Hero Quest was an adaption of the Milton Bradley board game of the same name released by Gremlin Graphics in 1991.
This version remained very faithful to the board game, right down to the turn based movement and combat system. The game could be played either individually, or with team mates, each player picking one of more characters from those available - Barbarian, Elf, Dwarf and Wizard. These were referred to as the 'Heroes' of the title. The game was quest-based, each quest seeing the heroes battle through one dungeon in search of an exit, enemy, or some other objective.
The main advantage of playing on a home computer was that the board game required one player to act as the 'Evil Wizard' player, who would have full access to the game map and control over all of foes the players encountered. The computer fulfilled this role in this version.
In its computer incarnation, the game stood up very well as a light-weight RPG in its own right, and received very favourable reviews. An expansion, 'Return of The Witch Lord' was later released, consisting of ten extra quests based directly on the Milton Bradley expansion of the same name.