Well, I've just made it at least six screens' worth of street without dying, which is probably more than I ever managed in King's Quest.

I still find it mortally embarrassing that I died within four seconds of starting Amon Ra by stepping into the road and being run over by a bus, but I hadn't realized that you could actually change location like that provided you looked at both the left and the right hand side of the screen first. Their logic does sort of make sense in a uniquely Sierra way.