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King's Quest III
moments

Scenes from the 1986 game, captured from the engine's own frame buffer with the score line cropped away. Sixteen EGA colours at 2×. Pick a tag to wander.

Caught with magic. Manannan appears on the stairs in a puff of smoke, points, and reduces Gwydion to a pile of ash.

>room 7 · 21.4 s · 238 KB

The big one. Manannan sits down to a bowl of porridge laced with the cat cookie, and Gwydion's master is a housecat for the rest of his days.

>room 8 · 16.2 s · 225 KB

Caught outside for the first time. Manannan materialises on the mountain path, lets it slide, and poofs Gwydion back to the dining room.

>room 18 · 16.9 s · 133 KB

With Manannan away in town, Gwydion moves a book on the study shelf, works the lever behind it, and a trapdoor opens onto the stairs to the laboratory.

>room 5 · 26.6 s · 74 KB

Each moment is reproducible from a scene script that drives the original game in a patched ScummVM; the GIF is exactly what the interpreter drew. Room numbers are Sierra's own.