History Trivia / KingsQuestVIHeirTodayGoneTomorrow

* ActorAllusion: One of the puzzles is based on "Literature/BeautyAndTheBeast". The game stars Robby Benson and Tony Jay, who had recently appeared in the Creator/{{Disney}} [[Disney/BeautyAndTheBeast version of that story]]. (Mind you, the Beast in the game was actually voiced by someone else) though a NonstandardGameOver can cause Alexander to [[LampshadeHanging become a beast himself]].

* PromotedFangirl: Jane Jensen was inspired to enter the video game industry after playing ''VideoGame/KingsQuestIVThePerilsOfRosella''.

* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: The version available from Website/GOGDotCom intially packaged the DOS version, which lacks the high-resolution character ports and interface. Fortunately, users could access it through [=ScummVM=]. GOG did later issue a version using [=ScummVM=] with the Windows version.

* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: The version available from Website/GOGDotCom packages the DOS version, which lacks the high-resolution character ports and interface. Fortunately, you can access it through [=ScummVM=].

* FanNickname: The Cliffs of Logic are often known by fans of the VideoGame/KingsQuest series as "The Cliffs of CopyProtection".
* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: The version available from Creator/GOGDotCom packages the DOS version, which lacks the high-resolution character ports and interface. Fortunately, you can access it through [=ScummVM=].

* TheWikiRule: The [[http://kingsquest.wikia.com/wiki/King%27s_Quest_Omnipedia King's Quest Omnipedia]].

** The original plan for the Winged Ones was to have them be entirely albino, looking rather like ancient Roman statues whose paint has worn off--with marble-white skin, white hair, and blank white eyes. This was even to extend to their clothing. In the final game they look more like actual flesh-and-blood Romans instead.

* ActorAllusion: One of the puzzles is based on "Literature/BeautyAndTheBeast". The game stars Robby Benson and Tony Jay, who had recently appeared in the Creator/{{Disney}} [[Disney/BeautyAndTheBeast version of that story]]. (Mind you, the Beast in the game was actually voiced by someone else) though a NonStandardGameOver can cause Alexander to [[LampshadeHanging become a beast himself]].

* HeyItsThatVoice: You will be doing this a LOT. Sierra sprung for a high-end voice cast, one of the first video game companies to do so.

* BreakthroughHit: Creator/JaneJensen's first game design.

* PromotedFangirl: Jane Jensen was inspired to go into the video game industry after playing ''VideoGame/KingsQuestIVThePerilsOfRosella''.

* PromotedFangirl: Jane Jensen was inspired to go into the video game industry after playing ''KingsQuestIVThePerilsOfRosella''.

* ActorAllusion: One of the puzzles is based on "Literature/BeautyAndTheBeast". The game stars Robby Benson and Tony Jay, who had recently appeared in the {{Disney}} [[Disney/BeautyAndTheBeast version of that story]]. (Mind you, the Beast in the game was actually voiced by someone else) though a NonStandardGameOver can cause Alexander to [[LampshadeHanging become a beast himself]].

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: There were earlier drafts on the game script that were different than in the final product, such as differences in the puzzles (for example, there were clues on the walls of the Catacombs that would tell you how to move around the Catacombs) and in the storylines (e.g., the copper Daventry coin had the face of Queen Valanice rather than King Graham; Alexander sending a wrong poem to Cassima; the old coins being made out of gold rather than copper; the black feather remaining black rather than changing color after stirring in the teacup of the Magic Paint mixture; and the "Drink Me" Potion bottle being empty[[spoiler:, forcing Alex (and the Pawn Shop Owner) [[TimeForPlanB to go into Plan B]], i.e., FakingTheDead rather than a FauxDeath]]). In spite of this, many of these drafts either changed or never came into fruition at all. All of these can be found in the {{Novelization}} of the game in the ''King's Quest Companion Booklet''.

* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: The version available from Creator/GOGDotCom packages the DOS version o, which lacks the high-resolution character ports and interface. Fortunately, you can access it through [=ScummVM=].

* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: The version available from Creator/GOGCom packages the DOS version, which lacks the high-resolution character ports and interface. Fortunately, you can access it through [=ScummVM=].

* ShoutOut: The swimming boy is Adam from EcoQuest, except his trunks look darker.

* ActorAllusion: One of the puzzles is based on "Literature/BeautyAndTheBeast". The game stars Robby Benson and Tony Jay, who had recently appeared in the {{Disney}} [[Disney/BeautyAndTheBeast version of that story]]. (Mind you, the Beast in the game was actually voiced by someone else)

** The original plan for the Winged Ones was to have them be entirely albino, looking rather like ancient Roman statues--marble-white skin, white hair, and blank white eyes. This was even to extend to their clothing. In the final game they look more like actual flesh-and-blood Romans instead.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: There were earlier drafts on the game script that were different than in the final product, such as differences in the puzzles (for example, there were clues on the walls of the Catacombs that would tell you how to move around the Catacombs) and in the storylines (e.g., the copper Daventry coin had the face of Queen Valanice rather than King Graham; Alexander sending a wrong poem to Cassima; the old coins being made out of gold rather than copper; the black feather remaining black rather than changing color after stirring in the teacup of the Magic Paint mixture; and the "Drink Me" Potion bottle being empty[[spoiler:, forcing Alex (and the Pawn Shop Owner) [[TimeForPlanB to go into Plan B]], i.e., FakingTheDead rather than a FauxDeath]]). In spite of this, many of these drafts either changed or never came into fruition at all. All of these can be found in the {{Novelization}} of the game in the ''King's Quest Companion Booklet''.

* FanNickname: The Cliffs of Logic are often known by fans of the KingsQuest series as "The Cliffs of CopyProtection".

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: There were earlier drafts on the game script that were different than in the final product, such as differences in the puzzles (for example, there were clues on the walls of the Catacombs that would tell you how to move around the Catacombs) and in the storylines (e.g., the copper Daventry coin had the face of Queen Valanice rather than King Graham; Alexander sending a wrong poem to Cassima; the old coins being made out of gold rather than copper; the black feather remaining black rather than changing color after stirring in the teacup of the Magic Paint mixture; and the "Drink Me" Potion bottle being empty[[spoiler:, forcing Alex (and the Pawn Shop Owner) [[TimeForPlanB to go into Plan B]] rather than a FauxDeath]]). In spite of this, many of these drafts either changed or never came into fruition at all. All of these can be found in the {{Novelization}} of the game in the ''King's Quest Companion Booklet''.

* TalkingToHimself: Don Messick voices the Sense Gnomes, as well as Ali.

* HeyItsThatVoice: You will be doing this a LOT. Sierra sprung for a high-end voice cast, one of the first video game companies to do so.