This is a series I would like to look back on and play now that I'm no longer a kid and now that I'm grown up.
My opinion was this is not really a great series but the forth one was likable
Police Quest was a series for the PC that started in (1987) for the MS/DOS PC. In the
first game NOT VGA BUT THE ORIGINAL GAME you would use the arrow keys to walk around. And type in words on the keyboard to interact with game actions. For example if you said something gross like typing in (blow fart) you would get a message saying "My what a sick mind you have". In which this game actually was limited to typing into a text box and guessing what you had to do in this game.
for example the game came with an instruction manual the size of a bible. And you would need to type in the correct command in order to play, like walking up to a car (the correct car) and typing in the worlds "Get In" "Close Door" but first you needed to walk up to a small bulletin board and type in "Get Keys" if you walked outside without your car keys and, going to your briefing, and taking a shower after. you would get a game over.
you'd need to drive without crashing and without brakes to a cafe, then once your are their I think you would need to type in "park""get out of car" "close door" "walk into cafe". than walk over to a table and type something like, "Sit down" "talk" " "Drink coffee" "get up" "answer phone" and if you did not type those to things in sequence or too slow you get a game over also.
(you need to know exactly what to type in and exactly those words in sequence or you could get a game over screen)
driving in the first game was miserable, your car would not stop and you needed to be careful not to turn too fast.
second game I had but never knew how to play it at all.
third game As far as I got was into an office but then I got game over when I got killed outside of the building if I remember correctly. The game also gave you game over if you walked into the wrong locker room 2 times while you play.
(ON 11/24/2018)
I used to enjoy Police Quest IV/4 and Police Quest V/5.
Forth game
None seem to talk about any of the "Police Quest" Series on the PC. I can tell you I really liked the 4th one, but my disc was scratched and I never finished Police Quest IV because of it. In Police Quest 4 you walk around as a crime scene investigator clicking on everything waiting if what you click on would actually trigger an event. It's got some RPG elements where you occasionally meet and talk to people, but I think if you do the wrong thing "just like in all Police Quest series games for PC" you get Game Over events and forces you to start over to the beginning of the game.
"fifth game"
Police Quest 5 is a SWAT simulator, with vary strict rules and stupid random deaths. With cut scenes that make absolute NO sense as the game goes on, sometimes if you shoot a wall or use a wrong object in any of the missions somehow you die, or someone else dies and you get game over though. I remember shooting any random wall and all of a sudden I killed an elder women in a living room. but the cut scene made no sense at all to me because. if you do the right thing the women is actually in the bathroom not the living room . It comes with a HUGE manual. If you don't read it you won't know how To play. Police Quest 5 is being a SWAT simulator. you will need real life proper procedure in everything you do. or else you have to start from the beginning