King's Quest V ports the Sierra On-Line adventure on Konami NES with King Graham crossing Daventry in search of his kidnapped family. The representation offers point and click adventure with inventory and puzzles in an adapted original Sierra license formula. Honest for NES adventure fans, curiosity of the 8 bit ported Konami catalog.
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Adventure1 player7+
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Point-and-click adventure game featuring King Graham from the King's Quest series.
Complete: box, manual and disc/cart very clean. Lightly handled.
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NES port of Sierra's point-and-click adventure, issued in 1992 by Konami just as the genre was fading on the console. Adapting a PC title to a streamlined cartridge interface meant a quiet print run. Complete boxed copies command a strong premium because clean examples are scarce, the cardboard tending to wear on these late, low-turnover releases. The appeal rests on the oddity of a King's Quest squeezed into NES form.
Is King's Quest V still worth playing in 2026?
A point and click adventure from Sierra and carried over by Konami, King's Quest V follows King Graham in a quest to save his family and castle, across varied settings and sometimes tricky puzzles. The fairy tale story, the exploration and the puzzle solving are the whole appeal of this founding Western adventure series, here adapted to the controller. The NES port simplifies the original but keeps the plot. For a fan of retro adventure or someone curious about point and click on console, the title keeps a narrative and heritage interest.
