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King's Quest: Quest for the Crown

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This page details pre-release information and/or media for King's Quest: Quest for the Crown.

Publicity#

The game was demonstrated at the 1984 Winter CES, four months before its release. Several magazines had covered their exhibition, all of which appear to show photographs from Sierra's publicity kit. Around the same time, Sierra also took responsibility for Texas Instruments' contractual agreement to produce games for Walt Disney Products.

  • Several grammar errors were fixed; particularly about the witch's house and the fiddle.
  • This appears to be the only difference in these photographs. Around this time, the game was nearing completion.

On the 13th of January, a trademark registration was filed for the King's Quest name and was subsequently filed on the 23rd. A demo presented by Greg Rowland was later shown at the "Softwaire Centre" store in Fresno on April 20th.