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Unrelated, but on the topic of the zombie: I don't know how I got this into my head, but I've always just assumed everybody knew that the zombie was actually future-Roger in the SQXII timeline. Did I just make that up? Did anybody else think that?

I have this version of the Collection and I can tell you that the SQ4 on this CD is exactly the same as the one that came out stand-alone.

I have this version of the Collection and I can tell you that the SQ4 on this CD is exactly the same as the one that came out stand-alone.

Cheers Fronzel!

Someone needs to bring up The Case of Charles Dexter Ward. Based on H.P. Lovecraft's story and created by Agustín Cordes (the dude behind Scratches and the short game Serena, which Frederik, Simo Sakari Aaltonen and yours truly helped write).
 
Our pal Simo is on board helping with the writing, and Jenny Pattinson (Quest For Infamy) is doing some art.
 
Agustín is perhaps the person in this world best suited to do a truthful adaptation of Lovecraft's work (hey, the dude named his adventure game engine "Dagon"!), and he's also incredibly sexy.
 
Kickstarter is here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/agustincordes/h-p-lovecrafts-the-case-of-charles-dexter-ward
 
And sexiness is here:
https://twitter.com/AgustinCordes/status/519869173724635137

"While we await a fully formed thought from Roger" ... I love this line. :)

Ack, I haven't even listened to the latest episode yet! (It's been insanely crazy this past week). Will try to listen to it tomorrow!
 
Talk to you later!
 
JDHJANUS
Josh

Someone needs to bring up The Case of Charles Dexter Ward. Based on H.P. Lovecraft's story and created by Agustín Cordes (the dude behind Scratches and the short game Serena, which Frederik, Simo Sakari Aaltonen and yours truly helped write).
 
Our pal Simo is on board helping with the writing, and Jenny Pattinson (Quest For Infamy) is doing some art.
 
Agustín is perhaps the person in this world best suited to do a truthful adaptation of Lovecraft's work (hey, the dude named his adventure game engine "Dagon"!), and he's also incredibly sexy.
 
Kickstarter is here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/agustincordes/h-p-lovecrafts-the-case-of-charles-dexter-ward
 
And sexiness is here:
https://twitter.com/AgustinCordes/status/519869173724635137

I was 6 years old when SQ1EGA was released and didn't play all the SQ games until the 1994 Collection release. Nostalgic bias be damned. ;)

Except one of the defining traits of Space Quest is the sense of isolation. Roger's almost always on his own. Even when there's people around him, they either actively dislike him or just plain ignore him.
 
Roger's a lone wolf. Not really conducive to multiplayer, methinks.

I'm sorry to those of you who couldn't get in, and those of you who wanted to watch but didn't know where it was happening. I neglected to tweet out the YouTube link.
 
Here was the Hangout: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vi6CsxIUzO0
 
Let's do another one soon. Josh Mandel sent a message saying he would've dropped in if he had known. :)

What I don't understand is the intro of SQ4 states that Roger is returning to Xenon from his last adventure. Did he go through another black hole? What are the chances he'd end up back in his original dimension and not some random one of infinite possibilities?
 
/overanalyzing

The Pete Toleman bits are so damn funny...
 
I enjoyed the LP of his "previous work."

Well, time is very loosely defined in Space Quest, owing in great part to that phrase "indeterminate amount of time" in the opening of SQ3. Roger floating for an "indeterminate amount of time" really screwed up the timeline in all sorts of ways, and the unexplained time between SQ4 and SQ5 didn't help much, either.
 
We know for a fact that Space Quest doesn't take place anywhere near our own galaxy. So, technically, Roger's really not even human. The only time he's ever visited our galaxy was when he went through Black Hole Bertha at the end of SQ3, and, thanks to the magic scifi trope that wormholes have become, that means he could've gone through time as well as space.
 
So we really have no way of knowing.
 
Actually, that whole business about Roger not being human made me wonder, when playing Boston McShew's "Decision of the Elders" ... what's up with the story being described as taking place "on Earth"? What's Jerry Wilco even doing there? Okay, I know this is fan fiction, sure, but ... okay, better not think too much about this.

Here's Fester

FullHD here: http://fav.me/d81c9j8

I doubt it was an edit consciously done in the name of "good taste." I mean, why leave Singent's "what the phu--" line in, but not the fish? :)
 
More likely it was an oversight brought on by bad project management.

And, as Akril pointed out in one of my podcast episodes, the fish DOES actually have inventory descriptions -- they were recorded and are in the resource file on the CD. They just weren't implemented in the game.

Now that's an interesting idea. I always assumed Black Hole Bertha transported the Mallard thousands of light years to our galaxy, and possibly through time as well. I hadn't considered the idea that it might have transported Roger and the Guys to an alternate universe.
 
Can black holes even do that? Will someone get professor Hawking on the phone?

Wha-- where? Who? How? What year is it?

There's a lot about black holes that is still theoretical, for obvious reasons.

And, as Akril pointed out in one of my podcast episodes, the fish DOES actually have inventory descriptions -- they were recorded and are in the resource file on the CD. They just weren't implemented in the game.

What Suejak said.

When has Anita ever demanded that someone's speech be squelched, particularly with reference to a game's content?
 
Some people always say she "forces her opinion down your throat," but YouTube doesn't work that way. You have to go and look at the video yourself, of your own volition.

Would you like a Blattfruit Pie with that?
 
YES / YES

All I know is I miss the color cycling logo.