Hero's Quest: So You Want To Be A Hero

Hero's Quest: So You Want to Be a Hero (also known as Hero's Quest I: So You Want to Be a Hero) is an adventure game/role-playing game hybrid designed by Lori Ann Cole and published by Sierra On-Line in October 1989 for MS-DOS and Amiga, with the Atari ST version coming out early 1990. It was the first and only game to be released under the Hero's Quest banner before the name changed.

Background
After the publication of the game, it was discovered that the Milton Bradley company had already trademarked the name "HeroQuest" for their board game, and a decision was made to change the name of the series to Quest for Glory to avoid the confusion.

The game was later re-released as Quest for Glory I: So You Want to Be a Hero. The main difference between the Hero's Quest version is the title screen and a few changes to dialogue.

Initially, Trial by Fire was going to be published as Hero's Quest II: Trial by Fire, but was switched to Quest for Glory II: Trial by Fire for its release. Hero's Quest II is mentioned in the end of Hero's Quest I as a teaser.

A 'cover' in Quest for Glory II states; "It's the cover from from the "The Shrine of Hero's Quest," gone but not forgotten.

Behind the scenes
For some odd reason, the GOG Quest for Glory collection on Gog Galaxy refers to the original games both EGA and VGA retroactively as Hero's Quest, though it contains the Quest for Glory I EGA and VGA versions.