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Quest for Glory I: So You Want to Be a Hero
 

"Share in the drama, the excitement, and the fun of being a real Hero."


Developer Sierra On-Line
Publisher(s) Sierra On-Line
October 13, 1989
Platform PC
Perspective Third-Person
Presentation 2D or 2.5D
Control Point-and-click, Text parser
Gameplay Hybrid - RPG
Graphic Style Illustrated realism
Action (compulsory) Combat
Media CD, 3.5" diskettes
Red flags Game-over events
Genre Fantasy
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Quest for Glory IV: Shadows of Darkness
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Quest for Glory II: Trial by Fire

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King's Quest 9
Gabriel Knight 3: Blood of the Sacred, Blood of the Damned
Quest for Glory V: Dragon Fire
King's Quest: Mask Of Eternity
Shivers Two: Harvest of Souls
Lighthouse: The Dark Being
Leisure Suit Larry 7: Love for Sail!
Phantasmagoria: A Puzzle of Flesh
Shivers
Torin's Passage
Phantasmagoria
Space Quest 6: Roger Wilco in the Spinal Frontier
Gabriel Knight: The Beast Within
King's Quest VII: The Princeless Bride
Space Quest V: The Next Mutation
Quest for Glory IV: Shadows of Darkness
Dagger Of Amon Ra, The (A Laura Bow Mystery)
Pepper's Adventures in Time
Freddy Pharkas Frontier Pharmacist
Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers
Leisure Suit Larry 6: Shape Up or Slip Out!
Police Quest: Open Season (Daryl F. Gates')
EcoQuest 2: Lost Secret of the Rainforest
Quest for Glory III: Wages of War
King's Quest VI: Heir Today, Gone Tomorrow
Police Quest 3: The Kindred
Leisure Suit Larry 5: Passionate Patti Does a Little Undercover Work
Space Quest IV: Roger Wilco and the Time Rippers
EcoQuest: The Search for Cetus
Conquests of the Longbow: The Legend of Robin Hood
King's Quest V: Absence Makes the Heart Go Yonder
Quest for Glory II: Trial by Fire
Conquests of Camelot: The Search for the Grail
Codename: ICEMAN
Colonel's Bequest, The (A Laura Bow Mystery)
Space Quest III: The Pirates of Pestulon
Leisure Suit Larry 3: Passionate Patti in Pursuit of the Pulsating Pectorals
Gold Rush!
King's Quest IV: The Perils of Rosella
Leisure Suit Larry Goes Looking for Love (In Several Wrong Places)
Police Quest 2: The Vengeance
Space Quest II: Vohaul's Revenge
Police Quest: In Pursuit of the Death Angel
Leisure Suit Larry in the Land of the Lounge Lizards
King's Quest III: To Heir is Human
Space Quest I: The Sarien Encounter
King's Quest II: Romancing the Throne
King's Quest: Quest for the Crown
Technical Information
Version info
Originally released as Hero's Quest: So You Want to be a Hero.

An updated VGA version was released by Sierra in 1991.

System requirements
MS-DOS
286 processor
640 KB RAM
3.5” drive
VGA, EGA

Known issues
n/a


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