Abdul Alhazred acts as vizier to King Calaphim and Queen Allaria in The Land of the Green Isles in King's Quest VI: Heir Today, Gone Tomorrow.

Many people were buying new, more powerful computers expressly for games, and the days were long-gone when people would be satisfied with simple vectored line drawings, such as those that made the Wizardry games famous, or with the blocky graphics that were used in Sierra Entertainment's King's Quest games.

The book is similar to Peter Spear's The King's Quest Companion and The Official Uncensored Leisure Suit Larry Bedside Companion.

Unlike previous collections, this does not come with any printed documentation ( instead including PDF files containing the original manuals for copy protection purposes ), and the " Runs on Windows XP " blurb on the box is justified by an included copy of freeware application DOSBox, leaving many to see this edition ( and the simultaneous releases of the Police Quest, King's Quest and Space Quest collections ) as a cash-in to measure the viability of future games in the series.

The book, like other Sierra books by Peter Spear such as The King's Quest Companion, was revised and edited so that there was a second edition ( 1991 ) covering Larry V.

It was recreated for the video games Spy Hunter ( 2001 ), King's Quest V, Lego Indiana Jones, Sonic Unleashed and Civilization V and appeared in the novels Left Behind, Appointment with Death, The Eagle in the Sand and The Red Sea Sharks, the nineteenth book in The Adventures of Tintin series.

It is a prelude to the King's Quest series in both story and concept.

In the summer of 1984, King's Quest was released to much acclaim.

A long series of Leisure Suit Larry games would follow in the coming years and become the second best selling game series of Sierra On-Line after King's Quest.

In 1990, Sierra released King's Quest V. It would be the first Sierra On-Line game ever to sell more than 500, 000 copies and was the highest selling game for the next five years.

Sierra On-Line's King's Quest IV became the first game-title to support the AdLib.

* 1988-Sierra Entertainment's King's Quest IV, the first PC game to support AdLib

* In the 1988 Sierra game King's Quest IV: The Perils of Rosella, the player must steal the eye from the three witches in order to barter it for a puzzle piece that is critical to solving the game.

He wrote that, " in graphics and sound terms ... Monkey Island, along with King's Quest V, is currently at the head of the pack.

The name Gwydion also appears in the Sierra game King's Quest III, where a Prince Alexander of Daventry has been kidnapped by an evil wizard named Manannan who renames him Gwydion.

Many industry firsts were achieved in Oakhurst including the development of the first 3D adventure game ( King's Quest, 1984 ) and one of the first online gaming networks ( The Sierra Network, 1989 ).

From the 1980s to 1990s, the popular King's Quest series of adventure games was set in a fictional kingdom of Daventry, entirely unrelated to the real Daventry other than the name.

* King's Quest II: Romancing the Throne

* King's Quest III: To Heir Is Human

* King's Quest IV: The Perils of Rosella

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

* 1993 – A federal judge sentences Los Angeles Police Department officers Stacey Koon and Laurence Powell to 30 months in prison for violating motorist Rodney King's civil rights.

There have been settlements there since the medieval period, likely in the Grange Lane and Black Abbey area, and the King's Highway which passes above the town was at one time used by the kings and queens of England when they used the area for hunting when the Forest of Accrington was one of the four forests of the hundred of Blackburnshire.

The family returned home once for the Lambeth Conference in 1897, and Bernard and his brother Harold were educated for a term at The King's School, Canterbury.

In recent times, it has become customary to invite units from France's allies to the parade ; in 2004 during the centenary of the Entente Cordiale, British troops ( the band of the Royal Marines, the Household Cavalry Mounted Regiment, Grenadier Guards and King's Troop, Royal Horse Artillery ) led the Bastille Day parade in Paris for the first time, with the Red Arrows flying overhead.

In 1802 a Buildings Committee was set up to plan for expansion of the museum, and further highlighted by the donation in 1822 of the King's Library, personal library of King George III's, comprising 65, 000 volumes, 19, 000 pamphlets, maps, charts and topographical drawing.

Additionally, from at least the 11th century and continuing for several centuries after that, there were several different circuits in the royal court system, served by itinerant judges who would travel from town to town dispensing the King's justice.

In 1934, then enrolled as a graduate student at King's College London, he wrote his Ph. D. thesis on Trade and War in the Eastern Seas, 1803-1810, which was awarded the Julian Corbett Prize in Naval History for 1935.

* The King's Commission to William Kidd for the Capture of Captain Thomas Tew and Others

* 1648 – Colonel Pride of the New Model Army purges the Long Parliament of MPs sympathetic to King Charles I of England, in order for the King's trial to go ahead ; came to be known as " Pride's Purge ".

The novel, which was praised by Stephen King, is similar to King's It in its focus on small town life, the corruption of innocence, the return of an ancient evil, and the responsibility for others that emerges with the transition from youth to adulthood.

Fueled by rumors of a reception for the King's bodyguards on 1 October 1789 at which the national cockade had been trampled upon, on 5 October 1789 crowds of women began to assemble at Parisian markets.

Bacon, however, continued to receive the King's favour, which led to his appointment in March 1617 as the temporary Regent of England ( for a period of a month ), and in 1618 as Lord Chancellor.

Using " Photo 51 " ( the X-ray diffraction results of Raymond Gosling and Rosalind Franklin of King's College London, given to them by Gosling and Franklin's colleague Maurice Wilkins ), Watson and Crick together developed a model for a helical structure of DNA, which they published in 1953.

Alexander Stokes ( another expert in helical diffraction theory ) and Wilkins ( both at King's College ) had reached the conclusion that X-ray diffraction data for DNA indicated that the molecule had a helical structure — but Franklin vehemently disputed this conclusion.

In order to construct their model of DNA, Watson and Crick made use of information from unpublished X-ray diffraction images of Franklin's ( shown at meetings and freely shared by Wilkins ), including preliminary accounts of Franklin's results / photographs of the X-ray images that were included in a written progress report for the King's College laboratory of Sir John Randall from late 1952.

As a result of leaving King's College for another institution, Franklin was asked by John Randall to give up her work on DNA.

The key problem for Watson and Crick, which could not be resolved by the data from King's College, was to guess how the nucleotide bases pack into the core of the DNA double helix.

In the north and south walls of the Queen's Chamber there are shafts, which unlike those in the King's Chamber that immediately slope upwards, are horizontal for around before sloping upwards.

* Vasilopita, Saint Basil's cake or King's cake, traditional only for New Year's Day.

Also in the 1970s, horror author Stephen King debuted on the film scene as many of his books were adapted for the screen, beginning with Brian De Palma's adaptation of King's first published novel, Carrie ( 1976 ), which was nominated for Academy Awards.

In this secret ' Engagement ', the Scots promised military aid in return for the King's agreement to implement Presbyterianism in England on a three-year trial basis.

After the Norman conquest, Hertfordshire was used for some of the new Norman castles at Bishop's Stortford and at the royal residence of Berkhamsted and at King's Langley, a staging post between London and the royal residence of Berkhamsted.

Beginning in the 1970s, King's stories have managed to attract a large audience, for which he was prized by the U. S. National Book Foundation in 2003.