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King's Quest VI: Heir Today, Gone Tomorrow
 

"Prince Alexander is washed up on the shores of the Green Isles, where he must rescue his lady love from the clutches of an evil vizier."


Developer Sierra On-Line
Publisher(s) Sierra On-Line
September 30, 1992
Platform PC , Mac
Perspective Third-Person
Presentation 2D or 2.5D
Control Point-and-click
Gameplay Quest
Graphic Style Stylized art
Media CD, 3.5" diskettes
Genre Fantasy
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King's Quest VI: Heir Today, Gone Tomorrow review
King's Quest VI is a love story for the ages, as the prince of Daventry seeks romance and Sierra finally delivers the game that everyone can fondly embrace.
Score: ****1/2
May 16, 2008
#3: King's Quest VI: Heir Today, Gone Tomorrow (CD-ROM version) top 20
King's Quest VI: Heir Today, Gone Tomorrow (CD-ROM version) is #3 in the Top 20 Adventure Games of All-Time.
April 2, 2004


Content Ratings
US rating (ESRB)

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Other games in the 'King's Quest' series
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King's Quest: Mask Of Eternity
King's Quest VII: The Princeless Bride
King's Quest V: Absence Makes the Heart Go Yonder
King's Quest IV: The Perils of Rosella
King's Quest III: To Heir is Human
King's Quest II: Romancing the Throne
King's Quest: Quest for the Crown

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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
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Space Quest 6: Roger Wilco in the Spinal Frontier
Gabriel Knight: The Beast Within
King's Quest VII: The Princeless Bride
Quest for Glory IV: Shadows of Darkness
Space Quest V: The Next Mutation
Pepper's Adventures in Time
Dagger Of Amon Ra, The (A Laura Bow Mystery)
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
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
Colonel's Bequest, The (A Laura Bow Mystery)
Space Quest III: The Pirates of Pestulon
Codename: ICEMAN
Leisure Suit Larry 3: Passionate Patti in Pursuit of the Pulsating Pectorals
Quest for Glory I: So You Want to Be a Hero
King's Quest IV: The Perils of Rosella
Gold Rush!
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
Space Quest I: The Sarien Encounter
King's Quest III: To Heir is Human
King's Quest II: Romancing the Throne
King's Quest: Quest for the Crown
Technical Information
Version info
Originally released on 3.5" floppy; CD-ROM version released in 1993. Re-released as part of the King's Quest Collection Series (1999) and the King’s Quest Collection (2006).

System requirements
1999 Collection Series:
MS-DOS or Windows 3.1/95
486/25 MHz processor
8 MB RAM
2x CD-ROM drive
SVGA 640x480, 256 color
Sound card with DAC

2006 Collection:
Windows 2000/XP
Pentium III 800 MHz or equivalent Athlon processor
128 MB RAM
Windows compatible video and sound card
CD-ROM drive
1.2 GB hard drive space

Known issues
n/a


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