One day, he rescued a beautiful young Princess Dahlia from the land of Cumberland. Sometime later the king looked for a new queen. However the dwarf had lied to the king, and the queen fared worse and died. The dwarf gave the plant's root to the king, and departed. Years later, as the queen was sick and dying, a dwarf showed up promising to give a plant's root that would cure her illness, if only the king would give him the 'shield that protects its wearer against danger'. Thinking it was their own future son, they gave the mirror to the evil sorcerer. A sorcerer promised to help the queen bear an heir, if they gave him their mirror that tells the future looking in the mirror, the king and queen saw a vision of a young man becoming king. King Edward the Benevolent lacked an heir. The Kingdom of Daventry is in serious trouble, after its precious magical items have been stolen from Castle Daventry. In the later 4th release IBM PC/Apple II (1984) and repackaged 5th release (1987) the backstory was greatly expanded:

In later releases, knight's name was changed to Graham. King Edward calls his bravest knight, Sir Grahame, to his throne, and tells him he has heard of three legendary treasures hidden throughout the land that would end Daventry's troubles. The Kingdom of Daventry is suffering from recent disasters and hardship. In the original version on PCjr (1983), the story was simple. The 1990 remake was renamed King's Quest 1: Quest for the Crown (King's Quest I on the box). The game was originally released simply as King's Quest the subtitle 'Quest for the Crown' was added to the game box in the 5th rerelease (1987), but did not appear in the game itself. The story and the general design of the game was developed by Roberta Williams. It is part of the King's Quest series of adventure video games. King's Quest: Quest for the Crown (aka King's Quest) is a 1983 adventure game, originally published for the IBM PCjr simply as King's Quest. This game can be played also in a version for SMS.

If you prefer to use a java applet emulator, follow this link. This game is emulated by javascript emulator em-dosbox. For fullscreen press 'Right Alt' + 'Enter'. Game is controlled by the same keys that are used to playing under MS DOS.

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