Hero’s Quest: So You Want To Be A Hero

D
MS-DOS 0 subscribers
Manual

73K plays 1989 #RPG#Adventure

Quest for Glory: So You Want to Be a Hero (originally released as Hero's Quest: So You Want to Be a Hero) is a 1989 adventure game/role-playing game hybrid, designed by Corey Cole and Lori Ann Cole and published by Sierra On-Line for MS-DOS. It is the first game in the Quest for Glory series, and established the series' trademark mix of graphical adventure gaming with role-playing-like elements such as statistic building (strength, intelligence, health) that would affect the ability to accomplish certain tasks in the game. The game has a satirical and silly tone. Ports for the Amiga, Atari ST, and NEC PC-9801 were released in the early 1990s. A VGA remake with enhanced graphics, titled Quest for Glory I: So You Want to Be a Hero, was released in 1992 for MS-DOS, and later in 1994 for Mac OS.

From Wikipedia's article Quest for Glory: So You Want to Be a Hero, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0

Controls

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

Comments

Live chat

Connecting…

Chatting as a guest · Sign in to use your name
0/300

Controls

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

Videos

Quest for Glory I: So You Want To Be A Hero MS-DOS 59K plays • 1992
Robin Hood: Conquests of the Longbow MS-DOS 42K plays • 1991
King’s Quest V MS-DOS 44K plays • 1990
Police Quest: In Pursuit of the Death Angel MS-DOS 112K plays • 1987
King’s Quest II: Romancing the Throne MS-DOS 41K plays • 1985
The Secret of Monkey Island MS-DOS 383K plays • 1990
Eamon MS-DOS 19K plays • 1980
Winnie the Pooh in the Hundred Acre Wood MS-DOS 126K plays • 1984
Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers MS-DOS 59K plays • 1993
EarthBound Beginnings (Mother) Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) 83K plays • 1989
Eye of the Beholder MS-DOS 139K plays • 1991
Loom MS-DOS 58K plays • 1990
Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis MS-DOS 213K plays • 1992
Maniac Mansion MS-DOS 77K plays • 1987
Ultima II: The Revenge of the Enchantress MS-DOS 13K plays • 1982
The Lord of the Rings, Vol. I MS-DOS 45K plays • 1990
The Legend of Kyrandia MS-DOS 99K plays • 1992
Dungeon Master II: The Legend of Skullkeep MS-DOS 154K plays • 1993
Wasteland MS-DOS 41K plays • 1988
Maniac Mansion: Day of the Tentacle MS-DOS 119K plays • 1993

Pixel Verdict

Hero’s Quest: So You Want To Be A HeroDOS

3.5 Good job

Players 75 · 117 votes

No critic scores found for this game: this is the players' rating.

What the reviews talk about

Key wordsexcellentsatisfyingcuteoriginalentertainingeasy

What the critics said

  • Compute! in 1993 said that Hero's Quest was "probably the most satisfying" Sierra game and that Quest for Glory was "in many ways a significant improvement", citing the Coles' rewriting of the original's text.

    — Compute!

  • The magazine praised its clay animation and stereo soundtrack, and recommended the game even to those who finished Hero's Quest, concluding that it was "a must-buy... hard to resist".

    — Compute!, 1993

  • He called it "a kinder, gentler form of role-playing game, and one particularly well suited to newcomers to the genre, especially those familiar with adventure gaming."

    — Macworld, 1995

  • Michael Baker of RPGamer scored the game 3.5 out of 5, writing that it is "a piece of RPGaming history that stands the test of time" that balances puzzles, gameplay, and writing to entertaining effect, while finding the game's pacing to be sometimes too slow.

    — RPGamer (Michael Baker)

From the Reception section of Wikipedia's Quest for Glory: So You Want to Be a Hero article, under CC BY-SA 4.0. The words are the critics'; their full reviews are on the publishers' pages.

Full reviews

Face key

  1. 1.00+
  2. 1.540+
  3. 2.050+
  4. 2.560+
  5. 3.068+
  6. 3.575+
  7. 4.080+
  8. 4.585+
  9. 5.090+

5.0 Outstanding! · 4.0 Great job! · 3.0 Good job · 2.0 Could be better · 1.0 Wake me up when it's over · A thumbs-up adds half a point. Our own drawings, in the spirit of the faces GamePro magazine used in the '90s.

Save to...