EcoQuest: The Search for Cetus

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EcoQuest: The Search for Cetus is an educational adventure game by Sierra On-Line. The original concept was developed by Sierra VP of Creative Development, Bill Davis. The game designers were Jane Jensen and Gano Haine. The game was planned to be ported to the Amiga and Macintosh, but those versions were never published. A sequel, Lost Secret of the Rainforest, was released in 1993.

The last of Sierra's various Quest series, EcoQuest is designed to teach about the importance of environmental ethics. The games are considerably easier than most Sierra adventures and cannot be lost or rendered unwinnable. Both use a fully mouse-driven version of SCI1, in the manner of Space Quest IV and King's Quest VI. The Search for Cetus was released first on floppy disk, then on CD-ROM with full speech in 1992.

From Wikipedia's article EcoQuest: The Search for Cetus, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0

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This is a PC game: it uses the keyboard the way it did under MS-DOS, and the mouse where the game supports it. Click the game screen first so it gets your key presses.

Many DOS games start with a menu or ask a question first — read the screen and answer with the keyboard. Arrow keys, Enter, Space, Ctrl and Alt are the usual game keys.

Emulator help & troubleshooting

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