MissChief said to All: <=-

Space Quest 1. The first game I played on my first computer.

Loved the whole series. Space Quest 1's arcade sequence in the desert
pissed me the hell off, otherwise it was really good. And it seems like
most of the series had really annoying mini-games

SQ2 - the stupid vine maze
SQ IV - The stupid ass air roller skating in the middle of the mall
SQ V - I *really* hated the stupid floor waxer mini-game

It's like Sierra enjoyed punishing the people who played their games. And
we would give them all of our money so they could punish us!

Wait... What?


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SQ2 - the stupid vine maze

Oh man. I remember this.

SQ IV - The stupid ass air roller skating in the middle of the mall

YES! Holy hell. I damn near broke many mice trying to get past this stupid scene. What was the point of it?!

SQ V - I *really* hated the stupid floor waxer mini-game

Agree, though this was really more of an annoyance than anything really detrimental IMO. In any case these games all had some rather annoying parts.

In LSL1 I think the annoying part would be the casino...having to metagame it to save after every successful spin. I guess it seemed cool in the design discussions but what a pain in the ass.

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Any fans of the original Alone in the Dark? Loved that game! It was hard as hell though. I remember finally beating it one day thanks to an article in a PC gaming magazine. I still have my boxed copy from the early 90s on the shelf here, along with my PCBoard bound manuals, haha!

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Loved the whole series. Space Quest 1's arcade sequence in the desert pissed me the hell off, otherwise it was really good. And it seems like most of the series had really annoying mini-games

SQ2 - the stupid vine maze
SQ IV - The stupid ass air roller skating in the middle of the mall
SQ V - I *really* hated the stupid floor waxer mini-game

It's like Sierra enjoyed punishing the people who played their games. And we would give them all of our money so they could punish us!

I remember a tunnel in one of the episodes. That was a pain, I ended up
asking one of my friends at school to get me through it, so technically I
never finished that one.

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esc wrote to Bex <=-

Oh man. I remember this.

Woman. :)

SQ IV - The stupid ass air roller skating in the middle of the mall

YES! Holy hell. I damn near broke many mice trying to get past this
stupid scene. What was the point of it?!

It was extra-annoying since the rest of the mall level was so good! Though looking back at it now, it was also pretty sexist and trans-phobic. It's amazing what we used to find amusing back in the 90s...


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MissChief wrote to Bex <=-

SQ IV - The stupid ass air roller skating in the middle of the mall

It's like Sierra enjoyed punishing the people who played their games. And we would give them all of our money so they could punish us!

I remember a tunnel in one of the episodes. That was a pain, I ended up asking one of my friends at school to get me through it, so technically
I never finished that one.

Was it the stupid one where you have to get a jarful of acidic slime? 'cuz
that sucked too.


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I remember a tunnel in one of the episodes. That was a pain, I ended asking one of my friends at school to get me through it, so technical I never finished that one.

Was it the stupid one where you have to get a jarful of acidic slime?
'cuz that sucked too.

I think it was the Pinkunz vine maze. I had to google search for some pics to see if I remembered it.

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Woman. :)

Ha, my bad! Though I use 'man' as a colloquialism when speaking to people of any gender. It's sorta like 'dude' for me (which I also use ambiguously).

It was extra-annoying since the rest of the mall level was so good!
Though looking back at it now, it was also pretty sexist and
trans-phobic. It's amazing what we used to find amusing back in the
90s...

I really enjoyed that level as well. It probably has something to do with that being the quintessential kids-hang-out-in-malls era :P

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On 04 Sep 22 17:18:30 MissChief wrote...

Loved the whole series. Space Quest 1's arcade sequence in the
desert pissed me the hell off, otherwise it was really good. And
it seems like most of the series had really annoying mini-games

SQ2 - the stupid vine maze SQ IV - The stupid ass air roller
skating in the middle of the mall SQ V - I *really* hated the
stupid floor waxer mini-game

It's like Sierra enjoyed punishing the people who played their
games. And we would give them all of our money so they could
punish us!

I remember a tunnel in one of the episodes. That was a pain, I ended
up asking one of my friends at school to get me through it, so
technically I never finished that one.

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To which Darklord replies...

Hahaha, I loved the Space Quest series on my Atari ST - I had a lot of
fun playing it! :)


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On 06 Sep 22 17:24:00 Bex wrote...

Though looking back at it now, it was also pretty sexist and
trans-phobic. It's amazing what we used to find amusing back in the
90s...

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To which Darklord replies...

Personally, I think it's kinda pointless to judge another era (with all
of it's different standards) through today's lens...

But the Space Quest series rocks! Love it, still replay 1,2, and 3 on my
Atari ST today. :)


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I never got around to playing the Space Quest series... I'll have to see
about going back to that...

I'm still in the middle of my Ultima replay, and then I think I'm going
to go play with Nox Archaist on the Apple.

But after that....

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On 18 Sep 22 15:15:30 Commodore Clifford wrote...

I never got around to playing the Space Quest series... I'll have to
see about going back to that...

I'm still in the middle of my Ultima replay, and then I think I'm
going to go play with Nox Archaist on the Apple.

But after that....

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To which Darklord replies...

Oh you really should - the humor laced throughout the game is
just...choice. :)


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I never got around to playing the Space Quest series... I'll have to see about going back to that...

SQ3 is an excellent game all the way through. Just the right mix of strategy and some arcade-y stuff that doesn't get in your way /too/ bad.

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Commodore Clifford wrote to Darklord <=-

I never got around to playing the Space Quest series... I'll have to
see about going back to that...

The first four games run perfectly in ScummVM, V and VI run fine in DOSbox
or Wine. No better time to start playing! (:


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On 27 Sep 22 10:19:00 Bex wrote...

Commodore Clifford wrote to Darklord <=-

I never got around to playing the Space Quest series... I'll
have to see about going back to that...

The first four games run perfectly in ScummVM, V and VI run fine in
DOSbox or Wine. No better time to start playing! (:

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To which Commodore Clifford replies...

I have to admit, getting ScummVM set up has been something on the to-do
list that I haven't managed to get to yet...

But now, I might have more motivation.

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