROM version) (VGA)

thumbnail — Evil guy's lair. HELLO! OPEN UP THE DOOR! IT'S GRAHAM, THE PIZZA DELIVERY GUY! (CDROM version) (VGA)

thumbnail — Casimma is here in the kitchen. She will have a bigger role in King's Quest VI. (CDROM version) (VGA)

FM Towns screenshots

thumbnail — Title screen

thumbnail — Intro

thumbnail — Meeting the owl Cedric

thumbnail — Starting location

thumbnail — In a forest. Visible interface

thumbnail — Trying to talk to whatever is in that tree

thumbnail — Outside of the town

thumbnail — Town center

thumbnail — Dialogue portraits in indoor locations

thumbnail — Embarrassing moment

thumbnail — River bank

thumbnail — Note the detailed cat animation

thumbnail — A dwarf is playing with a toy

thumbnail — Musical tree

thumbnail — Fortune teller's wagon

thumbnail — As in many Sierra games, there is an endless desert here

thumbnail — Ways to Die #43: bitten by a scorpion. And where is my funny message?..

thumbnail — Ways to Die #115: the wizard kills you

thumbnail — Ways to Die #171: the hero can't swim

thumbnail — In the settings you can switch from Japanese to English voices

thumbnail — Saving the game at the bandit's camp

thumbnail — Madame Mushka - the fortune teller

thumbnail — The witch and her house

thumbnail — The genie and the witch

thumbnail — Don't you know, the only sensible action to stop a Yeti from killing you is to throw a custard pie in his face

thumbnail — Queen Icebella

thumbnail — The incredibly annoying Cedric the Owl warns you to "Watch out!" when it's already too late to prevent anything

thumbnail — Oookay...

thumbnail — Though the FM Towns version came on CD, notice the icons are just like in the DOS floppy version, whereas in the DOS CD version they were in color

thumbnail — Labyrinth beneath Mordack's castle

thumbnail — Grabbing some peas at the castle's pantry

thumbnail — Inventory

thumbnail — Graham returns the locket to Cassima

thumbnail — Final confrontation with Mordack, spells menu

NES screenshots

thumbnail — What the... is THIS the title screen?!

thumbnail — The real title screen

thumbnail — Intro

thumbnail — Sir Graham merrily jumps through woods

thumbnail — Oh!... My castle...

thumbnail — Let's fly!

thumbnail — Sir Graham listens to the conversation from the pool

thumbnail — Classic Sierra interface: choose an action, click on the object you want to interact with

thumbnail — Inventory

thumbnail — Bitten by a poisonous snake

thumbnail — Nice water mill!

thumbnail — Ooooh, dangerous...

thumbnail — Typical "sierraish" colorful description

thumbnail — Met some people

thumbnail — At fortune teller's

thumbnail — Let's go to the desert, Sir Graham!

thumbnail — Sir Graham drinks

thumbnail — In a town, looking at beautiful girls

thumbnail — Blacksmith

thumbnail — Sir Graham and a bear

thumbnail — Talking to Crispin

PC-98 screenshots

thumbnail — In the PC-98 version, all the setup is done when running the main game

thumbnail — Ahh, the nostalgic logo... :)

thumbnail — Title screen

thumbnail — Intro. Castle Daventry is about to disappear

thumbnail — As the credits run...

thumbnail — Not only the owl can speak; he can speak JAPANESE! :)

thumbnail — Dig this "absent-minded professor" outfit, dude. A tad overkill with the whole "I'm-too-cool-for-underwear" attitude, though...

thumbnail — Starting location. You impatiently grab the roof

thumbnail — Go, brave warrior! Go!...

thumbnail — Unsure whether you should go on that path or not, you open the Sierra icon interaction menu

thumbnail — Middle of the forest "hub". You open your inventory

thumbnail — Nice view of the city. Too bad the graphics on PC-98 are so lousy

thumbnail — Dialogues have those portraits and block the whole screen...

thumbnail — Another wacky fantasy creature. A tree who is playing a harp. Maybe I should get a piano for her. Maybe she could swing, you know. Play Thelonious Monk or something

thumbnail — You bravely venture into the Evil Wizard Realm (TM)

thumbnail — You get zapped...

thumbnail — ...and turned into a frog. You'd think you could continue the game in a frog form, but no. Game is over

thumbnail — Nice architecture!

thumbnail — All house interiors are displayed in small windows. Very annoying, uncomfortable, and just plain bad-looking

thumbnail — I wonder what those guys are doing there...

thumbnail — The wise owl will offer professional consulting from time to time. It mostly consists of: "Be careful, Graham!!.. There is deep water there!!..", as if you were blind or didn't play the other KQs

thumbnail — Hey, now I want to play Ultima

thumbnail — The classic Sierra Desert To Be Lost In (TM)

thumbnail — Beautiful view here. You try to talk to yourself

thumbnail — You get bitten by a scorpion... Life was good as long as it lasted

thumbnail — They really tried, but the inferior graphics of PC-98 made this town look less beautiful than it was supposed to

Windows 16-bit screenshots

thumbnail — Title sequence

thumbnail — Castle Daventry.

thumbnail — Start of the game.

thumbnail — Game options menu.

thumbnail — Forest path.

thumbnail — Outside the village.

thumbnail — The village.

thumbnail — Shoe shop.

thumbnail — A young prince is here crying.

thumbnail — Outside the bakery.

thumbnail — Inside the bakery.

thumbnail — Outside the inn.

thumbnail — Inside the inn.

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