ESCAPE THE TRASH (feat. Danny of Game Grumps) | Space Quest III pt. 1 

I had the Roland CM-32L which is like a MT-32 without the buttons and display. So cool! Also later had a Sound Blaster Pro installed and some Sierra games supported both simultaneously. In Space Quest IV after the bar scene you could have MT-32 music and also hear the sound effect of when the little alien vomits.

16:58 Woah! It occurs to me that in all my years of playing Sierra games (and watching others play them), I have *never* seen anyone choose the Restart option. Also, I didn’t know you could kill Roger with the steel plate. This is, indeed, a day to remember.

I always thought that the seven buckazoids were to give you a hint at the big M since, the fun meal costs exactly 7 buckazoids.

You berate yourself for rambling or mispronouncing words. As a counter argument, I would like to point out that I'm having a fantastic time watching this series and your commentary and knowledge of the history and trivia just add to the experience. So there is no need to tell yourself to talk less because there are more voices like mine saying no, that's not necessary. Thank you for another fun video :)

Danny's a very nice man indeed. He told me to come here and now I get to watch great Space Quest videos every Tuesday. Thanks to both of you for being awesome!

26:30 - "Orbitus, look! It's Unicron!" After that line, with the bad VHS copy I had of the movie, it sounded like there was an immediate urgency to 'get to the shits' to escape. XD

I'm 4 years late, but the Grump Bump is a neverending continuous force. I'm loving this series, dude.

I liked the Leblanc Lost in Space :o

I had the Soundblaster 32, had no idea that all this went on with the sound effects! I love learning new things watching your playthroughs my good man

Ahhh, Space Quest 3, my personal favorite Space Quest game.

I'm pretty sure watching you play these through is better than if I bothered to do it myself first.

30:24 Awesome Pakled reference from TNG.

I've been very excited for this one. SQ3 was my intro to the series and still my personal favorite.

The death via the steel plate was a death I also didn't discover until very recently. Always great to find new things, even after playing some of these games for 20 or 30 years.

Not sure if best Space Quest, but definitely my favourite Space Quest. Being able to fly between planets, controlling all the individual ship components in such a tactile way, dat intro - I loves it. Even if it's inherently unfair as all Space Quest games are.

Love the part where Roger walks in and out of the shadows. Cool improvement over SQ1 and 2.

I'm playing old school runescape with these videos on in the background and I gotta say your style of playthrough is as pleasant and calming as summer rain.

Good intro as put me in mind of my first sound card, the Gravis Ultrasound. A physically long card, having spoken to the vendor who assured me it would fit in my 386PC ATX mini, realised they lied and ended taking the case off, bending the front back in order to accommodate it. The thought of returning it never crossed my mind as owning a shiny new sound card was pretty exciting in those days, and one of the games that benefited from the new card was none other than Space Quest. Thanks for the memories!

What the hell is an Aluminum Mallard?! -- Captain Quirk reading Roger's application

17:04 is actually just a sampled kick drum from the MT-32, but technically correct: A digital sound effect, yes. :)

That's some delightful digital sound you have going in there. Really blows my mind to hear Roger actually speak out his line. Great choice!

@spacequesthistorian I've been a huge Space Quest fan since summer of '88. Just came across your videos, lots of fun nostalgia. I'm a bit late to the party, but I always thought the Aluminum Mallard, while a seemingly obvious play off of the Millennium Falcon, was more of a play off of the Spruce Goose since Aluminum/Spruce is a material and Mallard/Goose are more closely related fowl.

I personally think you have a great voice for this!

The Death-Pics are AWESOME 💕💀

You don't think that getting smashed by Volhale's fist in space Quest 2 was the most gruesome death? All that was left was meat, bones, blood, and half of Rogers face...

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.

The lethal robot in the control room looks just like the robot from Short Circuit (1986 flim) Johnny 5, and that robot head looks more like something from Mobile Suit Gundam (1979 series), in my personal opinion. And I surprised you being Danish you didn't mention anything about the Lego blocks. Love SQ III all the same.

Love you and Troels! How could I have gotten any sleep within the last 8 years? (Your guy's vids put me to sleep better than anything else).

Lovin' bingin' these again! 💜💚

Hands down best game ever made. The end. Had no clue Roger actually had a voice! I even had a sound blaster damn thoes bastards! My childhood has been robbed from me!

There is a patch that allows MT-32 AND digital sound effects. In fact, such a patch exists for many of the Sierra game that had this shortcoming of not being able to mix Digital effects and Midi sound.

Wow you're like an expert on Space Quest

Another wonderful start to a play - through, looking forward to watching all of them. I appreciate and enjoy your cultural references, i.e. the "tinker toy" mention. Really interesting info embedded in some great game play!

I didnt find the bleeding out death till much later either. Riveted scrap leaning on the Jupiter 2. I used "grab metal" and it was after 2001. I was so excited, yet had no one to geek out over it

You're doing god's work

And I meant to say that that thing about the accidentally hidden Soundblaster effects is amazing :) When you said that you'd be showing something interesting that wasn't in the original, I had thought it would be the undithered graphics - the way that the graphics are actually stored in more colours than EGA can handle, but that are still stored in the file and can be rendered without dithering via ScummVM and the like.

22:17 There's a bug depending on how you run the game with digital sounds that causes the shot effect to read from incorrect resources and thus cause a loud screeching noise as Amaryot Akago found out.

Love how excited you are on this..

That's incredible about Supertramp - I had no idea about that! Something that I've been forced to admit in recent years is that Sierra were real pioneers in so many ways, even though I think that most of their games are unfair or actively hostile to the player and not very enjoyable for it. Out of all of them, though, I think the later Space Quests had the most... tolerable approach, treating you as part of the joke like an enthusiastic game show host. (That said, the generator bit can go and get fucked!) That said, the deaths got a lot more grisly here, with the added closeups - some of them remind me of the vast number of overly detailed Game Over FMVs from Fade to Black. I remember the one if you make a mistake when trying to blow a hole in the side of the garbage freighter being particularly bad. I love - and would have totally expected! - that you knew the exact locations to activate the grabber on the first try :)

You: *Announces the game title* Me: WOOOOOOOOO!!! I am currently tickling the garbage freighter thruster assembly in my 3D model. How fitting I am up to this episode :)

I got the digital sound to work on my sound blaster by using the adlib driver if I remember correctly... It was completely by accident, and it might have been my SB16 on my P90 it shocked the hell out of me because I hadn't heard Roger speak before.

16:21 - HOLY SHIT

Nitpick from too many years later: The Gravis Ultrasound was reasonably priced. It was nowhere near as expensive as Roland's products. Gravis was trying to challenge Sound Blaster's dominance in everyday multimedia PCs by putting out a better-sounding card at a similar price. For that matter, when the GUS Max came out, it was (iirc) the cheapest wavetable MIDI option on the market, at least for a little while.

1989? I'm as old as this game is!

Never knew that about the metal plate!

Not sure if someone has pointed this out yet, but you are incorrect in your statement that SQIII was the first Sierra game to have its soundtrack created by someone who was not an employee of Sierra. King's Quest IV beat it out by a year (1988), whose soundtrack was composed by Hollywood composer William Goldstein, who had been working in Hollywood composing music for various movies and TV shows since 1972. Of course, being a Roberta game, it HAD to be the first (not to mention the first game ever to support sound cards). :) I know you briefly mention it, but are you planning on going into details about the upgrade from AGI to SCI-0 and the differences between the two graphical engines and what they were capable of? Also, as far as how you're supposed to know where the generator is, there is a wire which connects the lights that leads off to that corner. If you follow it and type look lights and look wire, I believe it mentions the generator. Anyways, I look forward to more, as always!

I have a theory that the rats that rob you in the tunnel are the Furkunz rodent-aliens in "Vohaul Strikes Back" fan game. They just migrated to a different planet. Yeah I know that VSB is fanon and not canon, but I like to think of it as canon because I liked that fan game :P

The sound after SQ 1 and 2 :-) wow

I don't remember anymore what I had - I thought I had a Soundblaster but I remember an awesome soundtrack and voices and all those good stuff :) So I don't know.

I played this game on my IBM with CGA 4 color graphics.

If you have an MT-32, you can play Space Quest 3 with both the MT-32 music and the digital sound effects in ScummVM.

Love the video! Quick question: for those of us that don't have the updated sound driver for the Steam version of SQ3, do you have a recommended link for downloading and installing it? Thanks in advanced, and keep up the good work!

Reminds me of vector graphics being drawn on the C64 ☺️

3's personally my least favourite of the original 3 games, but can't deny how much of an impressive leap the graphics and music took. That intro music is so good. IIRC, the Buckazoids in the chair are just enough to buy a Happy Meal from Monolith Burger so you can find the Two Guy's message at the start of the game.

I had to go back and play my game to be sure, but I have MT-32 emulation with Munt under DOSBOX, and it plays these digitized sound effects fine. In fact most of them sound better then they do here, and there's a lovely hum to the powered Mallard that seems to be missing from the Sound Blaster. They only thing I sadly don't have access to is Roger's 3 first words. I set this up years ago, so I don't remember if there was a fan patch made for this or what, but it's worth another look.

Wait, you mean if I get it on GoG I don't hear him speak?!?! AAAAGGGHHHHH

I do have a question. I heard a rumor that the body of Slug Vohal (sorry if misspelt) was in the trash heaps in the junk ship. Do you think this is true? Y/N

Hey look it is Space Quest coming back with a great game after Space Quest 2. And oh boy it is an SCI EGA dithered to all hell game at that. Yes indeed.

Are you proud of me that I know Superstramp and that I listen to them/him? ^^

So, this is most likely me being a victim of the 'Mandela Effect' but I swear when I first played SQ3 on my 386 back in '88-90' that the color scheme of the Mallard's control panel was a blue border with bold yellow lettering...of course after moving I couldn't actually replay the games until the 1997 collection, as I lost the disks in moving and got a new computer, and ever since then it's been the green color scheme

Youre wrong! they told you in the first two games exactly how much time passes when you dont get concrete numbers. and i quote "Once Again time passes.... and then more time passes." lolol That exactly how long he was floating around. :)

11:05 VIPER

No no no, I simply cannot suspend my disbelief in this story if you don't play Roger as if he had no idea what he was doing or what he'd do - with exacting precision - with a warp motivator. what, you're too cool to walk back across the garbage 20 times?

I thought William Goldstein (KQ4) was the first non-Sierra composer?

I feel like I'm one of the few who doesn't really think much of the Space Quest 3 theme in comparison to the original theme. BUT, it is great as a monolith burger theme. (and I also couldn't give a toss about the Mallard. I was all about the planets :) )

If there is such a low regard for organics on the garbage freighter, then why is there apparent life-support system there (air)?

I Just want to see you play Sierra games every day not all the other stuff.

Check out my video "Space Quest III (1989) MIDI soundtrack on pro Roland synth" for a remaster on a 90s pro synthesizer.

Isn't that Yellow Diamond's arm???

I've got to admit I was jammin to the intro music to the game.

What is your Name now almighty Mister Space Quest Historian? Since i am from Austria I am sure I can pronounce your name :D

So you prefer the mallard over the (SQ I VGA) chicken, huh?

Wait, what? I've been pronouncing it as "trolls" for years...

No mention of the Lego, I don't believe you're actually Danish.

#BoneTissue

Hi ssir

That's so cool. I want to make a space quest 3, intrepid fan style, Sierra-style of that era game of my life exaggerated. All sounds would be 16 bit, 48kH .wavs "Visual stimulation" would be limited... I think this is appropriate.