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good stuff mate!!

oh, the sugar cube on fire thing seems to be a late, czech variation, possibly no older than the 1990s, and is the first thing anyone who likes historic absinthes tells you NEVER to do; theatrical yes, but why, you paid for that ABV you're burning away ? Belle epoque ritual was dripping cold water over a sugar cube and into the glass, until the cube dissolves, and many would skip the added sugar entirely, and just louche it by the added cold water like people still do with various anise liqueurs today (pastis, ouzo, sambuca); absinthe in the style from that period is pretty pereceptually sweet anyhow due to a strong anise and fennel flavor (another thing lacking in the 90s dyes and additives in vodka version of 'absinthe').

22:40 I remember you can also push the throttle in VAC mode and bore the craft in the ground.

15:56 Supposedly Tolkien also played this game and got his inspiration for a shiny ring in a deep cave from this scene. Basically, Gollum is a janitor too.-

8:14 In fact it's not a root monster, they clearly are myxomycetes ua-cam.com/video/EdFLuuQRf0Q/v-deo.html

WD40's position as science officer is strangely prescient of Seven Of Nine on Star Trek Voyager - taking on a similar role and with an eerily similar characterization. SQ5 came out a full 4 years before she joined the cast of that show, though....

27:12 I loved SQ5 as a kid - and as a Trekkie - but as an adult, its veering towards being more overtly a parody of Star Trek works against it in my opinion. Space Quests 1 through to 4 felt distinctly like their own thing. They made fun of all kinds of sci-fi, but also established their own universe with their own distinctive style. Space Quest 5 is more like Galaxy Quest the movie: it's funny and a brilliant comedic take on Star Trek, but it loses something of it's own identity in the process, never quite reaching the same heights as the first four games, and for my money even Space Quest 6 felt more in keeping with the style of those first 4 games in the series. Don't get me wrong, SQ5 is a beautiful game. But it doesn't truly feel like Space Quest.

I've probably wasted time in more regrettable ways than playing police quest, but it's up there!

19:00 I remember if you stand next to the humanoid dust pile for a bit, the wall will open and a new bit of dust is added to the pile. Some new poor soul has been zapped.

Depending on the order in which you do the trials, you can get a slightly different scene when you get out of the water. If you visit the governor's mansion last, it'll bypass the scene with Guybrush and Elane on the bridge completely, and simply have you climbing out just in time to see LeChuck's ship leaving with (apparently) Marley in it. This means the 'relationship' with her isn't wholely established, which changes a few later dialogue scenes too. Nothing too Earth shattering, but it does change the game up some.

+1 on wanting a follow-up - thereˋs more interesting stuff to talk about for sure!

There's an interesting alternative ending if you get Dave killed and finish the game without him, where Sandy basically says something like she wasn't really that into him anyway lol

The "What Is" command is one of those things that persisted until Monkey Island abandoned it. I've seen people compare it to the 'Penny Farthing' effect: sometimes, something which is more intuitive and seemingly pretty obvious (like being able to contextually find everything using the mouse) isn't thought about until much, much later, similar to bicycles having wildly different sized wheels until someone invented the gear chain. Another excellent example of this is that 'Read' is an option, but 'Look At' is not.

Aside from the Bjorn, the crewmembers being turned into sorbet balls as a means of taking over the ship is also an oblique reference to Star Trek The Original Series episode "By Any Other Name", where something similar befalls the crew of the Enterprise.

Mark Crowe doing the graphics in the first 3 games is so under-rated in a way. There's absolute consistency even across the change from AGI to SCI, the escape pod for example is recognizably the same one from the end of SQ2, and although he's a little more expressive, Roger too looks and moves exactly as he did before. I sometimes feel like other Sierra series had trouble maintaining that kind of similar look across games, because the graphics were so often done by new artists in every game.

I played the Space Quest games on the Amiga originally, and I distinctly remember that the final asteroid section was prone to some of the worst slow down in the game. The Amiga really struggled any time the cleaning robot came into the screen, and the combination of the alert sound and flashing lights in that final run to the escape pod left the poor little Amiga straining to cope. It made me realize that even before the VGA versions became such spectacular messes, Sierra was already really bad at optimizing their software for the Amiga.

I agree with the conclusion, Leisure Suit Larry 7's interface is great. It's the best of both world.

All jokes aside, some landscape looks stunning! How did you put them in the game?

This was such a treat! Loved it !

Shigeru Miyamoto: Yeah, we used owls as exposition dumps in Ocarina Of Time AND Link's Awakening. They can be pretty annoying lol. Roberta Williams: Hold my beer

Great to see it all back. I do regret not seeing you demonstrate all the ways you could die, the word 'ultimate' made me expect to see *all* the content this game has to offer. 9:15 For years I tried this computer to retrieve other cartridges for me. How can there not be an easter egg here? 11:20 I always wondered where the alien went after he left. 30:27 Fun fact: the sound effect of the hologram speaking is the same sound of Vohaul speaking in his craft.

well, this vid got me to watch the playlists of Vohaul Strikes Back and Incinerations first before continuing, as you mention "we've" just played through them as well. I think it would be better if those two were part of the ULTIMATE playlist as well, it seems like they were meant to be the part of this mega run. I can't honestly say I liked the latter very much, far far too hollywoody for me, however the Vohaul Strikes Back was very fun (sticking to the 'canonical' ending that is) and thank you very much for having created this marathon playthrough, I'm still glad to see them all comprehensively like this!

Of course, Captain Quark's boots don't leave prints. Probably has them polished every hour on the hour

I do love me some blue suede shoes

I love the whistle version of the Space Quest theme. Very reminiscent of Star Trek OS

This is the worst take I've ever seen for a game, no lie. Mask Of Eternity made the rest of the series look like the juvenile and goofy franchise that it truly was. Mask Of Eternity to this day hearkens to the Dark Souls series that would come over a decade later and similar games of a more environmental narrative. The things introduced to the series with Mask of Eternity SURVIVED to this day in many games; thirdperson, action-based gameplay and narratives that use atmosphere and environmental story-telling are so much more sophisticated than what came before it... especially within King's Quest. Speaking of which, it has tremendous atmosphere... and a very World of Warcraft styled gameplay loop that uses the mouse cursor to interact and attack targets (though more interactive with the lack of auto-attack if I recall correctly). Furthermore, you can very easily make this game run even on modern windows engines so I have no idea what you're talking about. It will literally just run if you install the exe and mount it with any CD mounting software. It's a fantastic game and a leap forward for the narrative strength of games back then. Even games like King's Field, Ecstatica, and Dark Earth sort of paled in comparison to the adventure-styled progression of Mask of Eternity. It sort of fell somewhere between Grim Fandango and Ecstatica 2 when it come to how it presented itself. In fact, I've found that the only people who dislike Mask of Eternity are the people who like the rest of King's Quest series, which is obviously the product of bias. And that personally amazes me considering the rest of the series has the maturity of a dancing monkey.

Two Button is my go-to, and I sitll find players forgetting that there's a second button for "look at"

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I know it's six years later but considering my love for this series in the 80s and 90s, your deep dives into the Space Quest lore is amazing. Thank you for your awesomeness. PS SQ2 was the first Sierra game...amd computer game ..i ever played. It was packaged with "Helicopter 3D" and "Thexder". I also loved Thexder.

Did Black Bertha connect them directly to....Oakhurst, CA? Maybe there is something to this Bertha rumour

Quest for Glory mentioned, I'm happy. ;3

2:12:30 Start of the Text-to-Speech portion of the video.

So I was just thinking about this game, looked it up and found this video! This is incredible! Please run Monkey island 2 through an A.I thst would be awesome.

well yeah marie is on drugs before boarding the plane, she barely survived bains, noxious gas from the sewer, sonny recalling the flight he took to rescue her was drinking and the plane almost destroyed by "bad men" - yeah, marie needs a little something-something before she even takes to the sky

Honestly Police Quest is wild for a Sierra series if you think about it. A bunch of adventure games, an FMV adventure game with SWAT 1, a police real-time strategy game (with a full terrorist campaign of all things that I am amazed they got away with doing) with SWAT 2, Sierra somehow managing to make what is considered one of the best tactical shooters with their first shooter with SWAT 3 then SWAT 4 by irrational is also a cult classic.

I have not watched the entire video but I prefer the text input / parser interface far above the point and click. I learnt a lot of english through Sierra games.

Missing a shot from less than a meter away because your gun isnt sighted is crazy lmao.

6:02 How are there 50 people on this plane? There are only 32 seats, and they aren't even filled up!

The hijacking section is so strange. It comes out of nowhere, doesn’t teach police procedure, and is awfully racist, even for the time. It makes me wonder whose idea it was and why they insisted on adding it.

3:00 And yet not even a fraction as 'insensitive' as PQ4... But yeah, I never cared for this one much. There's something so heavyhanded about how it wants to herd the player down its plotline. I remember liking PQ3 better, although it's been years since I played it.

And they all lived happily ever after

19:50 Where's the equality? Roger's clothes are sucked first!

Old vid, but if I'm not mistaken you can get a band that looks very much like ZZ Top playing in the bar.

Ya know the weirdest thing is that the biggest take away I had from this video was being reminded how dissappointing the Thimbleweed Park ending was.

The interface has to die With each UI there comes a different design idea. SQH pointed out a lot of the reasons why the ideas changed, but there's a slight shift in game design that lead to radical different forms. The change in technology and taste produced different stories that produced different manipulation methods. I think the manipulation aspect of interaction with the game world is fundamentally determined by the narrative. The linear approach implicates more actions than the explorative. If the player is in one situation at a time, he has to have lots of options to manipulate that situation, so here the parser comes in handy to give the illusion of freedom, even though there are very limited correct actions. As the story progresses to the next situation, the player has to adopt to that and might get more creative to use the parser. This creativity is overwhelming when many situations are already open to the player. The more exploration is an integral part of the game, the less linear its narration could be and so the focus lies less on problem solving. Text adventures often overwhelm with an illusion of things to do, while the number of puzzles to solve the games are relatively low. In early graphic adventures this still is the case. Progress is made by narrowing the problems down. Gradually though this idea comes to its limits. The explorative game introduces more and more problems that would be overwhelming if the method of manipulation was just as complex. To have an enjoyable experience though, complexity has to be interesting. Here it comes again: The narrative shifts to another form of exploration. While the manipulation method itself was the creative field of exploration in before, the discovery of different situations now becomes the center of interest. The player merely wants to discover all the graphical world has to offer, not the vocabulary of the parser. The consequence is a change in methods of manipulation. If the game even drifts away from the exploration of the game world and gets more film like in nature, the narrative again shifts into another form which has to be reflected in the UI. In simple terms: If the interface kills the story, the interface has to die.

Before LSL7 popped up, I was about to type up a rant about how these sorts of games should swap the select action and select target steps, good to know at least one of them did.

I've always assumed the time pod materializing is actually a sequel policeman.

1:05 - No no, clearly the correct spelling was "IFNKOVHGROGHPRM".

Laura Croft when picking up an item “a ha”. King Graham when trying to pick up an item “‘tis beyond my reach!”

Great video, dude!