Space Quest I: Roger Wilco in the Sarien Encounter (PC) Playthrough - NintendoComplete

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A playthrough of Sierra On-line's 1991 graphic adventure for PCs running Dos, Space Quest I: Roger Wilco in the Sarien Encounter.
Space Quest: The Sarien Encounter was first released in 1986, making it the second of Sierra's pillar "Quest" series of games, following 1984's King's Quest and predating the original games in Leisure Suit Larry, Police Quest, and Quest for Glory series.
And what King's Quest did for merging computer story telling with classic fairy tales, Space Quest does with an extremely tongue-in-cheek approach to sci-fi movies. Riffing on everything from 50s B-movies to Star Trek and Star Wars, there are myriad references to find for fans of the original works. And just about all of them are hilariously irreverent.
Roger Wilco is a spaceship janitor (an intersrallar sanitation engineer?) who wakes up after a nap in a broom closet only to find that his ship has been taken over by an evil alien race. Once he figures that out and manages to not look like his now inside-out shipmates, he escapes as the lone survivor to the planet Kerona, where further off-color hilarity ensues. To discuss it too much is to spoil the magic of the storytelling and the writing, so forgive me for not going into more detail.
This 1991 VGA remake is a fantastic reenvisioning of the 1986 original. Not limited by EGA graphics, 256k of memory, and a text-parser, Roger Wilco in the Sarien Encounter offers up a pretty fantastic looking rendition of the game world. Of course purists will prefer the original 1986 release, but I loved the style that they went with here. It's almost note-for-note the same game, but the hand-painted backgrounds, Adlib music, and heavy increase on the amount of descriptive text in-game made it a much more vivid experience for me.
Either way, you can't go wrong. Space Quest is an epic love-letter to the most well-worn set of Hollywood tropes imaginable, yet still creates something quite fresh and entertaining from it. Even managing to surpass the early King's Quest games in many ways, it's an undeniable classic in EGA or VGA.
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@NintendoComplete 7 лет назад

It's hard to imagine any PC gamer not being familiar with the Space Quest series, but any long-time fan can tell you just how special this series is. As the comedy/sci-fi cousin to King's Quest, SQ was an amazingly original (and hysterical) adventure game that went totally against the grain of its contemporaries. Thank God it did: it's as brilliant as it is odd.

@starofjustice1 7 лет назад

Ah, Space Quest, when adventure game designers realized they could be funny. Nothing against King's Quest but this is one of the big games that really got me into point and click with its jokes alongside the danger. One of the greats, SQ1.

@Dorian_Scott 3 года назад

*_"Space Quest"_* . A name that has aged as well as a glass of fine wine. Developed by the *_INCREDIBLY_* talented brains at *_"Sierra On-Line"_* , the game is an excellent, comedic adventure where you play as *_Roger Wilco_* going to save his planet from the *_evil_* *_Sariens_* . As a kid with a *_DOS_* computer, I have never played this version of *_"SQ1"_* . I am far too used to the "parser" system that it shares with the early *_"King's Quest"_* & *_"Police Quest"_* games. Looking at this VGA, Point-&-Click version, I like the nuances here... but the graphics, while good just look off to me. It doesn't really fit this game as well as it does for say *_"Leisure Suit Larry"_* . Also, that slight nod to *_"SQ4"_* in *_"Ulence Flats"_* is just awesome. I'm gonna give it a go sometime.

@MrTuco40 7 лет назад

your dedication to your channel blows my mind. dont know how you find the time to master these games. amazing. please continue.

@hanchiman 7 лет назад

Before I knew any English (Didn't learn English until like late 1991 to 1992 somewhere) I used to mix up between Space Ace and Space Quest, also never understod how Space Quest was played as I was still in NES stage. Anyways Space Quest sure is a forgotten title and protagonist, nowadays characters like Roger Wilco is done by "indie" developer who is made as an "Edgy Ironic" Protagonist

@Dorelaxen 7 лет назад

Ahh, this is the good stuff. My bread and butter genre. You should try Space Quest: Incinerations sometime. It's a fan made game, but WOW, the quality is absolutely stunning. It's also hard as BALLS in spots.

@MrWolfTickets 7 лет назад

text parser on sq1 taught me to type 60 wpm, so I have a soft spot for that and pq1 ☺ I really appreciate the detail in your description, too!

@MultiVince95 7 лет назад

Nice

@big-willy-t4860 7 лет назад

that nice nintendocomplete

@christophercambron926 3 года назад

Yes

@YiYaEmperor Год назад

7:30 what, no solution where you got this code?

@DerivativeWorker 7 лет назад

Those bits where you have to punch symbols on a number pad, was that copy protection of some sort?

@NintendoComplete 7 лет назад

+ESmith It was in the disk version. The codes were in the manual. It shows them to you in this CD version, but if you don't write them down when they give those codes, you won't be able to finish the game.

@Dorian_Scott 3 года назад

@@NintendoComplete Ugh. I remember that. I *HATE* when *_"Sierra"_* games did something like that. King's Quest V: 😮 _"Whoa! This rat is about to get eaten by this cat! Better catch i-"_ [GAME] *_"Too Late!"_* [ME **rage quits**] It's terrible game design.