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King's Quest IV: The Perils of Rosella
 

"Princess Rosella journeys to the land of Tamir in search of a magical healing fruit when her father, King Graham, suffers a serious illness."


Developer Sierra On-Line
Publisher(s) Sierra On-Line
1988
Platform PC , Retro
Perspective Third-Person
Presentation 2D or 2.5D
Control Text parser, Keyboard
Gameplay Quest
Graphic Style Stylized art
Media CD, 3.5" diskettes, Proprietary format
Red flags Game-over events
Genre Fantasy
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King's Quest IV: The Perils of Rosella review
With Sierra back in the limelight, Flashback Friday returns teary-eyed to the classic King's Quest series.
Score: ***1/2
September 29, 2006


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US rating (ESRB)

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King's Quest VI: Heir Today, Gone Tomorrow
King's Quest V: Absence Makes the Heart Go Yonder
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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Torin's Passage
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Space Quest 6: Roger Wilco in the Spinal Frontier
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King's Quest VII: The Princeless Bride
Quest for Glory IV: Shadows of Darkness
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Leisure Suit Larry 6: Shape Up or Slip Out!
Police Quest: Open Season (Daryl F. Gates')
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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
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Quest for Glory II: Trial by Fire
King's Quest V: Absence Makes the Heart Go Yonder
Conquests of Camelot: The Search for the Grail
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Colonel's Bequest, The (A Laura Bow Mystery)
Space Quest III: The Pirates of Pestulon
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Quest for Glory I: So You Want to Be a Hero
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
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Space Quest I: The Sarien Encounter
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King's Quest II: Romancing the Throne
King's Quest: Quest for the Crown
Technical Information
Version info
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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