Police Quest Collection

I love PQ1-Police Quest: Open Season. After Open Season it got bad. Daryl Gates's Open Season was eary and very tough, I needed the hint book. The only problem I have with this compilation is PQ1. I hated the VGA version (remake) and hoped both EGA and VGA were on the cd's. Unfortunatly EGA was left out. Similar to Leisure Suit Larry 1. I was very disapointed with both remakes of PQ1 and Leisure Suit Larry 1. Police Quest 1 dealt with the Death Angel Jesse Baines. You are Sonny Bonds regular police officer patrolling the streets until you get promoted to detective and try to track down the death angel. The ending was great and one of a kind. The hotel was the final (would of been the final meeting with Baines) part of the game. After you play poker for alittle while, you recognize Baines across from you and when you go back up to his hotel suite LOOK OUT!. Police Quest 2 had a different take on PQ1. You are thrown once again into the Death Angels clutches when Baines escapes jail and swore his revenge on Sonny Bonds, The classic writing to issue a command was great. The ending was terrific where you had to difuse a bomb as well as meet Baines again in a different city. PQ3 was also oe of my favorites. The graphics were much improved and you again were Sonny Bonds but your true love Marie (who you met in PQ1 but Sonny knew her before that) was stabbed by a visious gang (part of an occult). From patrolling the streets to becoming detective, Sonny is once again seeking all the answers and trying to stay calm and hope Marie recoperates after getting stabbed and left in critical condition. PQ 4 Open Season takes you out of Lytton as well as Sonny Bonds's shoes and into a detective who works in Los Angeles. This one is very ear, gorry (back in those times), and took you to different places. Once the PQ series switched to SWAt it was terrible, Jim Walls, please come back! If Police Quest was resurrected now the graphics and gameplay would be amazing. Imagine sitting on the highway with a radar gun pulling over people, respondonding to a bank robbery ect...

WOW! I finally broke down and got myself a gift that I have been eyeballing in the store for some time. I put the disk in and played both PQ3 and PQ4 for 2 weeks straight. It was an instant return to my youth. It wasn't as difficult as I remembered, and I recalled a lot of things... at least now I could use google to cheat by using the step-by-step instructions when I got stuck. I bought it primarily to replace the 24 disks that came with the original game, since they had died a few years ago. The added bonus is I can go back and play PQ1 and PQ2... but something just seems weird about those because they are really retro and not as awesome as the later versions.. plus typing the commands is kinda weird. All in all, it's a win for me!For those new to the game, it's a close as you can get to the mundane and adrenaline rushes of real police work without leaving your computer chair. Bring your problem solving skills and your inner Sherlock Holmes and join the adventure.Just a word of caution, PQ4 is pretty graphic (dead bodies), but probably nothing compared to the games of today (Halo, etc)

The Police Quest Collection is a great old game series with cool old fashioned graphics. However, I had a lot of trouble making it play on my Windows 8 computer. After I got it working (in DOSBox), it only occupied a tiny square on my high-resolution monitor. I had expected it to be able to stretch to fit, but it cannot. This was disappointing, but the games are worth the trouble. I would recommend it to anyone who either wants to learn about police procedure, or simply likes police games in general.

This game is so much fun. Very challenging if it is your first time. The game colors were all messed up when I tried to use it with Windows 7, but I loaded it on an older computer that had Windows XP and it played fine. The other way around it would be to temporarily tell your computer to use Windows XP, since all computers have earlier versions of Windows already installed on them. Consult a computer tech, if you don't know how to do this.

I have only installed the first police quest game so far but I am not very happy with it. I grew up playing this game (the original DOS version). This version has the mouse point and click feature instead of having to type all of your commands in. Part of what made this game so challenging was knowing what you wanted to do, and then figuring out how you needed to type it in for the computer to recognize it properly.

I played the heck out of the police quest series as a teenager. When I saw this box set on Amazon I just had to pick it up. Somehow I had forgotten just how annoyingly difficult these older games can be! Don't get me wrong, I still appreciate these games for what they are, but I much prefer modern gaming over these dinosaurs. Still I'm glad I purchased this item. Sometimes you forget just how far along games have come, and a product like this will make you appreciate your Call of Duty and Grand Theft Auto that much more!

It was so much fun playing these games again. It brought back found memories when I played these years ago. As with other reviews, I wish they had the EGA version of PQ1. I am not found of having to print out my own manuals and the copy right protection charcters are hard to make out but since I loved the games so much, I still gave this 5 stars. I would recommend getting Space Quest and Kings Quest as well! Sierra had the absolute BEST games back in the 80's and 90's! Buy it!

I got this back a long time ago. It's basically the first four Police Quest Games (1 is just the VGA remake) in a DOSBox environment. It ran fine.

great service but I guess the games sux now when your use to better games.

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Does not work!

The game sucked because the game durably play clearly it's all pixilated

A classic