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Police Quest follows police officer Sonny Bonds as he investigates a drug cartel in the town of Lytton, California. First released in 1987 as a command-line interface game built on Sierra's AGI, Police Quest was remade in 1992 using 256-color VGA graphics and the SCI engine and used point-and-click gameplay.
Since January 18, 2011, the Police Quest 1–4 and Police Quest: SWAT 1 & 2 packs are internationally available at GOG.com in the form of digital downloads. The 2.0 installer for the Police Quest 1–4 pack added in the original EGA version of PQ1. In 2017, SWAT 3 and SWAT 4 were both added to GOG.
Police Quest and SWAT are a series of computer games produced and published by Sierra On-Line between 1987 and 2008. The original Police Quest series was composed of three adventure games designed by former policeman Jim Walls, and a fourth title designed by Daryl F. Gates. The later games in the series resulted in the renamed SWAT series.
Police Quest II: The Vengeance (also known as Police Quest II) is a 1988 police procedural adventure video game developed and published by Jim Walls and Sierra On-Line. It is the second installment in the Police Quest series. The game continues the story of police officer Sonny Bonds as he attempts to apprehend an escaped convict.
Jim Walls is an American video game designer.He is notable for having designed the successful Police Quest series of adventure games for Sierra On-Line.. After working as a California Highway Patrol officer from 1971 to 1986, Walls met Sierra president Ken Williams, who wished to create an adventure game in the police procedural genre.
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Open Season uses point-and-click gameplay. Icons for "walking", "speaking, "using", and "looking" are used rather than the text-parsing system used in the first two games. The mouse is used to select and interact with objects from the game world and the player's inventory, as well as to direct the player character around the various environments.
The difference between these two modes can only be seen on a composite monitor, where mode 0 disables the color burst, making all text appear in grayscale. Mode 1 enables the color burst, allowing for color. Mode 0 and Mode 1 are functionally identical on RGB monitors and on later adapters that emulate CGA without supporting composite color output.