King's Quest VI Speedrun History

The speedrun history of King's Quest VI. We'll look at the time saves, world records, and sequence breaks that make this point-and-click classic the most popular speedrun of the series.
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You'll meet the runners who built the community from the ground up and drove the times lower and lower. You'll witness their struggles with crashes, emulators, and RNG. You'll be there for the personal bests, epic grinds, and jaw-dropping triumphs.

Timestamps:

00:00 Start
01:23 King's Quest VI Story
02:20 The First Speedrunners
05:26 JakiJo
06:34 Zip Explanation
10:38 Guard Dog RNG, Brick Glitch
13:52 Sileair
16:35 Lumophile and ChuckGrody
19:35 UrQuan
23:46 OneShortEye
27:05 The Game Fights Back
32:29 TopKekShrek
34:25 core=dynamic
35:58 Jaki's Wonderful Day
41:05 Tile Puzzle Skip
43:40 Shrek Breaks another Barrier
46:11 Gnome Skip
53:51 Cataclypse
59:16 Parting Thoughts

Want to learn how to speedrun this game? Join the King's Quest Speedrunning Discord:   / discord  

Runners
BillBull:   / billbull  
JakiJo:   / jakijo  ,    / @jakijo2026  
Sileair:   / sileair  
Lumophile:   / lumophile  ,    / @lumophile  
ChuckGrody:   / chuckgrody  ,    / sageowl  
UrQuan:    / @overlordjoppe  
OneShortEye:    / oneshorteye  ,   / oneshorteye  
RetroTKS (topkekshrek):   / retrotks  ,    / @retrotks  
sixsevsairis:   / sixsevsairis  

I've unlisted the original KQVI WR progression video so as not to confuse people, but here's the link if you really want to see it (for historical purposes):    • King's Quest VI WR Progression [Obsol...