The Colonel’s Bequest is an adventure game originally released in 1989 for MS-DOS. It was made by Sierra co-founder Roberta Williams, who is most famous for being the creator of the King’s Quest series. Nine years prior, she created a game for Apple II computers named Mystery House.Both games drew inspiration from Agatha Christie’s novel, And Then There Were None, in that. Featuring Lazy Game Reviews! Navionics cracked screen. This is The Colonel's Bequest, a classic Sierra murder mystery game featuring Laura Bow! This is basically the intro with some game play.

Crusty former Army colonel Lionel Barrymore is encouraged to patch things up with his estranged daughter after her marriage to a Yankee produces an adorably outspoken child who emulates her bossy grandfather. It's Shirley Temple in the Old South after the Civil War, scuttled after by housekeeper Hattie McDaniel and dancing up the staircase with butler Bill Robinson, and some will surely quibble with this Hollywood-ized version of time and place. Even though there's bad blood between relatives, everyone sparkles with sass and sentiment! The main joy here is in watching little Shirley outwit her elders, although the baptismal sequence at the river (complete with spiritual 'wailing') provides an eerie shimmer that nearly seems to belong to a different film altogether.1/2 from.