KQ6 Box Colors - Did the different colors mean anything?

[Charles]

After years of them sitting in storage, I finally bought some shelves and put all my sierra game boxes on display in my office. And looking at the various doubles I have (especially around King's Quest games) it got me thinking.

I know Sierra released  at least 4 different big box versions of King's Quest 6: Red, Blue, Black, and White.  Did the different colors mean anything?  I know it's not platform, because I have 1 PC and 1 Mac copy, both blue. But did different retailers get different box colors, did Sierra make any fanfare about the different colors, was it a way to encourage multiple sales?

As far as I remember they weren't like later reissues or something... they just existed all at the same time.

So, what's the deal with them?

[doomlazer]

I thought it might be based on media format, but looking at ebay there are sealed 3.5 and 5.25 floppy versions of the red box. There is also an unsealed red box with pictures showing that it included both CD and floppies in a red box, though it's labeled black box in the item description.

Maybe some weird combo of VGA/EGA and disc/disk format, but probably not. Cool question

edit: eh afaik, kq6 never had a true EGA release.

[Collector]

I have several of the variants and they are identical, both digitally and contents.

[Aroenai]

I know when we purchased our copy of King's Quest VI, it was treated as an "upgrade" from the floppy version with proof of purchase. That's the white label CD box, so it could be that they had versions set aside for upgrades vs new purchases with different prices.