As you may or may not know, I am a big fan of the old Sierra computer games, King’s Quest, Police Quest, <insert name> Quest. They were great games to grow up with. Many a day were spent on the Tandy 1000 trying to figure out how to beat King’s Quest.
Years ago, I lost my copy of the King’s Quest Collection. I still remember picking that up on a trip to Toronto when I was a kid and showing up at Nanny Ruth’s place with it, just marvelling at the packaging and the user manuals because I had to wait a few weeks until getting home to actually use it!
Always on the lookout, I wasn’t prepared to pay $80 on Ebay for it, but lo and behold, Kijiji was my friend in the past few weeks and I managed to find a copy for $10 in Peterborough! Luckily, Krista’s parents live there so within 12 hours that as well as the Space Quest collection were mine for $20. They are in excellent condition and I’m pumped!
Alas, I didn’t have much luck on the Kings Quest 3 front. I found a listing in London so I had Troy pick it up for me for $8. In the end, it came in a box with all the manuals, but the slipcover was missing. The guy did throw in the disks for KQ4 for free so I can’t complain for $8.