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Quest for Glory

Index Quest for Glory

Quest for Glory is a series of hybrid adventure/role-playing video games, which were designed by Corey and Lori Ann Cole. [1]

65 relations: Action role-playing game, Adventure game, Adventure Game Studio, African literature, AGD Interactive, Amiga, Anachronism, Arabs, Atari ST, Baba Yaga, Board game, Cardinal direction, Castle of Dr. Brain, Character class, Classic Mac OS, Classical element, Destructoid, Easter egg (media), Egyptian mythology, Engadget, Enhanced Graphics Adapter, Fairy tale, GameRankings, Games Workshop, German folklore, Germanic mythology, GOG.com, Greek mythology, Hero, HeroQuest, Kotaku, Mad scientist, Magic (supernatural), Magic sword, Microsoft Windows, Middle Eastern folklore, Milton Bradley Company, MS-DOS, Mythology, One Thousand and One Nights, Paladin (character class), PC-9800 series, Pizza, Polygon (website), Pun, Puzzle, Quest for Glory, Quest for Glory II: Trial by Fire, Quest for Glory III: Wages of War, Quest for Glory V: Dragon Fire, ..., Quest for Glory: Shadows of Darkness, Quest for Glory: So You Want to Be a Hero, Role-playing, Role-playing game, Role-playing video game, Sierra Entertainment, Slavic paganism, Tetralogy, Thief (character class), Thieves' guild, Traditional African religions, Video Graphics Array, Warrior (character class), Wizard (character class), Word play. Expand index (15 more) »

Action role-playing game

Action role-playing video games (abbreviated action RPG or ARPG) are a subgenre of role-playing video games.

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Adventure game

An adventure game is a video game in which the player assumes the role of a protagonist in an interactive story driven by exploration and puzzle-solving.

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Adventure Game Studio

Adventure Game Studio (acronym AGS) is an open source development tool that is primarily used to create graphic adventure games.

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African literature

African literature is literature of or from Africa and includes oral literature (or "orature", in the term coined by Ugandan scholar Pio Zirimu).

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AGD Interactive

AGD Interactive (AGDI), LLC.

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Amiga

The Amiga is a family of personal computers introduced by Commodore in 1985.

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Anachronism

An anachronism (from the Greek ἀνά ana, "against" and χρόνος khronos, "time") is a chronological inconsistency in some arrangement, especially a juxtaposition of persons, events, objects, or customs from different periods of time.

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Arabs

Arabs (عَرَب ISO 233, Arabic pronunciation) are a population inhabiting the Arab world.

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Atari ST

The Atari ST is a line of home computers from Atari Corporation and the successor to the Atari 8-bit family.

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Baba Yaga

In Slavic folklore, Baba Yaga is a supernatural being (or one of a trio of sisters of the same name) who appears as a deformed and/or ferocious-looking woman.

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Board game

A board game is a tabletop game that involves counters or moved or placed on a pre-marked surface or "board", according to a set of rules.

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Cardinal direction

The four cardinal directions or cardinal points are the directions north, east, south, and west, commonly denoted by their initials N, E, S, and W. East and west are at right angles to north and south, with east being in the clockwise direction of rotation from north and west being directly opposite east.

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Castle of Dr. Brain

Castle of Dr.

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Character class

In role-playing games (RPG), a character class is a job or profession commonly used to differentiate the abilities of different game characters.

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Classic Mac OS

Classic Mac OS is a colloquial term used to describe a series of operating systems developed for the Macintosh family of personal computers by Apple Inc. from 1984 until 2001.

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Classical element

Classical elements typically refer to the concepts in ancient Greece of earth, water, air, fire, and aether, which were proposed to explain the nature and complexity of all matter in terms of simpler substances.

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Destructoid

Destructoid is an independent website, that was founded as a video game-focused blog in March 2006 by Yanier Gonzalez.

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Easter egg (media)

In computer software and media, an Easter egg is an intentional inside joke, hidden message or image, or secret feature of a work.

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Egyptian mythology

Egyptian mythology is the collection of myths from ancient Egypt, which describe the actions of the Egyptian gods as a means of understanding the world.

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Engadget

Engadget is a multilingual technology blog network with daily coverage of gadgets and consumer electronics.

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Enhanced Graphics Adapter

The Enhanced Graphics Adapter (EGA) is an IBM PC computer display standard from 1984 that superseded and exceeded the capabilities of the CGA standard introduced with the original IBM PC, and was itself superseded by the VGA standard in 1987.

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Fairy tale

A fairy tale, wonder tale, magic tale, or Märchen is folklore genre that takes the form of a short story that typically features entities such as dwarfs, dragons, elves, fairies, giants, gnomes, goblins, griffins, mermaids, talking animals, trolls, unicorns, or witches, and usually magic or enchantments.

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GameRankings

GameRankings is a website that collects review scores from both offline and online sources to give an average rating.

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Games Workshop

Games Workshop Group PLC (often abbreviated as GW) is a British miniature wargaming manufacturing company based in Nottingham, England.

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German folklore

German folklore is the folk tradition which has developed in Germany over a number of centuries.

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Germanic mythology

Germanic mythology consists of the body of myths native to the Germanic peoples.

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GOG.com

GOG.com (formerly Good Old Games) is a digital distribution platform for video games and films.

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Greek mythology

Greek mythology is the body of myths and teachings that belong to the ancient Greeks, concerning their gods and heroes, the nature of the world, and the origins and significance of their own cult and ritual practices.

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Hero

A hero (masculine) or heroine (feminine) is a real person or a main character of a literary work who, in the face of danger, combats adversity through feats of ingenuity, bravery or strength; the original hero type of classical epics did such things for the sake of glory and honor.

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HeroQuest

HeroQuest, sometimes also written as Hero Quest, is an adventure board game created by Milton Bradley in conjunction with the British company Games Workshop.

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Kotaku

Kotaku is a video game website and blog that was originally launched in 2004 as part of the Gawker Media network.

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Mad scientist

Mad scientist (also mad doctor or mad professor) is a caricature of a scientist who is described as "mad" or "insane" owing to a combination of unusual or unsettling personality traits and the unabashedly ambitious, taboo or hubristic nature of their experiments.

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Magic (supernatural)

Magic is a category in Western culture into which have been placed various beliefs and practices considered separate from both religion and science.

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Magic sword

A magic sword is any mythological or fictional sword imbued with magical power to increase its strength or grant it other supernatural qualities.

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Microsoft Windows

Microsoft Windows is a group of several graphical operating system families, all of which are developed, marketed, and sold by Microsoft.

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Middle Eastern folklore

*Arab folklore.

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Milton Bradley Company

The Milton Bradley Company was an American board game manufacturer established by Milton Bradley in Springfield, Massachusetts, in 1860.

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MS-DOS

MS-DOS (acronym for Microsoft Disk Operating System) is an operating system for x86-based personal computers mostly developed by Microsoft.

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Mythology

Mythology refers variously to the collected myths of a group of people or to the study of such myths.

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One Thousand and One Nights

One Thousand and One Nights (ʾAlf layla wa-layla) is a collection of Middle Eastern folk tales compiled in Arabic during the Islamic Golden Age.

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Paladin (character class)

The Paladin (alternatively sometimes called Templar or Crusader) is a staple character class found in computer and pen and paper role-playing games.

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PC-9800 series

The, commonly shortened to PC-98, is a lineup of Japanese 16-bit and 32-bit personal computers manufactured by NEC from 1982 through 2000.

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Pizza

Pizza is a traditional Italian dish consisting of a yeasted flatbread typically topped with tomato sauce and cheese and baked in an oven.

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Polygon (website)

Polygon is an American video game website that publishes news, culture, reviews, and videos.

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Pun

The pun, also called paronomasia, is a form of word play that exploits multiple meanings of a term, or of similar-sounding words, for an intended humorous or rhetorical effect.

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Puzzle

A puzzle is a game, problem, or toy that tests a person's ingenuity or knowledge.

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Quest for Glory

Quest for Glory is a series of hybrid adventure/role-playing video games, which were designed by Corey and Lori Ann Cole.

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Quest for Glory II: Trial by Fire

Quest for Glory II: Trial by Fire is the second video game in Sierra On-Line's Quest for Glory series, and the sequel to Hero's Quest: So You Want to Be a Hero.

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Quest for Glory III: Wages of War

Quest for Glory III: Wages of War is a hybrid adventure/role-playing video game released in 1992 for MS-DOS.

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Quest for Glory V: Dragon Fire

Quest for Glory V: Dragon Fire is the fifth and final game in the Quest for Glory computer game series by Sierra FX, the former "sub brand" of Sierra Entertainment.

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Quest for Glory: Shadows of Darkness

Quest for Glory: Shadows of Darkness is an adventure game/role-playing video game hybrid.

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Quest for Glory: So You Want to Be a Hero

Quest for Glory: So You Want to Be a Hero (originally known as Hero's Quest: So You Want to Be a Hero) is a 1989 adventure game/role-playing game hybrid, designed by Lori Ann Cole and published by Sierra On-Line for MS-DOS.

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Role-playing

Role-playing is the changing of one's behaviour to assume a role, either unconsciously to fill a social role, or consciously to act out an adopted role.

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Role-playing game

A role-playing game (sometimes spelled roleplaying game and abbreviated to RPG) is a game in which players assume the roles of characters in a fictional setting.

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Role-playing video game

A role-playing video game (commonly referred to as simply a role-playing game or an RPG as well as a computer role-playing game or a CRPG) is a video game genre where the player controls the actions of a character (and/or several party members) immersed in some well-defined world.

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Sierra Entertainment

Sierra Entertainment, Inc. (formerly On-Line Systems and later Sierra On-Line, Inc.) was an American video game developer and publisher based in Bellevue, Washington.

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Slavic paganism

Slavic paganism or Slavic religion define the religious beliefs, godlores and ritual practices of the Slavs before the formal Christianisation of their ruling elites.

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Tetralogy

A tetralogy (from Greek τετρα- tetra-, "four" and -λογία -logia, "discourse") is a compound work that is made up of four distinct works.

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Thief (character class)

The Thief, Burglar, Scoundrel, or Rogue is a character class in many role-playing games, including Dungeons & Dragons, Final Fantasy, World of Warcraft and many MMORPGs.

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Thieves' guild

A thieves' guild is a concept in fiction consisting of a formal association of criminals who participate in theft-related organized crime in works of contemporary fantasy fiction, such as the Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser story "Thieves' House" by Fritz Leiber,, and similarly-themed fantasy role-playing games such as Dungeons & Dragons.

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Traditional African religions

The traditional African religions (or traditional beliefs and practices of African people) are a set of highly diverse beliefs that include various ethnic religions.

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Video Graphics Array

Video Graphics Array (VGA) is the display hardware first introduced with the IBM PS/2 line of computers in 1987, following CGA and EGA introduced in earlier IBM personal computers.

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Warrior (character class)

Warrior is a character class (or job) found in many role-playing games.

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Wizard (character class)

The Wizard is a type of magical character class in certain role-playing games, including role-playing video games.

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Word play

Word play or wordplay (also: play-on-words) is a literary technique and a form of wit in which words used become the main subject of the work, primarily for the purpose of intended effect or amusement.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quest_for_Glory

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