Awakening Desire for Behemoths of Bespoke Assets: An Anticapitalist King’s Quest V Retrospective

Of all the images I could’ve chosen from this game, this one seemed the most apt for the topic at hand. [© Sierra On-Line, Activision]

I get it, that title sounds like an oxymoron given that Sierra was a publicly-traded company once upon a time and to my grim discovery in my thirties, railed against early efforts for the games industry to unionize. (And if you’re unfamiliar with old school adventure game classics, references to monarchy would undoubtedly be…