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Game 52: King's Quest V: Absence Makes the Heart Go Yonder (1990) - Introduction
It's time for King's Quest V, a game that was originally released with some strangely disturbing box art of a family being kidnapped as they were performing their nightly line-dancing routine.Do owls...
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Game 50: B.A.T. (1990) - Introduction
Written by AperamaI assume I'm the guy with the arm technology who's staring at the wolfman?(Also: Ubisoft title before DRM! I expect multiple layered manual protection systems..)A-A-AH! I get to learn...
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What's Your Story - The Brown Dragon
Answers by TBDIntroduction and Captions by IlmariI can with all honesty say that without TBD this blog might not have continued after Trickster's stepping down from active blogging duties. When I made...
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Game 50: B.A.T. - Toilet Training
Written by AperamaAgeless, Faceless, Gender-Neutral, Culturally Ambiguous Adventure Person's Journal #1: It's hard to be positive about being a B.A.T. operative. The pay is lousy and mostly goes...
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Game 52: King's Quest V – King Graham, Insect Whisperer
Written by TBDKing Graham of Daventry Journal Entry #1: "I thought my days of adventuring were over, but apparently not. On coming home from a walk, I found a hole in the ground where my castle used to...
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Missed Classic 6: Wonderland - Part The Second – In Which Alice Discovers...
Written by Mad Welshman“Is it strange, sir, that my head unaccountably aches here, and I feel that I have been here for longer than I've seen?” Alice enquired, scratching irritably at her ribbon. The...
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Game 52: Kings Quest V - Monotony Came From the Desert
Written by TBDKing Graham of Daventry Journal Entry #2: "I've just seen enough sand to last many lifetimes and I have no desire to see even another grain of the accursed stuff – my first royal edict...
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Game 52: King's Quest V - Stuck in Burkittsville Woods - Request for assistance!
Written by TBDKing Graham of Daventry Journal Entry #3: "I'm out of ideas. I defeated the witch in the forest and ransacked her home, but now I seem to be lost in the forest, unable to find an exit. I...
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Game 50: B.A.T. - Dance 'til you Drop
By AperamaAgeless, Faceless, Gender-Neutral, Terran Adventure Person's Journal #2: Well, I've explored the entirety of town, now. After having been shot at by Glockmups and Stickrobs (and damn, do...
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Some small changes to blog format
By the former admins of TAGSalaam alaykum! We have great news!For quite some time we have felt that taking care of the blog is far harder than we ever could have thought and consumes too much of our...
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Game 52: King's Quest V - The things I'll go through for a leg of lamb
King Graham of Daventry Journal Entry #4:“With the help of an elf I finally escaped the dread forest. I then helped a woman get her heart back, bartered with a gnome, a cobbler and a toymaker, defeated...
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Game 50: B.A.T. - Forced Into Submission (Request for Assistance)
By AperamaAgeless, Faceless, Gender-Neutral, Human Adventure Person's Journal #3:“This city is not the place for me! It feels like every way I turn, I get shot at! Thankfully, I have a pretty good...
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Game 52: King's Quest V – An owl in need is an owl indeed
King Graham of Daventry Journal Entry #5: "I've finally made it. Mordack's castle is just ahead and in it, my captured family. It was a long journey on water, sand and ice, and I nearly lost my friend,...
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Game 50: B.A.T. - Gettin' Bizzy Wit It
By AperamaDuke Garland's Journal, Vol. 2: “I have recovered the first of the Tears of Esmeranti! Despite a perilous journey through the cavern of Malicia, I have emerged victorious against the evil...
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Game 52: King's Quest V - Time to Let the Cat Out of the Bag - Request for...
King Graham of Daventry Journal entry #5:My boat's shipwrecked on Mordack's island and I've explored his castle as thoroughly as I can think of, but I've no way to defeat the fiend or rescue my family....
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Game 50: B.A.T. - Merigo 'Round + WON!
Written by Aperama (mostly)Special delivery from the B.A.T. headquartersSpecial agents Mr. T and Mr. I"Have we heard anything from our best operative yet?"" Not a word. Last time we heard, Mr. A was...
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Game 52: King's Quest V - Won!
Written by TBDKing Graham of Daventry Journal Entry #7:It's finally over! Mordack is dead and my family is safe - I may even have found my son a suitable royal wife into the bargain. All I had to do...
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Game 50: B.A.T. - Final rating
Written by AperamaWelcome to your inevitable demiseI can really only say so many times how much I dislike this game. That said? I really, really dislike this game. There's just nothing about it that...
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Game 52: King's Quest V - Final Rating
Written by TBDIn trying to rate King's Quest V I tried to compare it by what came before, particularly the previous King's Quest games. King's Quest V has the disability of coming out soon after The...
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The Year That Was… 1990
By TAG reviewersFEATURING TRICKSTER!1990 was NOT a year dominated by Sierra! In fact, almost no game of the Sierra main series was published this year, and even those published had something new in...
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