12 Facts About Space Quest

1.

Space Quest is a series of six comic science fiction adventure games released between 1986 and 1995.

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2.

Space Quest III was written in Sierra's Creative Interpreter, which had 3-D capabilities.

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3.

Space Quest IV marked an evolution in terms of graphics by increasing the number of colors from 16 to 256.

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4.

Roger Wilco is a fictional character and the protagonist of the Space Quest series, introduced in Space Quest: The Sarien Encounter in 1986.

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5.

The first two Space Quest games allowed the player to choose the character's name, which defaulted to Roger Wilco if left blank.

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6.

Space Quest meets Beatrice Creakworm Wankmeister, with whom he becomes romantically involved.

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7.

Space Quest eventually discovers the sinister activities of a video game company known as ScumSoft run by the "Pirates of Pestulon".

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8.

Space Quest's voice is a parody of Captain Jean-Luc Picard from Star Trek: The Next Generation.

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9.

Space Quest games were made compatible by the licensing of DOSBox, a free program that allows users to play old DOS games on Windows XP.

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10.

Space Quest is described as a "custodial knight" and the mop is used to defeat enemies in a maze portion of the game.

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11.

Game acts as a spiritual successor to the Space Quest series, including the use of a blue-collar worker as its protagonist.

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12.

Space Quest is a chicken superhero based on the Astro Chicken running gag in the Space Quest series.

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