Quest for Glory Easter Eggs

Quest for Glory 1

• Enhanced version
  • If you walk all the way right from the door to Spielburg and then return (might have to repeat a few times) you'll see Earl the Dinosaur (from the Dinosaurs TV show) returning from work!
  • Look at the lamp in the inn. You'll get a message "Lamp for rent. Inquire in Quest For Glory 2: Trial by Fire for information.".
  • The submarine from Codename: Iceman sometimes appears at Mirror Lake.
  • Delphineus from EcoQuest 1 sometimes appears at Mirror Lake.
  • Nessie also sometimes appears at Mirror Lake.
  • If you look at a tree in the forest long enough, the hero calls it a Daventree (Daventry is the homeland of the King's Quest characters).
  • In the town, find the poor beggar. When you give him an alm, talk to him. He will tell you a story about a man who invented a cider. He calls it Amblin Entertainment from Spielburg (referring to Amblin's Entertainment from Steven Spielburg).
  • The gargoyle's questions at Erasmus' place contain a lot of cameos. The following things are mentioned: "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" (the "What is the meaning of life, the universe and everything?" question, the answer "42" and the comment "So you put some Deep Thought into the question, eh? (Deep Thought was the computer that found the answer)) "The Wizard of Oz" ("I am Oz, the great and terrible" answer, the gargoyle's reply "And who am I, Dorothy?" plus also the answer "The Wizard of Oz" to the question "Who do you seek here?" and the gargoyle's comment "Somehow, I don't think you're in Kansas anymore"), "Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade" ("I seek the Holy Grail" answer and the gargoyle's reply "Sorry, that Jones guy found it already"), "Secret of Monkey Island" ("I want to be a pirate" answer), "King's Quest" (answer "I am King Graham Cracker" and the gargoyle's comment "Right, and I am princess Rubella").
  • Also at Erasmus', look at the sarcophagus. You will see it's a Leyendecker sarcophagus (it has a ribbon around it). The Leyendecker was the location in The Dagger of Amon Ra.
  • The book which the shopkeeper Kaspar of Dry Goods reads, is called Quest For Glory: A Hero's Death.
  • Just outside Spielburg you can see the place where a mapseller used to be. Now he's in Shapier.
  • At the ending party, the creators of the game are at the party. Click on some of them and they do funny things.
  • If you click long enough on a tree in the forest, he sometimes call it a Daventree (King's Quest - Daventry). One of the trees is called The Undiscovered Countree (Star Trek movie - The Undiscovered Country).
  • If you click the mouth on your hero, he says Mumble, mumble... overworked... mumble... underpaid... mumble, mumble... no control over my life...
• Text version
  • The submarine from Codename: Iceman sometimes appears at Mirror Lake.
  • At Erasmus' place, there's a plane labelled Lytton PD in the room where you first enter. Lytton PD is the police department in Police Quests 1-3.
  • Also at Erasmus' place, there are some hieroglyphics on a stone. Look at them. The stone is described as a "Rosella stone" (reference to KQ4). Rosella is also on it.
  • At the main menu, right click on the scorpion (and shift?). Congratulations! You've discovered the first bug in the game!
  • Sometimes during the game, you get bitten by a program bug (and die). Guess this is the Coles' way of saying: Error found.
  • At Erasmus' place, look at the armor standing close to the stairs. You can see it's from Colonel Dijon (Dijon is a character from Sierra's "Colonel's Bequest").
  • If you click on an uninteresting part of the screen and there's no response, keep clicking. Sometimes you get funny messages.
  • Type fart.
• Both versions
  • The antwerp in the Adventurer's Guild was slain by the Two Guys from Andromeda, aka Scott Murphy and Mark Crowe, the creators of the Space Quest series.
  • The moose head at the adventurer's guild is courtesy of the Sierra Prop Department.
  • The blackbird that appears in all of the QFG games is in the brigand leader's office (although the hero doesn't know what it's for yet).
  • The Three Stooges in the cafeteria.
  • The address for the School of Famous Adventurer courses for Heroes is: 12345 Aerris Way, Silmaria. Aerris is an anagram of Sierra.
  • A sign in the cafeteria reads "Brigands uber alles!" which is a takeoff on the famous german phase.
  • When you are at the bear in the cave, try talking to him. Try it again for a very silly answer.

Quest for Glory 2

• In the intro, the Enterprise appears.
• You can examine things by right clicking on them. This is supposed to be used on screens where you have control, but try it in cut-scenes or the menu!
• At the house in Raseir where Zayishah asks you to give her your clothes, put on the X-Ray glasses after you hand over the clothes.
• If you throw a dagger at the plant woman Julanar, the dagger will bounce off and effectively break your screen. That'll teach you to throw daggers at an innocent woman!
• Scramble the letters of the second city "Rasier". You get "Sierra".
• Try asking the griffin something. Somehow, I don't think the hero is translating properly...
• Among Keapon Laffin's goods is a hand puppet named Rosella (quite clearly a reference to King's Quest), some Orats-on-a-stick (from Space Quest 3) and the USS EnterPrise (relabelled "The USS ExitPrise").
• When you ask the astrologer about the model, he'll tell you that it shows the relations between stars called "Xenon", "Ortega", "Phleebhut", etc. Naturally, the aforementioned celestrial bodies have all starred in Space Quest games.
• The blackbird you steal from Khaveen's house appears in all of the QFG games.

Quest for Glory 3

• There's a Silly Clown from QFG2 sitting in the Inn at Tarna.
• The moose in the bazaar is property of the Sierra Prop department (look at it, you'll see).
• Oliver from the programming team is sitting at the Inn in Tarna. He's the guy with the tons of food and a coke can.
• The weapon seller is selling daggers from the Aman Ra tribe, in reference to the game "The Dagger of Amon Ra".
• If you leave a fire burning in the savanna, a death message appears. Then the game tells you that was just a test of the emergency death broadcasting system.
• For the funniest way to die, go to Salim's apothecary and sit down. Now light the pipes with your tinderbox and HAND them three times. Kids, don't try this at home!
• The weapon seller is selling a bow from the Lara tribe, in reference to Laura Bow.
• When you're starving in the savanna, the Awful Waffle Walker will start following you.
• The blackbird that appears in all of the QFG games (if you're a thief) is sold by the Junk Dealers at the bazaar.

Quest for Glory 4

• One of the books in the Adventurer's Guild is an advertisement for "Castle of Dr.Brain".
• The T.R.A.P. at Dr. Cranium's house mentions Smokey the Elephant sometimes (you know, the guy that appears on the fake death message in QFG3).
• The blackbird that appears in all of the QFG games (if you're a thief) is in a niche above the monastery's door.
• In the 4th issue of the famous adventurers correspondence school, you can see an advertistment from Carl Atlas Body Boulding Equipment Company. The adress is 9999 Risera Lane, Silmaria. Risera is another anagram of Sierra.
• Just outside Baba Yaga's hut, you can see a pestle and a mortar. When you look at it, the narrator says that is could belong to a frontier pharmacist, referring to Freddy Pharkas.
• With a lockpick, try to pick the lock of the door outside Dr. Cranium's house. "Naughty" will appear twice under the nose. Also, if you try to pick the nose, a text will appear, saying that it's rude to pick other people noses.
• When you are a thief, make the thief sign at the Rusalka for a very silly answer from her.

Quest for Glory 5