King's Quest VI: Heir Today, Gone Tomorrow is a point-and-click adventure game, first released in 1992 as the sixth installment in the King's Quest series produced by Sierra On-Line. Written by Roberta Williams and Jane Jensen, King's Quest VI is widely recognized as the high point in the series for its landmark 3D graphic introduction movie and professional voice acting. King's Quest VI was programmed in Sierra's Creative Interpreter and was the last King's Quest game to be released on floppy disk. A CD-ROM version of the game was released in 1993, including more character voices, a slightly different opening movie and more detailed artwork and animation.
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Screenshot from the Windows version displaying the interface of the functions toolbar and inventory; on the left is the player character Prince Alexander
Robby Benson voiced the protagonist Prince Alexander
Sierra provided a 50% discount to previous King's Quest owners to promote the purchase of the CD-ROM version, a then-emerging technology platform.
Roberta Lynn Williams is an American video game designer and writer, who co-founded Sierra On-Line with her husband, game developer Ken Williams. In 1980, her first game, Mystery House, became a modest commercial success; it is credited as the first graphic adventure game. She is also known for creating and maintaining the King's Quest series, as well as designing the full motion video game Phantasmagoria in 1995.
Roberta Williams in 2022
Ken Williams, Roberta's husband and co-founder of Sierra
Advertisement from On-Line Systems' June 1981 issue of 'The On-Line Letter for some Hi-Res Adventure games, including both Mystery House and The Wizard and the Princess
Roberta Williams at a celebration of On-Line Systems' first anniversary, 1981
