POLICE QUEST Adventure Game Gameplay Walkthrough - No Commentary Playthrough

[@lynncor998]

Got Goosebumps... I played this for countless hours. Not knowing much about it but figured everything out as I went. I’m so happy I came back to this memory. Good times back then.

[@CollinAbroadcast]

Exactly. Said well

[@roamer77]

I remember going into Radio Shack stores and seeing these games running on their Tandy computers...I was sold!

[@dontwrite9s4ever86]

Same thing here man.

[@AquarianNomadic]

Yep!

[@Tigerman1138]

This brings back a LOT of memories.

[@PeterSivazak]

*Sniffs line of cocaine* SAME HERE!!!

[@MonsieurDrobot]

Tigerman1138 damn, for real...

[@spock_elvis]

This game is why I became a racist cop.

[@chadbaier9752]

[@Jmaug]

Maaaaan sleepless nights playing this game

[@JonDGAF]

The pinnacle of PC gaming, I don't care how good graphics and gameplay get there will never be classics like this ever again. This era of gaming didn't last long enough.

[@briancartwright7]

Agreed brother.

[@eternalreturnal]

You just miss being a kid, friend

[@A-small-amount-of-peas]

@@eternalreturnal don't we all?

[@Surfer041]

@@A-small-amount-of-peas getting old blows.

[@Popclone]

This game on a Monochrome CRT; nostalgic memories. No new generation will understand walking in a store and be amazed by the games.

[@DR-JOHN-DEJAVU-1984]

Who would've thought this was a game people thought was modern back in 1987. Now-a-days it's changed. I miss this era of games because of how much effort went into them. That work is seen through the nostalgia we get right now. Thank you Police Quest and SWAT series, your names are never forgotten.

[@yarpen26]

As someone who's trying to use corporate software to build one single Sierra-like screen with a couple of NPCs and items to interact with (it's essentially just barebones coding with few amenities since this software was never supposed to be used for anything like this), even something as rudimentary as _leaving the damn pause menu_ is challenging and time-consuming to code. So many pitfalls that I weren't even aware of tend to keep me stuck for hours on end. For instance, even typing isn't straightforward since even a briefly pressed key triggers the same character signal over multiple iterations (so it's not really "w" that you type by pressing the key for a split second, more like "wwwwwwwwwwwwww"), so you need to think up a way around this. It's just thinking, thinking and thinking. I've really grown to respect the Sierra guys for what they did at the time. It may look unimpressive today, but so much crunchy shit goes into every single frame, you don't even have an idea.

[@evanjohnson2741]

My dad used to let me play this as a kid but only for 20 min a week so I never made much progress. Thanks for posting so I can finally know how this damned game ends.

[@sha11235]

You still could make progress each week.

[@joakimkempe1129]

Or late 80's for that matter.

[@RamonDockins]

This is HILARIOUS. You guys are all like the era of my lost childhood.. We never could have bonded then...lol. Crazy.

[@justpunishingvaginassince1923]

RSK454 WASD SOUNDS LIKE YOUR DAD IS A FUCKING ASSHOLE

[@fabianschneider1964]

Similar story here - I was actually allowed but never (!) managed to succeed in the hand over if the drugs and could not continue .... 😁

[@gbrooks2]

This was such a big part of my childhood... on Grandpa’s old Tandy. Thank you for uploading this!

[@evenkeel6131]

The old Sierra games were awesome, Space Quest and King's Quest were great too. Had the Lytton map up on the wall in the computer room. I always died a least once a game by not doing the damned safety check on the car!

[@IDyce88]

space quest in particular...i grew up on those, perfect balance of adventure and humour.

[@MerchantsofSolace]

I really like the text based game style

[@dannydinosaur]

I loved this game when I was a little kid! I used to play it on my grandmother's computer with my sisters back when I could barely read yet. The car was so damn hard to drive and I don't think I ever really understood what I was supposed to be doing

[@xavier2751]

Driving on the highway was hilariously impossible

[@Noplayster13]

Xavier Just like real life!

[@Buggabones]

Same, I could hardly read when I played this I was so young but I do remember always trying to get in the shower with that lady lmao

[@mattybzell]

I still do a Police Quest style walk-around before I get in my car!

[@bimbumbam6305]

Hahahaha

[@DebonairOnline]

OMG me too haha.

[@pietramaladjaprie4097]

This walking style also used in other series (KQ, SQ, LSL, and this)

[@maciejgodlewski4568]

L O L

[@DaniBlasterBcn]

Great 😂

[@pbee73]

Sonny Bonds was a true legend in the law enforcement world, the police of today couldn't even carry his jockstrap!

[@TheIwanttoapologize]

The actor that plays Sonny Bonds in Police Quest 3 bears a striking resemblance to Val Kilmer. I believe there's a picture of the actor in the game manual for Police Quest 1. Or maybe it's the Police Quest 3 manual. He also looks vaguely like Kilmer in PQ1 VGA.

[@percthirtington4588]

It is currently the year 2020 and this game has aged incredibly well.

[@drdeath6000]

This one gets me right in the feels. I played this game for hours. I didn't understand much of the lingo, nor the whole story (I wasn't aware of drugs and crime when I played this). But I remember I had found a walkthrough and typed my way to the end. It took much longer than 1:33:57. and I don't ever recall getting all the points. You somehow surpassed it haha.

[@aaaaallllleeeeexxxxx]

This game was SO HARD when you're 6 years old and don't know what a friggin pigeonhole is!

[@Blake_Stone]

"But there's no pigeons anywhere!"

[@jmedlin81]

haha.. what a flashback.. I was the same age, with the exact same problem

[@Recusant39]

What is a pigeonhole?

[@gokudomatic]

It was even harder when I still didn't learn English.

[@straightpipediesel]

The problem is to a 6 year old, it's a cubbyhole.

[@Ingo30ab]

This game was also popular in Germany in the early 90s. So we played it as kids, the dictionary on the knees :-) Good memories

[@joakimkempe1129]

Same here in Sweden too. Brings back memories.

[@Null_Point3r]

Aah yes, here in the netherlands too. Learned a lot of English by playing this game

[@yarpen26]

Those turn of the nineties games were good learning material because the dialogue tended to be short and concise and most importantly, it was you who prompted it to pass. Later, after they introduced voice acting and took away the control of the dialogue box speed from the player, spontaneous dictionary lookups became all but impossible.

[@mingueyox]

same in Belgium 🇧🇪

[@nathrael]

My mind suddenly took a trip twenty years backwards... it was the most wonderful thing. Thanks for that.

[@FFF666GP]

1986-1987 were the years that Sierra really bombarded the gaming world with some of the most memorable text based RPGs: BC, KQ3, SQ1, SQ2, LSL1, PQ1...SQ3 released in 1989 was my absolute favourite

[@Null_Point3r]

BC = Black Cauldron?

[@nailsforbreakfast1784]

Black cauldron a classic

[@CMCAdvanced]

It's a text adventure with a graphical interface, not exactly an RPG. Or, an adventure game. RPGs are significantly different enough. The broad usage of the term could apply to so many things, too.

[@samidarwish86]

I played this game in 1993 when i was 7 years old on our IPC Dynasty PC. I don’t know how i managed to reach so far in the game without internet walkthroughs. And i don’t know what i’m doing here now as a 32 year old.

[@jlatala4655]

IPC Dynasty! turquupoise color Power button

[@ianbrowning7437]

My childhood, Between Police Quest and Space Quest.....Man I miss games like this!

[@kindbeats]

This and Kings Quest III bring back a lot of great memories.

[@Cameramantubeofficial]

One of the best games ever made.

[@EX7RUD1CON]

Jesse baines, my bad. Its been 20+ years since I played this last. Loved this game as a kid. Space quest was amazing too.

[@myhybrid09]

Yes yes! Wish this series was remade!

[@xavier2751]

Diet riot!

[@midgetgirl5]

i remember playing this game with my brother when we were kids and my brother walked up to that guy in the shower and the guy said "what are you looking at" man that made us laugh so hard for some reason!!!

[@JudasFm]

Oh, this takes me back. Probably the very first computer game I ever played, or at least remembered playing. I'm curious though; is this a new port? In the version I played, you'd get an automatic Game Over in the drugs bust if you didn't a) draw your gun before interrupting (because both the pusher and the kid would run) b) radio Laura before or during the interruption to tell her to grab anyone trying to bail (because the guy would catch her by surprise and get away) or c) read the kid his rights before questioning him (because not doing so apparently invalidates anything he says) Ah, Sierra. Man, the satisfaction you could get from completing their games really was second to none...

[@DarkeRaven09]

Loving all your waklthrough videos! They bring back fond memories of gaming past for me. My one eternal regret. I won't live long enough to see a Sierra Classics Collection of their best point and click series like this, King's Quest, Space Quest... and yes, Leisure Suit Larry. I loved this game! Sadly I didn't get the others ones past this, but this I got from Radio Shack on sale once and played it through. Good memories.

[@chibicat13]

The quickest and funniest way to die in this game is to type in the commend 'drop pants'. Also you can make Sonny sing in the shower.. I think it goes.. "strangers in the night... la de da de da..."

[@cintulator2]

"take clothes off"

[@Jezzabri]

Your driving is amazing

[@sha11235]

Yeah, that was always the hardest shit.

[@markb3079]

I remember when I was a kid playing this, my keyboard had left, right, up, down and it also had the diagonal arrows. Never see that anymore. Im being that's what they've got. But like you say, kudos to the driving skills!

[@cavernadofilme5651]

This game was just amazing and beautiful back in the day. I remember watching my older brother playing it because back then he was the only one of us who could understand English. Good times lol

[@jaichind]

This was the only one of the various quest games I actually completed successfully. This was all in the late 1980s. Good memories.

[@technofeeliak]

This is awesome! I would play this on a monochrome screen when I was a kid. I didn't get very far, but I have fond memories.

[@Mokgor]

251 of 245 points, now that's quiet a score!

[@joonasrytkonen9502]

did u know u can type "O D" to open doors, and "C D" to close them

[@PeterSivazak]

Whoa...

[@We_Are_Borg_478]

mind blown

[@johnnorthtribe]

I loved this game and I played it a lot during the late 80s, early 90s. It is a wonder that I got as far as I did considering English is not my native tongue. Back then I didn't know more than basic English as a kid.

[@punkkid21]

You sir, are a an excellent driver!

[@d3athstardisco]

Played this as a 6 or 7 year old. Never made it out of the police station. But it was all I had for entertainment for a while. Just the experience of playing a computer game was next level. Had fun just walking around exploring.

[@crockett616]

Ohh, the memories! I wish you'd taken a different line with Helen Hots though :D

[@heinrichfaust4837]

***** I did that in the VGA version. No game over though.

[@heinrichfaust4837]

It's exactly the same thing except. She reveals to you that she really is the Commissioners daughter etc. But after you put down the phone nothing happens.

[@grantorino2325]

What happens if you give her a warning? (Nothing sexual, or anything, just tell her to drive safely?)

[@borderlinepup1603]

My partner showed me this game as an example of what he grew up playing and I am honestly amazed 😅 there is 7 years between us and I thought he grew up playing Spyro and Mario like I did 🤣 I guess not, this is amazing! So different!

[@myhybrid09]

Loved this game! Police Quest 1-3.

[@mickeygvods]

i remember playing this in the old days, i made it pretty far.. but i didn't see the last part yet, i just did.. thank you so cool and so much memories!!

[@cenkhanevcil1974]

Defender of the Crown Pirates Falcon Patrol Blue Max Aztec Challenge THE BESTS...

[@AmbientWalking]

Really awesome. I enjoyed it 100%

[@CollinAbroadcast]

This is trippy. Sucked at the game so could never get far. Didn't realize the game got this deep!

[@GamoFIN]

What a great game! And wow I take it that this wasn't your first play through! :D So smooth execution on everything!

[@mrtypr]

I used to love this game as a kid

[@joeybaggs4059]

I enjoy playing Sierra games. My favorite is "Leisure Suit Larry in the Land of the Lounge Lizards,"

[@mitchmcdonald2122]

This one was my favorite of the PQ Series.

[@svenhohl6695]

Ich habe dieses Spiel als Kind geliebt. Ebenso die Space Quest Spiele, Larry, Kings Quest und auch Gold Rush. Das waren Zeiten 😂😂😂

[@kebabvarras]

very hard game..always gameover if not do something or put wrong command...

[@TheSk909]

Thanks for playthrough!

[@nenriu]

11:31 Helen Hots !

[@maiajones5923]

I remember this game growing up

[@deebugger]

I played this game for weeks on end - it was funny, smart and engaging! You had to think, not just hit random stuff. It’s also the reason I know English so well. Good times indeed.

[@jjmah7]

Wow that was one very eventual day in this town

[@tv-ladik]

When I was a kid I got stuck at the Hotel because I couldn't call a taxi and I didn't know how to get the taxi phone number. It was very frustrating. I live outside the US and had a pirate copy. I almost gave up in despair, and as a last resort I decided to dial phone numbers from 0 to 999, since I knew that there's a number 911. And... BANG! 411!!!! Still love this game.

[@digitalmagicAR]

This was a great game! We had so much fun playing PQ1, PQ2 and PQ3. This version has more than the standard PC single voice audio. Sounds better than what we played

[@finnhaverkamp]

Holy crap this looks super fun. I love the world and writing.

[@nickb4302]

Seriously a blast from the past. King's quest too, don't know if he uploaded that video too. How did you know what to do in this game, like the commands, where to go, etc.

[@reginacastro1325]

Love this game

[@RustusRooster]

This is bloody amazing. Thank you.

[@davideliasok]

Man, how do you drive like that! All these years later I'm still crashing around all the time, hahaha

[@Wislon106]

Same here. That's why I save the game right before I attempt to drive anywhere. At least then I don't have to start over.

[@TranceForce1]

I grow up with this and learn english lol :D kings quest, police quest and space quest :D

[@MrKadidle51]

This and Maniac Mansion were two of my faves

[@holden6104]

I remember getting stuck for the longest time at the drunk driver and had no clue what I was supposed to do. I eventually bought the guide and it told me that I have to "administer field sobriety test."

[@Teremei]

49:40 you left out the part where you have to USE RADIO after you load and draw gun but BEFORE you say halt. I had to look this up on several guides until I found out the solution.

[@shawnlacroix]

I'd watch this whole video but I've gonna go give birth to a Sargent

[@Akerfeldtfan]

I definitely never made it past the first five minutes of this game. As a kid I could never understand how the driving game worked. Took me a minute even now!

[@deethomas3]

Such great memories. Who had the strategy guide book with the magic pen? Helen Hots was extra rude lol!

[@skyef8172]

My brother and I loved this game and the Space Quest and Kings Quest also. Soo hard. We ended up buying a guide that talked you through how to complete the game 😝

[@sha11235]

Amazing how you kept winning all the hands.

[@Mth3sis]

I loved this game as a kid. Couldn't get past the park part lol

[@PeterSivazak]

1:27:15 The suspense!

[@STRAIGHTP]

HELEN HOTS! pulled over in the red sports car. haha, Man, this was one of my favorite games back in the day

[@xjaja1975]

How you can drive so easliy? I crash almost everytime!

[@ronch550]

Al Lowe programmed this game??! Woah!! Didn't know that!! 😮

[@theimortal1974]

that would explain the stripper part

[@Tmhjr_Baskar]

Ah, the good ole Amiga...getter sound abd hrsphics than the pc for that time. Sierra games, FTA, and Afterburner rocked on this system!

[@jimmeboelema]

Still love the text line commands games. Later on they became dialog based which took out the fun of just trying all kinds of silly things. Also the humor in these games was ace.

[@hanidahshan6704]

I used to watch my brother play this game when I was 4 until I started playing it myself and for the life of me I couldn’t figure out what the purpose of this game was. All I knew was that it was mesmerising, no music, open and close doors, give commands to improve my English, go random places and the game is over either when I crash while driving or get caught eavesdropping on the deal in the park.

[@Rjjfkd737]

Same here. Used to go to my cousins house (who was 6 years old than me) to play this when i was a kid, and no had idea wtf i was doing lol. Did not even speak English at that time either.

[@hijodetupa]

Lol the news about Daventry in the newspaper 😂

[@HandsomeAngellifefunDisney]

Excellent

[@sha11235]

Don't you love in the paper the cross reference to King's Quest 3? And I think Sonny's white suit is a reference to Larry Laffer's white leisure suit.

[@MaestroTJS]

I always had pirated versions of these Sierra games as a kid, so I was never able to progress very far because you needed to know certain phrases to use, etc. But man, do I remember driving around and stopping at the various places. You could interact with some more of the characters than what was done in this video. For example, in the locker room, you can talk to the guy in the shower and the guy sitting on the toilet...I think the janitor too. Not much happens with these interactions, but they are kind of fun regardless. These old games seem so tedious now with all the little things you need to do.

[@sha11235]

Probably because he is trying to show the fastest way to play and get points. He wasn't doing anything that didn't get his ass points. You got no points for the things you were talking about.

[@joakimkempe1129]

Yep. Too many of those who played pirated versions never realized that if they actually installed the game on the computer instead of using the appropriate floppy disc to play the game, they'd be able to progress.

[@MaestroTJS]

@@joakimkempe1129 I progressed to a certain point, but there were certain phrases you needed to know that, I think, were in the manual or a separate booklet that came with the game. I remember finding out about one, "do field sobriety test," or something like that. As a young teenager, I had never even heard those words before so it would have been impossible for me to assume that would be something I had to do.

[@kshinokevin]

"Beat Cop" by Crow's Nest comes to my mind (Android; iPhone (Google Play store); the IBM PC and probably for other Video Game consoles (Sony Playstation 5, Nintendo Switch, XBox X). It was a 1980's era/period Point and Click (Text) adventure game, based in Brooklyn, New York.

[@stephencross1230]

I remember this game lol You can't get story telling like in these anymore.

[@oofoot]

All time favorite game

[@Ambaryerno]

Ha, I love how you pretty much spend the whole game speeding. ;-)

[@rt-wj8bl]

I use to rack my brain trying to figure this game out, you make it look so easy!

[@sha11235]

That was the idea of the game-to think! Some of the stuff did come from the booklet provided.

[@phakeAccount]

Wasn't there a more graphical version developed ? I think this is for the XT but there was a version developed for the 386 that was much clearer.

[@DuecePiece]

Sierra, wow haven't thought of that name in years honestly. I remember they were pretty much the PC gaming authority when I was growing up, as Electronic Arts seemed to be for consoles at the time in my opinion (and still are apparently), whatever happened to Sierra games? Looks like I'm off to the great wizard of Google for answers..

[@CEngelbrecht]

Oh my God. God bless YT.

[@TallTravels]

Looks awfully similar to Leisure Suit Larry, must have missed this one!

[@StarlightEater]

Sierra was the best. Yo I used to watch the deserted island screensaver changing for hours when I was a kid technology wondrous

[@markb3079]

Johnny Castaway!!!

[@avengah]

How is the PC Speaker music polyphonic? When I play Police Quest EGA through DOSBox, it's only a single note at a time.

[@digitalmagicAR]

Maybe this is the Tandy 3 voice version? Mine was single voice PC also. what confuses me is this youtube version seems to be able to also do digital sound effects with the crude sounds too. I wasn't aware that any version could do this back then

[@avengah]

@@digitalmagicAR The answer is ScummVM emulator, it supports polyphonic sound in all the Sierra adventure games.

[@rorym1980]

i have no memories of this game. there ya go, a refreshing comment!

[@digitalmagicAR]

The graphics and sound got much better in PQ2 (16 color EGA) and PQ3 (256 color VGA) but the driving in PQ1 was so much better than the later two games!

[@sha11235]

Notice that when Hoffman is arrested, the BG is of the Disco in Leisure Suit Larry? The sign is just removed.

[@chainsaw_monday]

It took me a year to figure out to "check car" on all 4 tires as a kid lol. I could only drive a block before the tire blew out lmao.

[@shadowghost815]

33:12 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@themtube9455]

This game, Larry and Monkey Island taught me English before the age of 10

[@helorumtheknightsofmambrin2155]

While driving I couldn't help but change it to the fastest speed.

[@craigharris41]

I still remember this on my Tandy 1000 ex.