I could never figure out why the Quest for Glory (originally Hero's Quest) series was not as popular as the other Sierra "X Quest" games. Maybe it was because the non point-n-click part of the game (all combat) was initially rather glitchy, which made the first iteration of the first game very hard to complete. Whatever the case, I loved the heck out of tehse games because they were just so darned fun, glitches and all. I still remember some lines from the first two installments all these years later. These were adventure/ sword/ spell/ stealth games that didn't take themselves as seriously as the more typical D&D stuff, and laughing through a game goes a long way toward making it memorable. Caveat: The 5th game in the series was significantly changed from the earlier 4, and not for the better. I tried to play it, but despite lots of references to the earlier games (some of them pretty good), it just never felt as fun for me. (It didn't help that there was a persistent crash-to-desktop about 3/4 of the way through on my old hardware, so I never completed it.) In any case, the first 4 games are well worth the price of admission.
