Everything you need to know about Space Quest I: The Sarien Encounter

[@mcasias33]

I made Roger Wilco pin on buttons years ago when I worked menial labor. One with him pushing a vacuum and one of the vacuum itself from SQ6. I remember during the whole 5 years I had those pinned to my work uniform that only one random person I ran into knew who Roger Wilco was while I was on the job; that was a good day.

[@lisahoward8399]

Haaaa. This was amazing. I haven't played since I was a freaking kid...and am so embarrassed about how NOT FAR I got. 😂 It may be time to...try again...

[@technologypoet]

I just found your channel and I want to say thank you for the wonderful trip down memory lane. And the humor with which you recapped one of my favorite Sierra quest series ❤

[@spacequesthistorian]

Thank you ❤️

[@camwyn256]

Roger wasn't napping in a closet. He was "resting up for the big battle" as Roger said in his interview for Space Pistons magazine vol. 4 (which I still have my original copy of).

[@caseygoddard]

Good Summary. I'm impressed that you were able to cover pretty much everything in under 9 minutes.

[@spacequesthistorian]

It got trickier as the series went on, but I did manage to cover all of the games in under 10 minutes. Apart from SQ6, which is *just over* 10 minutes (10:13), and that's only because I mention the fan games at the end.

[@AlbertBoris]

This is still one of my favourite Sierra Adventure games ever, despite the archaic nature of it, and I prefer it over the VGA version. Mostly because I didn't like what they did with Kerona. In the original, it's this yellow desert planet with lots of cliffs, and it was really charming and beautiful. In VGA however, it's pitch-red and you walk on a huge skeleton. It just kind of took away a lot of the charm. But that doesn't matter, the point is that I love the AGI version of it, and it's my second favourite of the bunch!

[@spacequesthistorian]

The VGA version was also made behind The Two Guys' backs, and Scott Murphy is still very bitter about that.

[@psycthom]

Holy S*** just learn several things I never knew for the past 30 years

[@xRocketzFighterx]

Space Quest 1 is The Book of Genesis from the Bible of Space Quest.

[@jesternario]

I have played this game multiple times over the years. You have made me exclaim “wait, WHAT!?” At least three times in an 8-minute video.

[@spacequesthistorian]

That makes me very happy. 😁

[@camwyn256]

I built my first PC when I was 6 and Space Quest 1 was one of the very first games I got. Played it so SO much

[@generalkawasaki9485]

I knew that about the flatulence wordplay, and I didn't even speak intermediate english back then. But it took me a long time to find out the Blues Brothers were no singers, just actors. All their best known songs are covers of classics, and they were called Blues because those were their last names in the movie.

[@TezMcNez]

I remember the first version of Space Quest 1 he wasn’t called Roger Wilco; you could type whatever name you wanted at the beginning. Never knew there were multiple ways to solve some puzzles. Thank you! And thanks for the trip down memory lane

[@spacequesthistorian]

You can still type whatever name you want in both SQ1 and SQ2 - I just like to keep the default name. :) Thanks for watching. Happy to have given you a trip down memory lane!

[@handznet]

KZbin channel dedicated to just one adventure game series? Crazy idea. And I love it.

[@SidBarnhoorn]

Excellent video, Troels! :) You inspired me to fire up my old 286 system and play some Space Quest! :D

[@spacequesthistorian]

Yaaaay! Mission accomplished!

[@jeremygeorgia4943]

You can haggle for the jetpack price. If you decline the initial offer, the alien will come back with a better offer. You can decline him twice. The third time, he will come back with his final offer, and he's serious. After that, he will go back to his original price, and he won't negotiate. Also, the slot machine doesn't explode, until you have accumulated enough to buy the spaceship and the droid. So, even though it doesn't matter, you can buy the droid first. Then you can earn a bit more from the slot machine. Then you can buy the ship. You can then win the maximum amount possible, before the machine explodes. You lose the money on the Deltaur, but it's nice to carry money around, anyway. As a general strategy, betting the lowest amount gives you the best odds of keeping what you earn. When you get above $20, you can start betting more. It's not to hard to figure out the ideal ratio, before increasing your bet. Basically, you want to be able to make more than one bet before losing your money. Increase your bet, when you have twice the bet amount or more. You can cheat, too if you wish. The three skulls are a bit unfair & cheating on the other side, anyway.

[@GypsyxDarling]

Hugely underrated channel! So excited for the rest.

[@spacequesthistorian]

Thank you! :)

[@PCGamesNostalgia]

Agree!

[@Mikedadof2]

Great video

[@MatthewSmith-wh5dr]

Thought I knew everything about that game. I did not.

[@thought2007]

I remember I got stuck in this game because I couldn't pick up the translator in the Arcada. I saw it was there in the closet, but I couldn't figure out what word to use. I think it's officially a TRANSLATOR GADGET but neither word came to me as a kid while playing. Luckily my parents bought me one of those nice "strategy" books in which you could reveal the answers to only the select parts that you needed, by using a special highlighting pen. I really wanted to figure out the rest on my own.

[@meatrace]

Can't wait for SQIII (my personal favorite).

[@spacequesthistorian]

You won't have to wait long. That comes out tomorrow! :)

[@jhhoward]

I don't know why but I didn't realise you could kill both the spider droid and Orat in the cave in the original release. I thought it was added as an alternative solution in the VGA remake (like how they added the magnet to cheat at the slot machine)

[@jhhoward]

Looks like you need to have spoken to the big alien head first otherwise if you enter the cave with the spider droid chasing you then Orat just isn't there!

[@underwaterlevelz1947]

Ah, didn't know that the widget magnet was only in the VGA remake. I had heard that it was in the original, but I don't remember ever finding it.

[@DriftPirateD]

I think I hit the jackpot! I found your channel after finding a backup of your Space Quest Geocities page while browsing on oocities.org. I decided to see what you were up to nowadays and found the channel and now I’m being educated about Space Quest, which I had admittedly never played. You’ve got a new fan, though! It makes me happy to see that you’re still doing what you love all these years later.

[@spacequesthistorian]

Thank you! How embarrassing that you found that old site, but I'm glad to see it led you to my new string of embarrassments. :)

[@DriftPirateD]

@@spacequesthistorian Honestly, as a data archaeologist I see an awful lot of bad sites, but yours was a stand-out in terms of quality! It looked very professional, and it was good of you to leave up the geocities page even after migrating so that people like me could find it later. I’m excited to follow along with this “everything you need to know” series to learn more.

[@spacequesthistorian]

@@DriftPirateD You're way too kind. :) Those were fun times, back in the mid-to-late 90s...until they weren't anymore. Sierra cancelling SQ7 kinda killed the fun for everyone.

[@Sandata64RD]

Thank you.

[@torchiest]

1) Holy shit Flatulence? I had no idea after 30+ years. 2) Ar-CAY-duh til the day I die. Been saying it that way for... 30+ years.

[@camwyn256]

In the VGA remake, you can also get a magnet to use on the slot machine to win

[@prowokator]

I was about 8 years old, hadn't even started to study english yet at school as foreign language studies started on 3rd grade, and I still could beat the game just from memory. Same with sq2. Loved them. Very influential for a young boy.

[@pazuzu9495]

I was born in 1978 and I learned the most of my english not in school,but in Amiga 500 games!! (And Heavy Metal lyrics...) Now I know that some others did the same like me

[@machmslf]

I ate 4g of mushrooms last night and me and roger wilco hung out

[@spacequesthistorian]

Sounds like a party. If he's still there, tell him I said hi.

[@jimruthlessYT]

I loved point n click games as a kid but somehow I never played this one. But it looks like something that I would have loved.It looks a bit like Maniac Mansion, another great game.

[@ReinventingTheSteve]

back in the 90s i got up to where you had to enter the self destruct code, didn't know it so I never played again 😢

[@spacequesthistorian]

Ah, yeah... The code is on the cartridge, and if you never got that (perhaps by not going back into the datacart library and having the encounter with the scientist), then you have no idea where you're even supposed to find it. In hindsight, having the scientist dude show up after you've already been in the room once is kind of a dick move.

[@DosGamerMan]

I was just happy I was able to finish this game...

[@thought2007]

4:08 Crushing the spider didn't seem so terribly hard. I think I used save/restore to get to a state where the spider was almost there (when he starts walking southwest) then used F7 a bunch of times from that state to quickly try again.

[@spacequesthistorian]

It's not terribly hard -- the hitbox is actually pretty forgiving -- but it's the least... elegant solution. :)

[@rogerwilco2]

I remember this.

[@spacequesthistorian]

User name checks out.

[@BadLamprey]

i first played this game damn near on release and I never got the ulence flats joke until now...

[@Hal566]

would you happen to have a copy of version 1.0x or 1.1a? I'm sure ive played other versions back in the day, but now all I can find is 2.2 as well among my own personal copies. Apart from some floppy versions that I can't get to work.

[@xRocketzFighterx]

2:15 what is that boppin' beat? Would be super duper rad af if you can put links to the songs. Or... you can just say it's Darude Sandstorm.

[@spacequesthistorian]

It's just some garbage I made back when I was at university. It's over on grafikfejl.bandcamp.com - we only made one ep and I played all the instruments on the first 3 tracks (the first 2 were used in this video), so it wasn't much of a band, really.

[@xRocketzFighterx]

@@spacequesthistorian This mix is actually pretty cool. Not all songs/mixes are gonna be the best but I will say this is better than those old crappy mixes I made back on Ejay software. The simple synth and bass is pretty enjoyable, it sounds serious but pretty relaxing at the same time. Not exactly like chillhop but a more ominous sci-fi chill mix.

[@spacequesthistorian]

@@xRocketzFighterx Thank you! I pretty much wrote them to teach myself to play bass. I had borrowed a friend's bass and had this idea for an electronic group where the only "real" instrument was an electric bass (for some reason). I actually found a dude who was a proper bass player to play on the tunes, but we never got around to recording him, so that's me playing bass for the first time on those tracks.

[@jesternario]

This is literally the first time I have heard of being able to use the spider food on Orat. Does this work in the VGA Edison?

[@spacequesthistorian]

Yes, it does!

[@AvSias]

You've just spoiled the entire game for me, no reason to buy and play it. :'(( Can't wait for the other vids!!

[@spacequesthistorian]

That's okay, the Two Guys don't get any money from sales, anyway. ;)

[@iamgay7478]

@@spacequesthistorian jesus, that's depressing.

[@stevenross-watt8640]

Why not 202 of 202?

[@brianvonkraus7408]

Depending on the version, you can get 205, 207, or 254 points. It involves getting the emergency kit twice; traveling in the trunk and then entering the vent system; and getting the second grenade. 254 points is via a bug where you keep shooting Sariens and losing points past zero.

[@darthzounds4889]

SQH, it would be great if you'd do a playthrough of Infamous Adventures' remake of Space Quest 2!

[@spacequesthistorian]

I did that 2 years ago! :) kzbin.info/www/bejne/a2SznmOjoZ1sbJY

[@darthzounds4889]

@@spacequesthistorian Thanks for the link. Excuse me, I wasn't sure if I remembered you doing that yet.

[@spacequesthistorian]

No worries :)

[@Strideo1]

The King's Quest games took themselves seriously? Those games were so ridiculous I always assumed they were yanking the player's chain.

[@tharfagreinir]

200 points ... why though? What did you skip?

[@spacequesthistorian]

Not sure. This was a very long recording of me doing bits of the game, then going back and doing them a different way, just to get footage of the different outcomes. I may have finished the game where I dropped the rock on the Spider Droid instead of having him meet Orat. Or something like that.

[@tharfagreinir]

@@spacequesthistorian That aside, great job. I wasn't expecting this to be a complete playthrough as well as an overview of the background but was pleasantly surprised.

[@spacequesthistorian]

@@tharfagreinir Glad to hear that :)

[@davidtavaresrosa6326]

gr8vid - where can i find de track @8:30

[@spacequesthistorian]

It's on James Mulvale's Soundcloud: soundcloud.com/spacequest

[@davidtavaresrosa6326]

@@spacequesthistorian thnks 👍

[@cosmicrdt]

No mention of the vga remake?

[@spacequesthistorian]

I mention it briefly in the SQ6 video, but I left it out here. It doesn't really fit into a series overview, in my opinion, as it was made without the Two Guys and sort of behind their backs.

[@SilencerGDA]

Is there some applause if you full score?

[@FoxxMulderr]

"Everything you need to know" yet short video 🤔

[@spacequesthistorian]

I have more, but you don't NEED to know it. 😏

[@iamgay7478]

fyi comrade, "primer" is pronounce as if you were saying "prim-er" as in "prim and proper" in this particular usage. love your work btw. As an SQ fan for 31 years, I'm always impressed by your knowledge.

[@spacequesthistorian]

Well, then I've got 6 videos of mispronounciations for you to look forward to.

[@iamgay7478]

@@spacequesthistorian Haha, well I always enjoy your videos, so I'm looking forward to more. Plus I know English is your second language, which surprised the hell out of me when I found out. I thought you were a native speaker for years lol. You speak more languages more perfectly than I ever will haha