A Questionable Console Port - King's Quest 1 for Sega Master System | hungrygoriya

Kings Quest belongs to a world in which it was the only game you owned and it 'kept you entertained' for months.

Strong undercurrents pulled the port to the underworld.

I never got to play this as a kid, but my dad had some of the really old, text-only adventure games on his work computer. I agree that a big part of the fun was trying to figure out what the game wanted you to type. Still, I can totally understand why the makers of the Master System port went the way they did, given the system's lack of a keyboard. A noble effort on their part. Love your channel. I see that your popularity is skyrocketing -- it is well deserved!

Never played this version, although I did get all the way through Maniac Mansion on the NES. Also, while I prefer the DOS graphics, I love how the wizard at 1:56 looks like he's doing finger-guns. It's Buddy Mage! He's got your back! 🙂

"You cannot LOOK AT the CARROT" might be one of the funniest error messages I've seen in a long time. It feels more like the kind of thing you'd find in a parody game in a video making fun of old adventure games than something that'd actually be in one. Some carrots are simply too powerful, I suppose.

I don't quite know how – as I had an interest in computer & video games when I was growing up – but I was completely oblivious to the King's Quest series until just a couple of years ago. I was aware that those sorts of games existed on the old computers of the 1980s (I recall a schoolfriend showing me some of his games on floppy disk when we were little), but until relatively recently I had no idea that these sorts of adventures also made their way onto 8-bit consoles. Not only King's Quest, but a number of others besides, as I'm now aware. I can't help but think I missed out on a small part of the typical 1980s–'90s childhood. Oh well, at least I know about these games now, I suppose. And thank you, Hungry Goriya, for being the one to show me many of them!

Brings me back to the NES version of Maniac Mansion. I was in grade school when that came out, and I remember my friends and I trying to beat it while scouring Nintendo Power. Which had a lot of hints on what to do-- but it didn't have everything. Still, after many months we scoured through the game and found all the endings. The NES version of Maniac Mansion is underrated. It had some great music too!

Your youtube name makes me smile everytime I read it.

I love the Master System version cuz sometimes it's fun to play a relaxing version of the game. Good to get your insights on this!

Thank you. You are the first person to reply to my comment.Goes to show your game attention is matched by your attention to your fans.Again i am so glad to have found you.

So happy to see a new video from you 🥳 have you ever played my favorite NES game Bucky O'Hair? It's has MegaMan type gameplay but you can switch between all the characters from the cartoon series... would make for a cool review (warning, it's a pretty difficult game)

Another great video HG, you really hit the nail on the head with how this port turn out.

Thank you very much for another good review while keeping your own perspective. :)

Without fail, every time your channel comes up in my recommendations, it's covering some SMS game I never even knew existed. Not sure how I survived being a master system owner back in the day without some of these!

I didn’t play King’s Quest as a child (not for lack of trying to wheedle its purchase from my dad at Radio Shack!), but I played another PC Sierra game based on the Disney version of The Black Cauldron. It used the same parser formula and environmental interactions that both perturbed and delighted me at seven or eight years old ;) Nostalgia for that one certainly blinds my eyes when I attempt to criticize it, and I don’t even mind. There was something so magical and satisfying about mulling over a situation and deciding how to approach it. I was already an imaginative child; games similar to that one and King’s Quest weren’t flawless, but they left me spellbound! They were definitely the gateway to my love of the adventure/action RPG genres.

Passwords are one part of Gaming's Infancy that I am glad have been left in the Past. I never had a Master System as I started with an NES but the Games I've seen on the Console were Pretty impressive.

I was an early PC owner in the 80's and late to the console gaming scene, but I absolutely loved and played every KQ game on PC many times. Roberta Williams was definitely the first video game producer whose name I knew. I never knew they had a KQ port on console, I feel bad for whoever had to try and work the game into a console.

"It doesn't push the experience to an unplayable status, but it definitely cuts the fun off at the knees." You are quite the trooper, haha

I'm so jealous of that beautiful screen. Is that a 15"? CRTs are so hard to get, and they're always beaten up and about to break, in my experience.

First game I ever played on a PC was Kings Quest IV on a friend's computer back in the early 90's! I knew I needed my own computer after that and it's the reason I got one! A few months later, a friend brought over a 2400 modem before the internet even existed and it took all night to download a few pictures and the rest is history! ☺️