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Kings Quest 1
Ah the heady days of 2001, when you could create an unofficial remake of a game from one of the most popular franchises of all time (at the time anyway), release it for free and not get sued or cease and desisted into oblivion! I’m sure the fact that Vivendi would not become actvision for a few years yet had nothing to do with it!
AGD interactive, a couple of guys going by the nice and subtle name of “Tierra” at the time, were the people responsible and turned to (where else 
) AGS to make it. The game was, understandably, very popular and after a couple of years, voice acting was added and they even managed to land Josh Mandel who had voiced King Graham in actual real life KQV & VI to play Graham in the remake. They later went on to remake KQ2 and KQ3 as well as QFG2. You may well know them from their later commercial titles, El Ammo and Mage’s initiation.
The KQ1 remake is a huge improvement on the original, being in more of a KQV style graphically and with point’n’click interface rather than parser. It is also not the same game as Sierra’s own KQ1VGA remake from 1990 which would be the one on your KQ collection. The VGA one was pretty much an exact remake with graphics in VGA, whereas the AGD one does make visual changes in terms of how some of the characters look etc. and some other things.
Anyway, it has been through some changes since 2001 and the current edition looks a fair bit better than the first one.
If you’ve never played KQ1 and you want to actually play the game to completion rather than just see a few screens of the original then this is the version I would suggest.
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Ah the heady days of 2001, when you could create an unofficial remake of a game from one of the most popular franchises of all time (at the time anyway), release it for free and not get sued or cease and desisted into oblivion!
I’m pretty sure you can still do that - as long as it’s not for profit.
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Ah the heady days of 2001, when you could create an unofficial remake of a game from one of the most popular franchises of all time (at the time anyway), release it for free and not get sued or cease and desisted into oblivion!
I’m pretty sure you can still do that - as long as it’s not for profit.
Depends on the publisher, Nintendo shut down a couple of fan projects. Konami recently shut down the Metal Gear remake. Not sure what happened to the Indiana Jones Fate of Atlantis remake.
Ah the heady days of 2001, when you could create an unofficial remake of a game from one of the most popular franchises of all time (at the time anyway), release it for free and not get sued or cease and desisted into oblivion!
I’m pretty sure you can still do that - as long as it’s not for profit.
I was more referring to the trouble Phoenix had with KQ9, although obviously that wasn’t actually a remake. However, technically I’m sure you are correct, subject to the publisher as Wilco says!
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The 4 AGDI remakes are great, although I guess my favourite is probably KQ2, where they managed to take a shitty, shitty game and turn it into a very fine one (that still managed to pay homage to the original).
I haven’t replayed the KQ series (originals or remakes) in forever; I should do that someday.
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The KQ1 remake is a huge improvement on the original, being in more of a KQV style graphically and with point’n’click interface rather than parser. It is also not the same game as Sierra’s own KQ1EGA remake from 1990 which would be the one on your KQ collection. That remake not only converted the graphics to EGA, but also made visual changes in terms of how some of the characters look etc. and some other things. The AGDI remake upgraded the graphics to VGA and added character portraits, while mostly staying very close to the EGA remake in most respects.
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it was nice the update they made were you can choose your game with the original dead ends or to totally avoid them.
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