King's Quest I: Quest for the Crown VGA is the unofficial remake of King's Quest I, made by Tierra (later known as AGD Interactive) fan company. It is heavily based on the official 1990 remake of KQ1 by Sierra for EGA. Tierra received a special fan license allowing them to make the game. It was later completely redone with an enhanced edition. Version 4.0, the Enhanced Edition is published under the AGDI name.
Enhanced Edition
King's Quest I: Quest for the Crown Enhanced Edition is an enhanced version of the unofficial King's Quest I: Quest for the Crown VGA by AGD Interactive. The game includes new enhanced game backgrounds and character dialog portraits. It also includes an optional "No-Dead Ends" gameplay mode. It also added full narrator speech and lip-synching for all characters. Full Vista support. Like the previous version it is heavily based on the official 1990 sci/ega remake of KQ1 by Sierra. Unlike previous versions full speech and music is included in the program instead of separate downloads.
AGDI received a special fan license allowing them to make the game.
Behind the scenes
Differences between KQ1SCI and KQ1VGA
While mainly a 1:1 remake of KQ1SCI, there are a few differences in the game. The main differences are that the game lacks some of the more obscure narrations seen in KQ1SCI, due to the vga version's lack of extra verbs such as 'smell', 'taste', etc. There were some specific bits that could be looked at in more detail, for example the leaves of the tree on the gnome's island would get a reference to how they shade from hot summer sun (this reference is missing in the VGA version). In addition some of the easter eggs such as trying to "pick lock" on the Door into Mountain is missing.
There are also a few places where designers took a slightly different art style, different choice of colors, for some of the screens in Daventry, even more so in the Enhanced 4.0 version.
Version History
Tierra Version 1.0, August 7th, 2001. Tierra's King's Quest I VGA is released.
Version 2.0, September 1st, 2001. Voice pack supported edition. Voiceback was a separate download.
Version 3.0, October 1st, 2003, features translation pack support, bug fixes, optimized music and speech packs, and more. AGDI Version 4.0, January 17th, 2009, King's Quest I: Quest for the Crown Enhanced Edition (AGDI) This build removed the translation support seen in the previous version. It however includes the music and speech packs as part of the game download, as well as adding a plethora of touch-ups, embellishments, improvements, and many other new features to the game.