SQ1 VGA: Stop the Hate

[Troels Pleimert]

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. ;)

[suejak]

I dunno, Troels... I was BORN when SQ1 EGA was released...

[MusicallyInspired]

I was two when SQ1EGA was released...so what? :P

 

Whoa, almost exactly two years apparently. It was in October.

[Johnathon]

You know, I do have memories though, crystal clear, of observing my father playing space quest 2. Specifically, I remember him walking into the screen on Labion where the giant carnivorous mushrooms resided, and getting eaten by one of them. I was amused by that. I also observed him choking from the spore dust. I remember calling him "funny guy" because of those observations. I would go up to my father and plead "funny guy!, play funny guy!" because I wanted to watch him play it. I must've been two, three years old at the most during the time.

Years later when I dug up the sq3 diskettes (as I mentioned, he'd misplaced/lost the ones for games one and two), at age 8, and had played through to the planet pestulon (where the aluminum mallard first lands, and there are swirling cyan plants all around) I was very confused as to why suddenly there was only one screen on that green planet, and walking any direction led to the sequence where Roger observes the pirates coming out of the bunker. I'd mistaken Pestulon for Labion as I'd remembered it 6 years prior, when I was two years old, and was expecting to see those giant mushrooms again.

Ahhh...

[tomimt]

I've always liked the art direction SQ1 VGA, as I dig the whole b-sci-fi feel quite a bit. But I do agree that as an SQ game it stands out like a sore thumb, as the other SQ games have so different art style