The Legend of Kyrandia

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99K plays 1992 #Adventure

The Legend of Kyrandia: Book One is a point-and-click adventure game developed by Westwood Studios and published by Virgin Games in August 1992. It was originally released for MS-DOS, then ported to Amiga, FM Towns, Mac, and PC-98. It is the first in the Legend of Kyrandia series, and focuses on players taking on the role of a young prince who must put an end to the tyrannical chaos of an evil court jester.

The game proved a commercial success and was praised for many of its elements. Its success spawned two sequels: The Legend of Kyrandia: Hand of Fate in 1993; and The Legend of Kyrandia: Malcolm's Revenge in 1994.

From Wikipedia's article The Legend of Kyrandia, 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.

From the manual, page 4

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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.

From the manual, page 4

Open the manual at page 4

Emulator help & troubleshooting

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Pixel Verdict

The Legend of KyrandiaDOS

4.0 Great job!

Players 81 · 242 votes

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What the critics said

  • In 1992, Computer Gaming World's Robin Matthews described The Legend of Kyrandia "as a cross between Loom, King's Quest V and Secret of Monkey Island 2", praising the "beautifully drawn" VGA graphics and humor.

    — Computer Gaming World (Robin Matthews de)

From the Reception section of Wikipedia's The Legend of Kyrandia article, under CC BY-SA 4.0. The words are the critics'; their full reviews are on the publishers' pages.

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