Wanted: Hero
No Experience Necessary.
Visit Beautiful Spielburg,
Fight Monsters, Defeat Brigands.
Reward and Title "Hero of Spielburg"
to the Successful Applicant.

As a recent graduate of the Famous Adventurers' Correspondence School for Heroes, you begin your Quest for Glory in the quaint, alpine barony of Spielburg, lured by the above poster in your local Adventurer's Guild.

Baron Stefan Von Spielburg, the ruler of the valley, has angered the vile Ogress Baba Yaga, and her curse has befallen him. His children have mysteriously disappeared, monsters have overrun the forests, a band of brigands under the leadership of a new-found Brigand Leader is terrorizing the populace, waylaying travellers and disrupting the peace of the quiet valley. The Baron has grown old and disheartened, his armies are inadequate to battle the brigands, and even the protective spell of Erana can not protect the town and its inhabitants much longer. What is desparately needed is a true hero!

Your task is to restore the baron's son and daughter, deal with the brigands and capture their Leader, and get rid of the Ogress Baba Yaga. You'll soon discover that there are many dimensions to the problems surrounding Spielburg and only by digging deep into the cause of the problems, can you truly find solutions and bring back peace to the valley. Along the way, you'll meet a host of friendly characters, some of which will help in your quests, if you help them in turn. These include the townsfolk of Spielburg, the Sheriff, the Healer, the Dryad of the Spielburg woods and the Archmage Erasmus, the eccentric wizard. Some of the folk you encounter will not be so friendly, and may try to hinder your heroic efforts to suit their own needs - you'd best be catious and careful when dealing with such characters.

As you embark on this quest, you are yet a green adventurer, eager to test your skills and prove yourself to the world. You'll find many opportunities in Spielburg to practice and develop your skills, and the successful completion of the game will mark the beginnings of a true Hero. You will be proclaimed as such at the end of the game and will then be able to travel, along with your new found friends the kattas Shameen and Shema and the merchant Abdulla Doo, on a magic carpet, to the exotic, enchanted land of Shapeir. Here, you will be begin your next adventure as detailed in Quest for Glory 2: Trial By Fire.

Quest for Glory 1: So You Want to Be a Hero? was first released under the series title of Hero's Quest by Sierra Online in 1989. Implemented using Sierra's SCI game interpreter engine, it featured a 16 color EGA graphics and a text-based parser interface. Later, due to legal reasons, the series title was changed to Quest for Glory (the name was too similar to a board game 'Hero Quest' being developed by Milton Bradley).

In Fall 92, Sierra released a 256-color VGA remake of Quest for Glory 1 which used a mouse-driven icon interface (pioneered in King's Quest 5) and clay animated characters. The setting, plot, and puzzles were essentially the same with minor embellishments, removal of some minor details. Most die-hard fans of the series prefer the original EGA version due to the freedom afforded by the parser interface.