Kings Quest 1, 2, & 3 are Free to Download for Mac – Blast from the Past!
If you grew up in the 80′s and you had an interest in video games plus a computer, you probably played Kings Quest. Now, you can relive the past for free thanks to AGD Interactive, who has remade and redrawn Kings Quest 1: Quest for the Crown, Kings Quest 2: Romancing the Stones, and Kings Quest 3: To Heir is Human, and released the three versions as a free download from their website.
Each KQ game has a great storyline with a ton of game play with those now classic retro pixelated graphics. The series was a big hit for DOS, Apple II, Apple IIGS, Mac, even Amiga, but even if you haven’t played it before and you’re just a fan of retro adventure games, you’ll also get a kick out of the Kings Quest lineup.
Download Kings Quest 1, 2, & 3 for Free
AGD Interactive offers each version as a free download for Mac or Windows:
- Kings Quest 1: Quest for the Crown – Direct Download for Mac or Windows
- Kings Quest 2: Romancing the Stones – Direct Download for Mac or Windows
- Kings Quest 3: To Heir is Human – Direct Download for Mac or Windows
The games run flawlessly and the system requirements are quite low so you should be able to play them on just about any Intel Mac or a Pentium PC if you’d rather play on office time.
Kings Quest is a great blast from the past, highly recommended!
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Awesome. These games bring back memories of good times with friends after school everyday. None of which we could beat without the hint book.
Kings Quest 3 was so freaking hard, it’s not any easier now as an adult, I just played for an hour and am stuck on the same problems I hit when I was 5 on an IIGS, LOL
@Carlos
Then it means you haven’t got any smarter.
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This rocks. All the fun without having to swap out floppies!
That’s what she said!
Awesome article. Love these games. Gaming today sucks these are true RPGS!
Works perfectly, these are great classics.
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I’m using OS X 10, and when I try to open the program, nothing is happening. I get the ‘this was downloaded from the internet, do you want to open’ warning, and after I click on that the KQ icon appears and then disappears. Any ideas?
Hey Sarah,
Your browser is just wanting to confirm the app download, afterwards it is likely unzipped and stored in your Downloads folder or as an image file that needs to be mounted. Something like “Kq1vga41c.dmg” which can be mounted and the app installed as usual, by dragging to your /Applications/ folder.
Hope that helps, have fun!
Will,
I tried what you said and it didn’t work. Any other suggestions?
doesn’t seem to work on lion
Doesn’t work for me on lion either…installer file won’t open.
HELP!! I’ve got a macbook pro, have downloaded the game, but when i try to open it it says ‘Are you sure you want to open it?’ I click ‘Open’
Then it says ‘The application CXSkin quit unexpectedly.’
What shall I do?
Please could someone explain, I have no idea what to do and am ignorant as regards computers and software!!
Thanks
I downloaded Boxer it worked perfectly for this!
which file did you launch for these games once you imported it on boxer. i downloaded boxer and imported all these games like it said but the game doesn’t start, it gives a list of files to choose from. none of them start the game. can you help?
Ah, I thought I hit the 80s jackpot, but alas these games don’t work on my computer, even though it meets or exceeds all of the requirements!!! Too bad, I would pay good money to play these games…. maybe $$THOUSANDS$$
Thousands? Hell I’ll build you a system that will play them for thousands.
I got all excited. These were the first Sierra games I played (back in the day…as a kid), but alas I can’t get KQI to run on Lion.
((((((((
Sad that this won’t run on Lion. On the other hand, VirtualBox is free so I’ll probably be setting up a WinXP VM where I’m sure it will run just fine.
Any ideas on how to make it work in Lion? Other than run windows inside of Lion…
I’m not on Lion thank god but I find the mouse/curser moves so slowly it makes playing these 3 versions incredibly tedious. I just played no. 6 formatted for Mac and that ran beautifully.
Can anyone help? Is there some other software i need to load to speed it up?
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Ok I have Mac Leopard. I’m also getting “The application CXSkin quit unexpectedly.” I then downloaded Boxer but the game won’t import.
Any suggestions?
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the first one doesnt even work on my macbook….wtf…
disappointed but hopefully the other 2 work!
Just FYI, these are the re-mastered versions brought out in the early 90s to replace the boxy graphics of the originals. Gameplay/choices are mostly the same but IIRC the remastered KQI has a few bugs, don’t know if these releases fix that.
Still looking for the originals myself, love me some boxy graphics.
Also- Where to find 4, 5, and 6?!
There is a collectors edition with every game from the series you can got of amazon or ebay for like 10 dollars.
I was so excited to find these games. Spent many a hour as a kid playing these……but then Lion won’t open them. Damn you Apple, damn you to hell!
Any way to get all three to play on OSX Lion?