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I could not sleep last night and decided to Scumm it up with SQ 1 VGA.  There is some great humor going on here in the beginning of the game, things to note :

1 - When the ships timer is counting down, do you really have to wait till 1 min is left to do the last few actions to get off the ship? I had to wait till “one min” left was announced every time otherwise the guards would kill me…

2 - I loved how once you get into space you can do push 2 buttons, one of them thrusting you into Quest for Camelot!  I loved how you crash landed in front of the castle, I just played that scene like 2 weeks ago so it was super fresh, that was awesome!

Also blowing up the monster on the 1st planet with the dehydrated water was great!  now I am stuck on what to do with the organ… I know I need to use it to somehow understand the alien head… but how, not sure yet!

Fun game so far, very basic but a nice introduction to the series so far.

domith88 - 06 April 2016 12:21 PM

1 - When the ships timer is counting down, do you really have to wait till 1 min is left to do the last few actions to get off the ship? I had to wait till “one min” left was announced every time otherwise the guards would kill me…

I don’t think so, I left with 5 minutes. Where did they kill you? There is a guard in one room in when you go down the elevator where you have to hide behind the machine in the middle

domith88 - 06 April 2016 12:21 PM

2 - I loved how once you get into space you can do push 2 buttons, one of them thrusting you into Quest for Camelot!  I loved how you crash landed in front of the castle, I just played that scene like 2 weeks ago so it was super fresh, that was awesome!

Yeah, that was also a cool easter egg, although I never played Quest for Camelot…

domith88 - 06 April 2016 12:21 PM

Also blowing up the monster on the 1st planet with the dehydrated water was great!  now I am stuck on what to do with the organ… I know I need to use it to somehow understand the alien head… but how, not sure yet!

You are right about using in the alien headbut to understand him you need something else grabbed way earlier in the game

I’ll also be checking the remake along with the original. Should be interesting.
Starting Space Quest 2 now. I’ve only played it a long time ago and with the use extense use of a walkthrough because I couldn’t handle the parser. So I’m with you Advie, feels like playing it for the first time.

(That is one weird looking cover…)

I think SQ1 on Amiga in about 1987 may have been my first adventure of all time.

It was definitely SQ1 or LSL1.

SO many feelz

It’s nice to see people playing the SQ2 remake! I hadn’t actually played or touched it in years since we finished it in 2011… until a few months ago.  I booted up the source code, and had a good time remembering how we made certain things, etc.  I also found some errors, bugs, things I wanted to change.  When you make a game, sometimes you just have to let it go and release it!

Though I might just go through it a bit and fix a few things and quietly release a v2.0.  We made the game over several years in our spare time, and everyone worked for free.  The hardest part, probably was writing, programming and then recording all the lines for the extra interactions of taste and smell.  I’m glad we did those, because they were fun and the heart of SQ lies in there.  We had a lot of fun being irreverent, and most of those interactions were written by a guy named Daniel, who went by Ponderer.  I don’t know what became of him, either - he kind of disappeared off the net, and I’ve not heard from him in five years.  I think he wasn’t in the best of health, either, so I hope nothing terrible has befallen him.  I was on kidney dialysis through 90% of the production; after I got my transplant, I had a renewed sense of “Let’s get this done!” so we finished it in time for New Years Ever 2011!  We even had a big Easter Egg planned - being able to play the whole garbage freighter level of Space Quest III at the end if you got a perfect score. We had all the backgrounds done, and almost all of the programming done - not all animations got done, and none of the voices were recorded.  We ran out of time - there’s still an incomplete, forlorn SQ3 VGA Garbage Level sitting on my hard-drive.

I played SQ2 a LOT during that time, and it brought me back to the times I played it with my friends across the street growing up.  Not the strongest entry in the series, or even my personal favorite - but I loved remaking it.  It was fun, for sure.

Bt

so far playing SQ5, i find the humor is much more than the previous in teh series. 

the previous SQ games before part 5 seems a lot more serious in tone

We had a very cool SQIII remake planned; some really neat concept art was developed, including a design of Ortega that I really loved.  We only programmed the “first level” as an Easter Egg, and we thought of doing a full remake, but we decided to focus on doing our own games instead.  When we did the remakes, we were all young, unmarried, childless and in college.  By the end, many of us were married, had kids and real jobs that weren’t in game development.  (In fact, most of us still work other jobs in addition to making adventure games)  We couldn’t justify spending our time making a game, Space Quest III, that we couldn’t sell. 

Bt

Advie - 07 April 2016 06:15 PM

but thanks BT for sharing these infos with us, i would nt like to sound ‘not-appreciating’, not at all

Of course, man, we know each other! I know you’re joking around.

Bt

Well damn, a testament to how old this game is during a pioneering phase for the graphic adventure…. after trying to attempt to [spoiler] translate what the large alien head was trying to tell me I realized I needed an item, but I did not have it.  I had to look up online to see it was a translating gadget which I never got from the drawer on the space ship

So, I am now stuck on the planet with out the translator, so I can’t go on   I can just reload a save and do it again in a few mins but its still a bummer.  I thought I had to rush through the lower floor of the spacecraft during the countdown sequence,  I thought the only way to not trigger the aliens from killing you was to run through at the 1 min mark.. its a weird deduction but it was the only way that would work for me after several attempts.  I must have missed the translator because I was down to the wire as it was….

I think somehow I just made SQ 1 way more difficult then it needs to be, I voluntarily played it on “really hard mode” somehow