Thank you to all that replied. I watched the video. I hadn't realized that games were programmed differently per region.

"Antarctica? Wut?"

Lol, oops. Please forgive.

Be safe, and be healthy. Thank you for the deeper explanation of how speedrunners go about things. Thanks again.

I thought about my question and I realized that since it was a DOS game, there likely never was an original clock speed. 486 machines all had different CPUs and some of us were starting to get video cards at that time. It was modular. So why not run it at max now? Antarctica, I got back into Kings's Quest by using a Windows 10 machine with Virtual Box doing a Windows XP client, and then using an older version of dosbox in there to get a King's Quest full-screen. A bunch of playing around with config to reduce most of the sound clipping. Thanks to everyone who has replied.

Newcomer to the community. I'm inspired by so many amazing runs. I see many runs are spoken in english, but the game version is in Japanese (or maybe another eastern language, I cannot tell). Is it just personal choice, or do other language versions click through the dialog faster perhaps? Thanks, I'm learning.

Why? I'm not trying to be as ass... Just wondering why not run at original speed?

Newcomer to speed running. Why do the fastest King's Quest runs look like the CPU is way sped up with the animations jumping around and such?