GO TO YOUR ROOM, JUNIOR | Space Quest IV pt. 6 (FINAL)

Yes, we have reached the end of Space Quest IV! Everything comes to a head as Roger has to rescue his son from the Super BioMech Computer. And, also, to finally figure out what that damn PocketPal Portable Terminal is for.
Closing theme: "Space Quest III Main Theme" by James Mulvale
(Originally composed by Bob Siebenberg)
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[@MeowingKittens]

The laser puzzle was my bane as a kid. I wasn’t yet old enough for math to teach me the concept of degrees, so I wasn’t exactly sure what I was doing. Just that numbers made them move, and big numbers they moved more. I save scummed the hell out of that part every time, solving it by pure dumb luck for years.

[@spacequesthistorian]

Same here, actually!

[@darkowl9]

I think that long code might have been written incorrectly. As it stands, it spells "EATLE". But if it had been 77 instead of 76 it would have been "EATME'.

[@DonCarlosofFreiburg]

Yep, ASCII 😊

[@acemcjack]

I discovered years ago, that if you let the first droid (the one coming behind you when you just start the maze) tail you all the way to the elevator, then, slightly before it comes into view, go up the elevator, and then go back down the elevator just as it's going up, you can switch places with him, and he never bothers you again. :) Try it!

[@nunyanunya4147]

im gonna get him imma gonna get him imma gonna get em imma gonna IMMA GONNA ... ..... ... UPSTARS! UPSTAIRS!

[@ivailo7]

Hi SQH, I don't know if you still check comments on your Space Quest videos but I just wanted to thank you for making these. I knew about the game before stumbling on your channel, but I fell in love with its world, lore and creators thanks to your content! Looking forward to your play trough of Space Quest X: Latex Babes of Estros! I'm sure you will share great stories from behind the scenes and what shenanigans the Two Guys were up to while making it!

[@spacequesthistorian]

Thank you very much. That's great to hear!

[@ivailo7]

@@spacequesthistorian No problem! From everything you shared with us I'm willing to bet that you are not a teacher but you can definitely be one. You have patience and calming voice. If a university in Denmark ever starts a course on Space Quest you should be the only one on their list. Is there any chance of you appearing as voice in Space Adventure? Maybe the fans can make it happen? :) You deserve it!

[@benograider6097]

it was -once again- a delightful journey, Mr. Historian Sir! Seeing you play these games makes me time travel myself and I love it. And I'm most certainly sure you got this request at least a trillion times now, but would you do me the honor of playing through the Kings Quest series? KG I was actually the very very first video game I got in contact with. Thank you once again for a great playtrough!

[@spacequesthistorian]

Thank you for your kind words! King's Quest isn't really my jam, so I have no plans to do so at the moment. But never say never.

[@mikkosimonen]

You have to jump through so many hoops to use the pocket pal and it turns out all it really tells you is to… turn left at the entrance and go straight.

[@spacequesthistorian]

It has come to my attention that I said something during this video that may be construed as homophobic. Please know that this was not my intention. I am a firm believer in gay rights and I did not mean any harm. If you are offended, I am truly sorry.

[@tommurphy5425]

Yeah, that 'All Righty Heidi'.. KNEW that was gonna get some letters sent your way!

[@cliffg.4205]

The 24th century is pretty 90s. I can dig that. Time is cyclical, which is why clocks are round.

[@spacequesthistorian]

Haha! Mind blown.

[@Terezar]

wooooooah!

[@AidanMillward]

Random fan theory: what if the cyborg roaming the streets of Xenon is the Roger of that time period?

[@spacequesthistorian]

This has actually been a pretty popular theory since the old forum days in the mid 90s. People say the uniform sort of matches and that it explains why Roger Jr. is so reluctant to explain why Roger "wasn't available in this time period." The argument against it is, if Vohaul had turned Roger into a roaming cyborg, why would he need to take revenge on him in the past? He would already have gotten his revenge. What could be sweeter revenge than sending Cyborg Daddy on the hunt to find and kill his own rebel son?

[@AidanMillward]

@@spacequesthistorian good point. But it’s Vohaul, he could have got his revenge and then got his revenge AGAIN by getting Roger and chasing him across several time periods and killing him in front of his son, while watching the other roger roam aimlessly around the streets as a physical trophy. Or he could have gone back to Space Quest I and destroyed the Arcada after robbing the Star Generator knowing Rog was still alive on the ship. But that’s not how time travel works as the SQ XII Vohaul wouldn’t need to exist then 😂

[@spacequesthistorian]

@@AidanMillward There's a lot he could have done that would have worked tons better than what he did. I guess being a mad scientist who tests his experiments on himself does a thing or two to the ol' brainmeats.

[@dragonfurry69]

27:59 That's King's Quest 43, BTW

[@nerdfreed9345]

I'm so excited that this quest is over, I can't wait to see the next. I've never seen Space Quest 5 and so far this series has been like my weekly t.v.

[@spacequesthistorian]

I'm so glad; that's exactly what I hoped this would be like. :) I hope I can show you SQ5 in a way that serves it right.

[@nerdfreed9345]

I know you will sir, you've done it so well with all the others. Also quick question of a point and click adventure game nature, are you a fan of Homestar Runner and if so did you know they have a point and click adventure game? It's not too bad and it has 5 episodes I think that are only an hour or so long. Just a thought from a fellow nerd.

[@spacequesthistorian]

Never heard of it. I'll check it out, thanks!

[@Sephex]

I'll forget you said jizz ass. I got your back, bro. Kinda wish those questions did get answered, but it is what it is! I am hyped up for Space Quest V. I didn't see the game until late last decade and it still impressed me VERY much. It's one of those games where it gets way more interesting the more you go on.

[@spacequesthistorian]

SQ5 is a surprisingly big game, even if you know what you're doing. In contrast to SQ4 which you can actually speedrun pretty quickly.

[@cdo_]

BEST PLAY-THROUGH EVER!!!

[@ideamissing]

oh man, when you went to such lengths to show JUST how convoluted the Pocket Pal puzzle was, I was just waiting for the game to punch you in the nose. YOU: ... I forgot to save, didn't I? ME: yep, there it is. Sierra doesn't like it when you point out their insane moon logic

[@MagusMarquillin]

Oops! You did something we didn't think of. Please report this to Sierra On-Line technical support.

[@crawdkenny]

16:23 Space Quest 4 predicted the future. We actually have websites like that nowadays.

[@ShadeMeadows]

This was an great Time Travel tale... Weird as heck, but hey! It's the charm!

[@johnnepper1947]

starting from the beams original position the correct codes are 156 for first set of beams. 024 for second set of beams. 108 for third and last set of beams. this has to be done with the beams in the original angles. mess with it and you gotta figure it out through trial and error.

[@spacequesthistorian]

I always just went by trial and error. It's one of those puzzles that are more of a stopgap than an actual puzzle, really. As a kid, I would just enter random numbers until it eventually solved itself.

[@ThePorpoisepower]

We're lucky Sharpei didn't have access to Vohaul's mind exchange device/software... Stella would have been hosed.

[@kaelside]

Jizzazz?? :D Bwahahahahahahaha!!! Awesome playthrough. So much happy!

[@JasonZeppelin1]

Anyone else notice Roger seems to spark like a robot in some death scenes? Like at 20:25.

[@davvigtu]

Interpreting the code as ASCII numbers (in decimal, not hex) gives "EATLE". Who knows what it's meant to be... BEATLE? Misspelling of EAGLE? Your guess is as good as mine!

[@spacequesthistorian]

Someone suggested they maybe got the second-to-last number wrong, and that it was supposed to read "EAT ME."

[@toStringy]

So at the start of the game you could get the slime, go back up and use it on the door and find out the plug type?

[@spacequesthistorian]

No, if you go up and try to go to the door, there's a Sequel Policeman guarding it.

[@toStringy]

@@spacequesthistorian Ohhhh ok! They think of everything.. Thank you for the reply on this old video! I recently found your channel and have been going through the SQ series, I'm in my late 30s so this is real nostalgia.. Although I never did finish this game (4). Keep up the good work and I hope you do more Sierra stuff in the future. My favourite and least favourite Sierra game is Goldrush :-D

[@spacequesthistorian]

Haha, weeeelll, they didn't think of *everything*... For instance, remember that unstable ordnance at the start that blows you up when you go through the sewer grate? Turns out there's a very simple glitch in the CD-ROM version that lets you carry that thing all the way through the game. I covered that in one of my "Secrets of Space Quest" videos.

[@toStringy]

@@spacequesthistorian Haha! Well I will look up that video next! Thanks!

[@wingedcatgirl]

Ah, the Dandy Recipe Beamer. Such a futuristic-sounding idea back then, but nowadays we have websites to do that. ... (we do have them, right? I really should bookmark one 😭)

[@MagusMarquillin]

OMG, those laser codes are degrees?! I'll have to pray I was too young to have taken much geometry when I struggled and guessed my way through this. I don't remember if I clued into lower numbers causing less rotation or not, but I recall finding that going diagonally across the keypad gets one of the gates right, so I started looking for similar patterns, and rechecking the in game hint book in vain! I felt pretty proud for figuring out the cigar smoke though, that sped up the trial and error significantly!

[@spacequesthistorian]

Don't feel bad; I just keyed in random numbers the first two million times I played the game. It wasn't until many, many years later I realized they were degrees. Also, if you play that fast-motion bit of this video in slow, you'll notice me repeatedly forgetting to enter a leading 0 when entering them because I am teh doofus.

[@TheInkPitOx]

I used to think that even if the lasers were slightly off, they still counted.

[@AidanMillward]

Or- they could have just gone back in time to just before they downloaded Leisure Suit Larry to the computer. That way the SQXII timeline would never have happened and saved Roger Jr a lot of hassle. 😂

[@spacequesthistorian]

THAT'S NOT HOW TIME TRAVEL WORKS FOR SOME REASON DON'T LOOK AT ME I JUST WORK HERE

[@churchofthelambofsat]

How would they have gotten the coordinates?

[@nobatadared]

The mic audio has been really great since you got the new microphone. No more buzzing, woo!

[@spacequesthistorian]

Thank you! Truth be told, the change in mic didn't really solve my problem. I just got better at filtering out the noise. In fact, the mic I used in this episode has a host of problems of its own - sometimes it's reasonably quiet (which it thankfully was for most of this episode) - other times it starts buzzing really loudly. You'll hear the flip side of the coin next Friday. Tl;dr: The mic didn't actually solve my problem, but thank you for noticing the less-noisy audio. :)

[@courtneydoss8572]

You should add the extra radioshock bits to your wrap up at the end of the series

[@spacequesthistorian]

Do you mean the unused Roger takes, or just the regular ones?

[@courtneydoss8572]

Any you didn't show in the video,I love all the fun little extras in these games

[@spacequesthistorian]

I'll make a note of that. Thanks! :)

[@donwald3436]

Roger inhales cigar smoke lol.

[@darthzounds4889]

I relate to what you're saying; this part of the game looks like it was inspired by the work of H.R. Giger. By the way, I just had an idea; it would be great if your SQ games were linked together, making one long video for each game. Just a thought.

[@spacequesthistorian]

Well, it would be tempting to go back and remaster the audio to the old episodes and string 'em all back-to-back. But I haven't got the original files from back then anymore, so I'm afraid you'll have to settle for the playlist.

[@Terezar]

I know how to make that soup. You start with one Orat and one Sarien Spider droid...

[@spacequesthistorian]

How do you scrape it up from the floor and get it into a bowl?

[@Terezar]

Put enough bowls around the vicinity and you will catch plenty of it. Then seal it with some super ridiculous sciency gadget you keep in your pants for this one and only purpose before discarding it and packing up the cans in a giant crate to ship off to sale at galaxy galleria food courts the universe over.

[@merlinyesreally]

Time Teleportation Dance... Activate!

[@richardperspective]

Heh. I never saw that message from Vohaul before... Shame it doesn't appear the FIRST time you plug in the PocketPal.

[@spacequesthistorian]

Not only that, but it's pretty much your entire motivation for defeating Sludge Vohaul right there, packed away behind a convoluted, entirely optional puzzle. Much like the secret message in Astro Chicken, I'll bet most people didn't see it!

[@acemcjack]

@@spacequesthistorian If I remember correctly, this also appears in the disk version of the game, with Vohaul actually talking. I was blown away when I played the game for the first time back in the 90's, and got to hear him talking.

[@spacequesthistorian]

@@acemcjack It does. Different voice from the CD-ROM version, too!

[@lucyphonic]

The thing where it says "If this had been a real brain", it seems familiar but I can't remember where I heard something similar. Maybe it was in another game?

[@spacequesthistorian]

I think it's parodying the "this is your brain" anti-drug commercials of the 90s. There is a similar line when you visit the SQ3 easter egg: "This is Roger. This is Roger on Ortega. Any questions?"

[@Scythus]

Did anyone notice the weird glitch over "Space" part of the Space Quest text at the 24:00 ? I wonder what caused that..

[@spacequesthistorian]

The laser blasts sometimes don't clear like they're supposed to.

[@mjc0961]

Suddenly I'm reminded of the time Ninja Brian gave Danny a beej 🤔

[@MagusMarquillin]

Roger's voice actor is pretty good I think, especially given that the role was given as a favor to him. He doesn't add much nuance most of the time, but I like how he does the final cutscene "my wife" - there's just enough awe mixed with his dufusness. Jr. though, he's just _baaad_ - best thing you can say about it is he sounds enough like Roger, but aren't we meant to believe he's a more competent rebel version? Even if he's meant to be a chip off the old dufus, or just in awe of meeting his (absent? dead?) father, he still sounds like he hasn't memorized his lines! Most of the bit parts were better - they could have gotten Scott Murphy, or Jane Jenson to do it. As it is, this scene played a lot more epicly in my head, on this disk version, with the only sound coming from the _Maestro,_ Ken Allen.

[@spacequesthistorian]

Stuart Moulder, the guy who does Roger Jr., was clearly just reading his lines, as he's not an actor. His Mobygames profile actually lists some impressive accomplishments -- after Sierra, he went to Microsoft in a managerial position and helped them acquire Bungie. Interestingly, that same profile omits his voice acting part in Space Quest IV, and it doesn't say anything about him being an artist, so I may have been wrong about that. www.mobygames.com/developer/sheet/view/developerId,6024/

[@Geno2733]

842m GBytes free. Wish I had that kind of RAM.

[@spacequesthistorian]

640k ought to be enough for everyone.

[@DarkSoul4242]

Funny, when you let the formatting sequence run out, it says that you realize you lost the game because you weren't there to see it ; reason is, you need Roger Jr in order to go back to SQ4. Oops. That at least makes more sense.

[@MagusMarquillin]

Doesn't make much sense - Roger Jr. has already saved you. It's in his and Roger's past, it's happened and still happens his body becomes Vohaul. It's not like letting Bea die in SQ5, creating a time paradox. They could of just had the beam power down with the format, and have Vohaul throw you from the platform

[@DarkSoul4242]

I always thought it would cause a paradox because Roger does not know the proper codes to return to the SQ4 era, therefore breaking the stable loop.

[@MagusMarquillin]

Ah, I misread "you need Roger Jr to go back to SQ4" as Jr. going back. Sorry, yeah that's a good point - the best he could do is relive space quest 1 or 3 as a VGA freak, but that's not how Jr.'s past went.

[@DarkSoul4242]

I fixed my comment to make it more clear that I meant "you need him in order to" :)

[@DarkSoul4242]

Magus Marquillin worse, it would go the "Beatrice dies" way: Roger never goes back to SQ4, never meets Beatrice and never begets Roger Jr., hence never getting saved, hence dying to Vohaul's goons... and boom.

[@matthiasjagdm3949]

3:50 jissass? edit ge sass? 3:55

[@derosiflo6524]

#jizzass

[@mjc0961]

In hexadecimal that number is "ieXGf" Unless that means something special to Space Quest, I don't think it's hex.

[@spacequesthistorian]

Could mean "i.e. my ex-girlfriend"? Although that makes little to no sense.

[@countersurprise]

In ASCII, its EATLE. Makes no Sense too

[@JesseH76]

Am I mistaken, I could of sworn they played Kirk vs. Spock music from Star Trek during the battle Roger vs Vohaul/Roger's Son. This was the floppy disk version. I was surprised not to hear it on the CD version. kzbin.info/www/bejne/d6HLqaygp61niac

[@spacequesthistorian]

It's the same tune in both disk and CD versions. It's not the same as the "Kirk vs. Spock" music from Amok Time, but it is a pastiche of that music. Ken Allen is a big fan of the original Star Trek composer.

[@derosiflo6524]

2,451 Memory free... Compare that to today's standard xD

[@gilm0075]

6:31 - This game promotes littering. good thing we have come SO FAR from 1991. Phew.

[@jankjason]

Would've been funny if it literally deleted the game from your system also.

[@MagusMarquillin]

And all the save games, Avoozl *would* laugh at that. :P When I first tried that I had a sudden terror that that's exactly what happened (even though the directory was clearly still there).

[@spacequesthistorian]

That would have been just cruel. As it is now, it's cruel *and* funny. ;)

[@derosiflo6524]

Wankmeister... Guess I am one too :P

[@TheInkPitOx]

Sometimes you sound American, sometimes you sound British

[@spacequesthistorian]

But most of the time I sound like an imbecile. :D