I was talking about Mystery House, not King's Quest...

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From: Jim Leonard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, January 17, 2003 11:16 AM
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Subject: Re: [SWCollect] King's Quest 1


"Feldhamer, Stuart" wrote:
> 
> Supposedly it was the first text adventure with graphics, but I suspect it
> would be difficult to prove this...

Hardly -- I remember playing Mask of the Sun in 1983, a full year before
King's Quest.  The very first interactive fiction game with graphics would
be
pretty hard to lock down -- I guess you can argue it was Mystery House, but
the parser in Mystery House is so pathetic that it barely qualifies as
interactive fiction :-)
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