King's Quest V: Absence Makes the Heart Go Yonder
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| Release Date:
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1990
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| Project Status:
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N/A
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| Developer(s):
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Sierra
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| Publisher:
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Sierra, Konami (NES)
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| Designer(s):
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Template:Roberta Williams
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| Source Available:
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No
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| Category:
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Full Release
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| Type:
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| Genre:
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Adventure
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| Theme(s):
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| Engine:
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SCI1
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| Platform:
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Template:MS-DOS, Windows 3x, Template:Macintosh, Amiga, Template:Atari ST, Template:Apple II, Template:Apple IIGS, Amiga, Template:Atari ST, Template:Tandy Color Computer 3, FM Towns, Template:PC-98, NES
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| Localization:
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English, Spanish, German, Italian, French
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| Website:
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www.sierra.com
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King's Quest V: Absence Makes the Heart Go Yonder is the fifth installment of the King's Quest Series.
Description
In keeping with Sierra's tradition of using cutting edge technology in its current games they were developing, King's Quest V: Absence Makes the Heart Go Yonder is Sierra's first VGA game and one of the first ever VGA games. The game featured Sierra's new Point & Click interface. The MPC re-release was one of Sierra's first CD-ROM games. The huge increase in storage capacity allowed for both digital sound effects and speech files, making it Sierra's first talkie adventure game. To accommodate the addition of the digital audio files, the SCI1 interpreter had a new type of resource added, AUD. Prior SCI games had to embed digital samples (only 8-bit mono) in a SOUND resource. The size was limited to just 65536 bytes, total. Small digital samples could also be included in the MT-32 sound track, but this was limited to those lucky few who owned a Roland MT-32 module. The full AUDIO resources only required the user to have a digital sound card.
Versions
SCI1 (early)
| Game |
Game version |
Interpreter version |
Date
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| King's Quest V VGA |
0.000.051 |
1.000.060 |
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| King's Quest V VGA |
0.000.062 |
1.000.060 |
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SCI1 (late)
| Game |
Game version |
Interpreter version |
Date
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| King's Quest V VGA (Fr./Eng.) |
1.000 |
1.000.784 |
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| King's Quest V VGA (Ger./Eng.) |
1.000 |
1.000.784 |
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| King's Quest V VGA (Sp./Eng.) |
1.000 |
1.000.784 |
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SCI1 (unknown)
| Game |
Game version |
Interpreter version |
Date
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| King's Quest V EGA |
0.000.055 |
1.000.058 |
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| King's Quest V EGA |
0.000.062 |
1.000.073 |
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Unknown versions
| Game |
Game version |
Interpreter version |
Date
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| King's Quest V (CD) (SCI11) |
1.000.052 |
x.yyy.yyy |
1990
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Screenshots
Story
About
Downloads
GOG
New Installer
- Requires files from the original distribution media. Works with all versions of the game.
Demos
- King's Quest V Demo - None known
Patches
Walkthroughs/Hints
Related Links
