King's Quest V

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King's Quest V: Absence Makes the Heart Go Yonder! is an adventure game developed by Sierra On-Line. It was published originally for PCs and home computers in 1990 and ported to other computers in 1991 and the Nintendo Entertainment System in 1992. The fifth entry in the King's Quest series, the game follows King Graham of Daventry as he journeys through the pseudo-medieval fairy tale-inspired realm of Serenia, on a quest to rescue his family from the wizard Mordack. It is presented as an interconnected set of locations, or flip-screens, with a pseudo-3D art style. The player interacts with locations and items using an icon-based point-and-click interface, a first for the series, and must avoid numerous hazards and obstacles in their quest. King's Quest V was developed by Sierra using an expanded version of the game engine that was originally developed for King's Quest IV (1988), the Sierra Creative Interpreter, and was one of the first games to be released on CD-ROM. Other versions of...

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