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: Quest for the Crown

* 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!

Other areas damaged during World War II bombing included: in September 1940 two unexploded bombs hit the Edward VII galleries, the King's Library received a direct hit from a high explosive bomb, incendiaries fell on the dome of the Round Reading Room but did little damage ; on the night of 10 to 11 May 1941 several incendiaries fell on the south west corner of the Museum, destroying the book stack and 150, 000 books in the courtyard and the galleries around the top of the Great Staircase – this damage was not fully repaired until the early 1960s.

In 1527 William Knight, the King's secretary, was sent to Pope Clement VII to sue for the annulment of his marriage to Catherine, on the grounds that the dispensing bull of Pope Julius II permitting him to marry his brother's widow, Catherine, had been obtained under false pretences.

Henry VII sent his chief general, Giles, Lord Daubeney, to attack the Cornish and when Warbeck heard that the King's scouts were at Glastonbury he panicked and deserted his army.

It has been speculated that the choice of the college as a beneficiary by the two later Henrys was a political one, with Henry VII in particular concerned to legitimate a new, post-civil war Tudor regime by demonstrating patronage of what was by definition the King's College.

The monarchs who had the same Master of the King's Music throughout their reign were: King Charles I ( Nicholas Lanier ), King James II ( Nicholas Staggins ), Queen Anne and King George I ( John Eccles ), King Edward VII ( Sir Walter Parratt ) and King Edward VIII ( Sir Walford Davies ).

* Stephen King's eight-book epic The Dark Tower saga employs the number 19 in books The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger, The Dark Tower V: Wolves of the Calla, The Dark Tower VI: Song of Susannah, The Dark Tower VII: The Dark Tower, and The Wind Through the Keyhole as a mysterious and important number.

* King's Quest VII: The Princeless Bride ( 1994 ) ( Producer / Musician )

Some have thought Lolotte is a sister of Genesta, Malicia and Titania, and related to Edgar, but this was not the case according to references in King's Quest VII, and the backstory notes printed in various official hint guides which state she is not actually related to any of the noble family of Etheria ( or Genesta ); Edgar states in KQ7 that he knew somehow he wasn't related to her, and Oberon calls her an " evil faerie " and gives no direct ties to himself or Titania, nor does Titania give any indication of her having any connection to Lolotte.

Years before the events of King's Quest VII, she had attempted to overthrow the land of Etheria but was defeated by Count Vladmir Tsepish, protector of the land of Ooga Booga.

During the events of King's Quest VII, she sought to destroy the realm of Eldrich by activating a volcano, thereby creating new land over its ruins.

Henry VII sent his chief general, Giles, Lord Daubeney to attack the Cornish and when Warbeck heard that the King's scouts were at Glastonbury he panicked and deserted his army.

As Lord Great Chamberlain he officiated at the coronations of Henry VII and his Queen, Elizabeth of York, bearing the King's train at the coronation and setting the crown upon the King's head at the coronation banquet.

Two years later, when King Henry VII ascended the throne, the attainder was reversed and the wardship of the young Duke of Buckingham, along with all his lands, was given to the King's mother, the Countess of Richmond and Derby.

* King's Quest VII: The Princeless Bride ( 1994 )

Four soldiers of the King's African Rifles at the Coronation of the British monarch | coronation of Edward VII of the United Kingdom | King Edward VII in 1902.

* King Edward VII School ( King's Lynn ), Norfolk

Hubert Parry's I Was Glad was written as the entrance anthem for the coronation of Edward VII, and contains a bridge section partway through so that the King's or Queen's Scholars of Westminster School can exercise their right to be the first commoners to acclaim the sovereign, shouting their traditional " vivat " s as he or she enters the coronation theatre.

Instead, she held the title of Dowager Princess of Wales and, as with the similar case of Henry VII of England's mother, Lady Margaret Beaufort, she also used the title " My Lady the King's Mother ".

Two years later, when King Henry VII ascended the throne, the attainder was reversed and the wardship of Henry, along with his brother Edward Stafford, 3rd Duke of Buckingham, was given to the King's mother, the Countess of Richmond and Derby.

Liberal revolutionaries stormed the King's palace and seized Ferdinand VII who was a prisoner of the Cortes in all but name for the next three years.

* King's Quest VII: The Princeless Bride

( SCI1. 1 ), King's Quest VII: The Princeless Bride ( SCI2 ), and Space Quest 6: The Spinal Frontier ( SCI2 ).