NOT AN OBVIOUS TRAP AT ALL | Space Quest 6 pt. 5

[@KSUTAU]

If no one delivers that speech at my funeral, I will come back and haunt all my friends and family.

[@spacequesthistorian]

Tr00.

[@MagusMarquillin]

I love how detailed the animation of Roger's Grief stricken face was, however rushed the suspect relationship was. You know how they could have made the players connect with Stellar faster? Give her role to Flo. Or Zondra. Hell even Droole could have worked, if they had dared. Maybe not WD40 or Cliffy. Flo at least was already crushing on him, and could have worked even with the whole divorced-cougar thing going on. At least with any of these people were established characters that don't need an infodump of exposistion, and we'd care if they had a funeral. But then we couldn't do that sweet "Streetcar Named Desire" gag - that was worth it.

[@spacequesthistorian]

Or - I'm just spitballing here - have it be Beatrice. That would have seriously clenched some buttocks. But, nope, had to go with the unfulfilled love triangle thing.

[@MagusMarquillin]

Yeah, I know, _cleche drama_ - a little too King's Questy? But at least having a love triangle where it's between true love and potentially wiping out your existence and the lives of millions has some unique story potential - I think Joss was on to something there. Maybe Roger could have grown to despise Bea for some contrivance. We still barely know her. Hard to know how it would have turned out, if the unmade sequels would even have had consistent developer vision.

[@richardperspective]

I suspect that Stellar is at least in part down to the original title being a Carmen Sandiego pun ("Where In Corpsman Stellar Santiago Is Roger Wilco?"). Even with the cough-cough nature of the term not being as strong in the US, I don't see Sierra putting out a game box with the words 'Beatrice Wankmeister' in a big jaunty font.

[@spacequesthistorian]

@Magus Marquillin I'm pretty sure it would turn out the other way around, like Beatrice growing to despise Roger for a number of not-so-contrived reasons. ;) Actually, wait until you see me play Incinerations (if you haven't seen it already). Bea is shown as being more than a little fed up with Roger's antics, and I think it comes off as very genuine. Richard doesn't, but we can have that fight later. ;)

[@MagusMarquillin]

Yeah, your probably both right. Thanks for the reminder to play incinerations, hard to believe I put it off for so long, but I've got to do it before you give away the puzzles. What's the order of things for you after SQ6? SQ2vga, VSB and conclude with incinerations? Are you going to do SQ1VGA, or the other fan games?

[@G00berella]

After spending countless days trying to figure out the datacoder puzzle (didn't have internet yet) the crash just after the sickbay was a kick in the teeth. Also, never knew about the random Cedric line!

[@spacequesthistorian]

The random Cedric line completely threw me as a kid, since I'd never played KQ5 then. Error 47 was absolutely a kick in the teeth, no question. At the time I played it, I had a 486 DX/2, so my computer just breezed through that part, no problem. It wasn't until I started getting reports for the Space Quest FAQ that "Space Quest 6 is an unplayable mess!" that I learned about the horrors that will forever live on in our hearts as Error 47.

[@Gradius6]

I believe the "stairs were banned during the Ford administration" line at around 5:00 was a reference to Gerald Ford and a rather infamous incident (at the time) involving him, a flight of airplane steps, and a lack of balance on his part. There's a similar gag in Space Quest 3.

[@ShadeMeadows]

13:25 That robot reminds me of the robot that dragged your pod in the beggining of SQ3!

[@spacequesthistorian]

It does, actually! Nice catch!

[@Aldranis]

When I saw the guy with the elephant trunk during the funeral scene I thought “Hey that looks like Beek from Under a Killing Moon!” then you said it and burst out laughing. You sure know your stuff.

[@spacequesthistorian]

OMG you too? I almost cut that out 'cos I thought, "Fuck me, that's an odd reference, no one's gonna get that." But it was right in the middle of a line of dialogue so I couldn't cut it. Cheers, man!

[@Scythus]

10:55 Yes! I noticed that too! why did the developers want to bury SQ 5 like it never happened? I'm sorry if you already explained that. If that's the case I must've missed it.

[@spacequesthistorian]

The short answer is: Josh Mandel was told he could design Space Quest 5, but then Sierra turned around and gave it to Mark Crowe instead.

[@kaelside]

I died laughing at "...what in the SHIT is this thing?!" :D The catch on the audio line was also most impressive. EDIT: Fixed typo

[@kimballinfidel6447]

5:15 I too was a victim of error 47. I spent years imagining what the rest of the game would be like.

[@spacequesthistorian]

We actually figured out what's causing it. There's an explanation towards the end of this video: kzbin.info/www/bejne/f5iblItse7l6p5o

[@Autumnal_willow]

I just absolutely love your logo

[@spacequesthistorian]

Thanks! Mark Crowe drew that, and my friend Christian Giegerich stuck it inside the StarCon triangle logo.

[@Autumnal_willow]

@@spacequesthistorian Wow! Very cool ✨

[@Jukka-PekkaTuominen]

That talk about cyberspace sounds a lot like what was used in the movie Disclosure.

[@Tybron]

The "STELLLAAARRRR!" shout was actually a "A Streetcar Named Desire" reference, which given how old that play is, would make it definitely an "OK Boomer" moment, had The Simpsons not featured an episode where Marge plays Stella Dubois in a musical version of that play (which is how millennials like me first heard about it).

[@actionvestadventure]

Okay... for someone who has always pointed out Ken Williams sightings... how'd you not say anything about that Ken Williams looking extra at the funeral? Tsk tsk heh. Also like how Roger's speech spoofs Kirk's from Wrath of Khan.

[@spacequesthistorian]

I, um... was tired? 😅 I honestly don't know. These videos are all a blur.

[@actionvestadventure]

@@spacequesthistorian Hmmm... okay, I suppose. Maybe in the next Mega Ultimate Anniversary series playthough hehe 😜

[@Calculon1712]

Denny Delk was also in Kings Quest 7 as the Troll king. He voiced a lot of LucasArts trailers as well for upcoming games and a lot of Star Wars titles. He'll always be Murray the demonic skull to me.

[@spacequesthistorian]

Yup, dude got around. My personal favorite is probably Green Tentacle, though.

[@Calculon1712]

Space Quest Historian don't you mean Purple Tentacle?

[@spacequesthistorian]

He voices both. :)

[@darthzounds4889]

Is there a story behind the caricature of yourself on the bottom left? I just keep wondering about it.

[@spacequesthistorian]

Yes, there is! And it's going to come across as bragging, so I apologize for that in advance. The caricature was drawn by Mark Crowe, one of the Two Guys From Andromeda. A friend of mine who works in animation named Christian Giegerich took that caricature and placed it inside a StarCon logo, thus creating the SQH logo in its final form. I've been using it since 2012 and I'll never change it. I love it so much. :)

[@darthzounds4889]

@@spacequesthistorian I'm not going to lie, I love it too. It reminds me both of a caricature that Jhonnen Vasquez did of himself, as well as the two Almighty Tallest from the cartoon 'Invader Zim.' Admittedly, I have said this before!

[@dragonfurry69]

13:52 Wasn't Dr. Bellows the boss of Tony Nelson in I Dream of Jeannie?

[@COCHESEkramer]

Happy New Years!

[@spacequesthistorian]

To you, too!

[@cylisplaysgames]

When I receive an instant message or a text, I have Roger Wilco say the line, "A message for me? I must be getting popular! I wonder what it is."

[@spacequesthistorian]

I find that if I set any notification or alarm sounds to stuff I love from any series, I get annoyed with them really fast, and I wouldn't want to do that with anything Space Quest.

[@cylisplaysgames]

@@spacequesthistorian I am an introvert so I hardly ever get text messages, so the message is apt... :P

[@JDHJANUS]

A couple of random questions that I've never thought of before. Do you think Kielbasa is in on the Sharpei's plans for Roger, or do you think that she just lied to him? Is Kielbasa a villain? Also, does Xenon ever get mentioned in Space Quest V or VI? It seems to have just been completely forgotten about with all of the StarCon stuff. Just curious. Looking forward to more!

[@derosiflo6524]

Let's make at least 5k subs these year! Can't wait what you'll do in 2018 :D Best regards from Austria

[@spacequesthistorian]

Thank you! Hope you had a good new year, too! 5k subs might be reaching, though - I think I've had my "blowing up" moment already. 😊

[@Mick89.]

16:00 ! 16:55 !

[@LORDSofCHAOS333]

Happy new year 2020 trum as oure new overlode

[@imveryangryitsnotbutter]

Goodness, your nails are looking fabulous.

[@spacequesthistorian]

I know! :D Too bad I had to take it off again. I felt very pretty.

[@jankjason]

Where in the galaxy is Stellar Santiago?

[@MagusMarquillin]

*Corpsman Santiago. Or the alternate title: "Where in Avoozl is Devon Aidendale." Shit. I messed that up.

[@jankjason]

The joke was about the game and cartoon series "Where in the world is Carmen Santiago?" since Stellar pretty much has the same last name, it's why I didn't include her rank.

[@MagusMarquillin]

Yep, but Corpsman sounds a lot like Carmen. In fact an alternate title considered for this game was "Where in Corpsman Santiago is Roger Wilco?" I assumed from your joke you knew that, but if not, I might have spoiled a bit of the game for you...

[@jankjason]

I just didn't remember the reference to what you said if I did notice it back when I played it.

[@spacequesthistorian]

The original title was indeed "Where in Corpsman Santiago is Roger Wilco?". I think it's a terrible title, although I'm not sure "The Spinal Frontier" is much better. Okay, it *is* better.

[@Terezar]

When I first played this game it was on my, at the time, wicked fast pentium pc, and the cycle bug that causes the game to crash always got me here too. I had to download this processor slowing program that was really popular back in the day, mo slo I think it was. That was frustrating lol

[@spacequesthistorian]

Yeah, I remember fidgeting around with MoSlo back in the day. I think I was more partial to Turbo, 'cos - I can't remember, I think my computer just worked better with that, or it used up less base RAM or something.

[@courtneydoss8572]

The butts are back!

[@spacequesthistorian]

It's almost *too much* fine slug booty for KZbin to handle.

[@courtneydoss8572]

Demonetized

[@mjc0961]

Well, so far we've had Logan Paul filming himself laughing at a dead man, Donald Trump getting into another pissing match with Kim Jong-un, and two massive CPU vulnerabilities. It's too early to say that 2018 won't be a good year, but we're off to a really bad start.

[@spacequesthistorian]

On the plus side, Snail Trek Chapter 3 and Captain Disaster are out. And they'll run even if your CPU takes a 30% performance hit. :)

[@jasonblalock4429]

"Oh 2018, you sweet summer child." -2021

[@mortymer001]

Liftbay Relay Outlay Array sounds like hes speaking pig latin lol

[@CarrotNinja1]

I love your fingernails

[@spacequesthistorian]

Thank you! So do I. :) My wife hates 'em, though, so I rarely get to tart up like that anymore.

[@mjc0961]

Welp. Bye character we only just met. 🤷

[@spacequesthistorian]

This game does that *a lot.*