This week on retronauts, we attempt to spell Rumpel-Stilkin backwards. Oh, yeah. Hello everybody welcome to another episode of Retronauts. I'm your host for this one Bob Mackie and today

we'll be tackling the classic Sierra series Series Kings Quest for the first time and

covering Classic Sierra for the very first time in the 18 year history of

retinots. I planned on getting around to it at some point in my life.

Of course I had to cover every single LucasArts game first.

That's just where my preferences come in.

But thankfully, one of our top tier patrons came along and forced my hand in a very friendly way by supporting the

show at a very high level and putting in their request.

And just in time for King's Quest's 40th anniversary.

So before I go on any further, who is the top tier patron here with us today who sponsored this episode?

Hi everyone, my name is Dan Glass. I'm a clinical psychologist and I don't have any real gaming credentials other than I play them.

So thanks for having me.

And then maybe at some point throughout this episode you can let us know if anyone has gone clinically

insane by some of the puzzles in the Kings Quest series.

Okay, we'll talk about it. And who else do we have? Who is our other guest on the line today?

Hi there, I'm one Shorti and in this podcast you can call me Matt which is perfectly fine. I run a channel called

one short eye where I talk about adventure game speed runs. It's mostly Sierra

centric because that is what my dad bought when I was a kid and

those games have stayed in my brain and marinated there ever since despite my best

efforts to get rid of them. So love them and yeah that's me.

Welcome to the show Matt and I think Matt I didn't have a chance to look up the latest

rankings but at one point you were the number three rolled speedrunner of

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