EASTER EGG-STRAVAGANZA | Space Quest IV pt. 2
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- Опубліковано 11 вер 2024
- In this episode, we're not so much furthering the story as we are just exploring all the fun easter eggs there are to find in the time pod. Including one that was supposed to be in the game, but was taken out (and put back in by NewRisingSun).
Closing theme: "Space Quest III Main Theme" by James Mulvale
(Originally composed by Bob Siebenberg)
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In case you didn't catch the reference from American culture, the "this is Roger on Ortega" is a reference to an anti-drug commercial from the 90s "this is your brain on drugs."
The "Room removed for Legal Purposes" is from King's Quest VI. It's the back part of the Castle of the Crown outside of Cassima's room towards the end of the game. The music that plays in the background in that room is also from the King's Quest VI soundtrack. Looking forward to more!!!
Ah, yes, someone said it might be from King's Quest. I got my quests mixed up. Thanks for the clarification!
I was the programmer that made that hidden room.
Scott Murphy let each of the programmers add their own easter egg sequence.
@@evilbobandrews Cool! Any proof of that? Perhaps post it on your YT channel.
That dinosaur in the room removed for legal reasons is Earl Sinclair from the show "Dinosaurs" that was on ABC.
That same dinosaur sprite was in QFG1 VGA, I am not sure if it really was removed from this.
@@AvoozlPlays I think Sierra got a Cease and Desist letter from the Dinosaur folks.
Hmm the Room from KQ6 was interesting. From completing QFG1/HQ1 I can guess that the one thing on the North Wall above the ZZ top guys that was Earl Sinclair from the TV Show Dinosaurs could have been an Easter Egg enemy based off of the Enemy from QFG1/HQ1 VGA called a Sarus and they removed it due the fear of being sued by the IP of who ever owned the show. Considering the VGA remake of QFG1 was released during Dinosaurs TV show run on TV.
Edit: Correction it seems like the Earl Sinclair Easter Egg in QFG1 seems like a random event just like the Batmobile in KQ2.
Wow, I actually learned something with the slideshow in the hologram room in the sewers! 2017, been more than 24 years since I started playing SQ4, and still finding new stuff! :D
I think the most satisfying thing about watching all of these videos is remembering being a dumb kid with no internet who had absolutely no hope of completing these games who would just get stuck and rage quit and now being able to see how they finish. TY SQH.
I've missed this game. I still reference it constantly; especially that 'woh, what was that' part
Nobody ever discovered that vacation easter egg. I recall that Neil himself shared it a few years ago (I think after SpaceVenture was announced).
I kind of want to make my own series of playing Kings Quest now just to see what that story is like too. I'm a huge fan of the Sierra series of games but I've never played one myself. Keep it up my friend!
Can't have too many adventure game playthroughs. :) And I highly doubt I'll ever do a King's Quest series myself.
My one problem.....never done anything UA-cam or recorded anything. Not even sure how to run the old things! haha
I can give you a hand with that. Feel free to hit me up at contact@spacequesthistorian.com
TUESDAYS ARE NOW THE BEST DAYS!
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The knowledge you have in these games is incredible! Great job as always:)
Thank you. I can't take all the credit, though. The fine folks at SierraChest, SierraHelp, and the old SpaceQuest.net and Virtual Broomcloset forums have fastidiously archived all of these nifty secrets over time, and I've relied on them to jog my memory.
I'm only nine minutes in and already you have made some WONDERFUL facial expressions!
Hahaha! You should see the one I'm making right now. ;)
Fun fact, before the craft zooms off to the super computer mountain ( 7:47 ) there is a profile of Larry Laffer in the mid-upper right of the screen made of rubble...
That's true - although the jury is still out on whether it was intentional or not.
In mild shock over the Neil easter egg. Wow, truly a sign of the wild ye-olde times of the software business!
Some of these easter eggs laid undiscovered for a good long time. I may be mistaken, but I think the Neil easter egg was discovered last.
That voice actor for the "help" or "?" icons is the same in KQ5 who gives you a warning about skipping the cinematic cartoons and to check your inventory if you decide to skip.
The dinosaur man in the room removed for legal reasons is most definitely a reference to 'Earl Sneed Sinclair' from the American Sitcom 'Dinosaurs'(1991)
Ah, yes, I did recognize it, but I don't know what it was doing in Quest for Glory. Most likely an easter egg they had to remove.
I've never actually watched the show, other than for a few fleeting moments. I think it was on very briefly and very late on Danish tv when I was a kid.
I've heard of that -- basically, everyone dies as a meteor hits. (Hardly a spoiler, I guess?)
Dinosaurs is from 1991?!
Holy smokes, I feel so old right now. I used to eat lunch to that show when I was in primary school...
i'm really enjoying this series thus far i'm always looking forward to the next episode :)
Thank you!
Ok! You insisted on a comment as always, so here is another.
Remember, you asked for it :)
I am currently tweaking the 'duracell' batteries I've included on the SQ3 Garbage Freighter. Got the idea from the SQ4 duracell bunny, and thought I'd add a slight forshadowing into it... Probably a weird idea, but I'm going with it anyway.
Good comment! Thanks for that!
The dinosaur on the wall is an asset from the t.v. show dinosaurs, that ended w an asteroid impacting earth and killing all the dinosaurs in the show.
In the "What was that!?" line, Roger sounded like Weird Al Yankovic.
I don't think it was an intentional homage, but you're right. :)
Probably not, but the voice still sounds very similar to Al's. :P
Woah! I forgot completely about Quest for Glory!
I think my brain mushed it together with Kings Quest
Easy mistake. ;)
Also, another comment.
I love how you know so little about the other Sierra franchises. I am exactly the same. My Dad installed Kings Quest 1 (EGA... was there ever a VGA remake? I presume so?) on a couple of our machines when I was a kid, but honestly it never caught on with me. Space Quest is all I've ever loved from Sierra, honestly. It's like... I only think Sierra existed so they could produce Space Quest and all that it contains. Is that weird? Probably. I mean, so many people praise the Kings Quest series, and the Leisure Suit Larry franchise got a recentish addition (I think? I heard something...) but I think I am absolutely obsessed with Space Quest. It was such an important part of my childhood, I don't think I would be the same person if it didn't exist. SQ1 EGA was the first computer game I ever played, and I owe so much of my life to it...
Anyway, I am rambling again. On a public forum no less. That's fun! Back to the playthrough (and 3D modelling...)
My sources tell me there was no official VGA remake of KQ1. There was the AGI original and then a SCI0 remake (graphics on par with SQ3, Colonel's Bequest, QFG2, etc.).
Wow. I didn't know Roger had an idle animation beyond looking back and forth
another possibility besides that of being robots or cyborgs, taking into account the blood the possession of bubblegum and their occasional slips into casual conversational speech: the sequel police are out of work actors who'll take any gig they can get, including being henchmen for a genocidal supercomputer
cheaper than robots too (the robots all unionized)
Licking the corpse always makes me laugh so hard. Thanks for the fun watch.
There's a sentence you don't hear too often. :D
Thanks for another great episode! :) Didn't think about going back down to the surface of Xenon until very recently. You actually can get back down, different music plays when the ship lands and everything. ;)
Oh, cool. I have to try that! Thanks!
Btw, your Ms. Astro Chicken screenshot is in next week's episode. Turns out I really, *really* suck at Ms. Astro Chicken.
Space Quest Historian Big thanks to you too! I knew about the hidden room of removed stuff, just haven't been there. But I didn't know about the slideshow. :P
Like I say in the video, you can only go there if you're playing the NewRisingSun patch. Otherwise, you can only see it if you go looking in the resource files of the game.
Man, Tuesdays are starting to be my fun days :D
I'm happy I can be a part of that! Tuesday is also my fun day, 'cos I love all the comments that roll in.
Also this was the segment from the narrator's descriptions of the landscape where my younger self learned what the "Plateau Phase" was thanks to a helpful explanation from my father as we played.
A joke that would have otherwise gone completely over my head.
I actually enjoyed this episode even though it didn't push forward narrative wise because I never knew of any of the easter eggs besides the SQIII one! Also, nice haircut!
My hair is the last thing on my mind right now (even though it's on top of my head). ;)
I should have known I would get that response by saying that!
:D
this was the first spacequest my dyslexic ass was able to play. watched my cousin play the previous ones but I broke his keyboard because the game never understood 'tabel'.
Wow, Neil's European slideshow was weirdly morbid...but a lesson for us all there I guess. Can't help feeling that Chuck D won't have encountered this easter egg, someone should tell him.
This playthrough is bringing it all back! I remember the mild relief of getting to Estros & SQX after the oppressive feel of that first part of the game...even though there's probably just as much that can kill you there.
Yeah, Estros and the Galaxy Galleria may seem like reprieves. If you wait around too long on Estros, though, a pair of Sequel Policemen show up. It is possible to avoid them, but really tricky. Maybe I should show that in the wrap-up video. As for the Galaxy Galleria, you're relatively safe unless you trigger the Sequel Policemen's arrival in the arcade too soon, or if you try to leave the way you came in.
It's weird, I've wondered Estros 7 screens of scenery a lot - at least in the disk version - but I don't think the SP showed up ever.
+Magus Marquillin Definitely need to show that in the wrap-up video, then.
I left it on the manhole cover scene a little too long without touching anything, and then I got dialogue I've never remember seeing. Then Roger is forced back into the sewer.
Yes, this is something I should have shown. It takes a fair while for it to happen, though.
sql police are obviously cyborgs... Vohaul's been experimenting with them on Xenon. That one cyborg you can run on the street could easily be a retired/failed SP. Which is why they freak out when they stumble into you. (I mean other than the Them/Pod People reference).
That's not a bad theory! Although it still makes me wonder why the Sequel Policeman in the nest bleeds, then...
Over here after re-watching Danny play all the games on the grumps channel for like the 8th time. Fantastic play throughs so far! Just because it was in the secret room, Have you ever played the Hero's Quest/Quest for Glory games? They're some of my favorite Sierra games other than this SQ series, yet hardly anyone ever talks about or plays them anymore.
Thank you! I've tried getting into the QFG games but I am so absolutely unforgivably shit at RPGs or anything involving stats. I do plan on giving them a go sometime when I'm in a good space to do so. Right now, I just wanna finish up King's Quest and get started on Police Quest.
Speaking as an Imperial Stormtrooper, I can state that the Stormtroopers are humans in armor.
I didn't realize that until I saw The Force Awakens. :D
If something smells strong enough it tastes. So both are for flavour.
Your language is weird.
This video was the first video (i think) from you I've watched.
Incidentally, “suck blue frog” was a cheat code from Quest for Glory. There seems to be an ongoing thing with blue frogs somewhere. On wiki, the blue frog is a poisonous frog. I wonder if the reference is to the real frog or some other in-joke at Sierra.
I remember Roger yelling "I'm meltiiing" in a high voice on Ortega. Am I misremembering?
You're thinking of SQ1VGA. If you die to the acid drops in the underground cave on Kerona, he squeals "I'm meeeeelting..."
@@spacequesthistorian Yeah! That was it! Thank you!
You really should play the King's Quest games, at least 5&6 which I think are pretty awesome. In fact, that might be a fun thing to watch, a long time Space Quest fanatic playing KQ for the first time...
You're not the first person to say this. I have said I will play a King's Quest game at 2,500 subs, and I will.
...bring back memories of the planet "Corona"...wait what lol
I wonder if the blue frog song is referencing the blue frog cheat in Quest For Glory II.
Someone else suggested that as well. I don't know enough about QFG to confirm that.
When I first saw that room, it reminded me a section inside of Princess Cassima's castle in KQVI, is this just me?
I wouldn't know. Someone who plays King's Quest should chime in. ;)
It definitely is from the castle in KQ6.
They also ude it as the desert music in KQ7 ua-cam.com/video/ZSs3I9UQyqc/v-deo.html
Which version of spq4 do you run? I've recently been trying to find a version which has a voice over, and also one which shows the time travel cockpit (after the spaceship), not just a blue screen with instructions. Hope someone out there knows, because this lesser version spq4 isnt doing it for me.
A blue screen with instructions? Do you mean the copy protection?
Sqiv was my fav!
"blue frog" may have something to do with the cheat code "suck blue frog" from QFG. iirc it had someting to do with the blue frog coffee shop near the studio
They took the Lizard Guy out from the back because it was the father from a sitcom about a dinosaur family - pretty sure it was just called "Dinosaurs" but, the dad was kind of an Al Bundy, dumb, simple blue collar worker and that's him trudging to work with his lunch box. Sort of a juxtaposed Flintstones rip off now that I think about it.
So I've played this game so many times, but never looked up a walkthrough (because I know it well) and didn't know about all the Easter Eggs (o_O ) As for the KQ5 reference, that is an eagle carrying Graham after he is saved from a similar predicament.
I thought it was a condor? :)
The condor is from King's Quest 1, but the reference here makes sense for KQ5, since they land up in the same situation.
Oh! Thank you. I didn't know. :)
Just now i was watching Dilandau3000 and he did a let's play of SQ 4 with the fan patch back in late 2010 so there was one on UA-cam I forgot he had it and I watched it back then at the time
Ah, crap. ;) Well, I could have searched harder. But nothing came up when I searched for "Space Quest IV NewRisingSun." Thanks for letting me know.
Space Quest Historian I was just rewatching them now and he mentioned the patch in the first vid was quite surprised myself as it's been 7 years since I watched his playthrough
Oh, cool! This is so cool to watch. Also, he used my Space Quest music cover as his intro music, that's cool. :P
There will come a time, when you will long for more of the Sierra Adventure Experience, (SAE) and you will want to continue it. Space Quest may no longer be enough, when that time comes. I recommend the other Sierra games, like King's Quest. They may not be your chalice of Keronian Ale, but they will do the trick, I assure you. Don't forget the remakes, which are awfully good, too. In fact, because of the remakes, I went back to the KQ series. So, I speak a bit from experience. You might like Police Quest, as well. PQ II was my introduction to Sierra. Then, my friend, a BBS enthusiast at the time, introduced me to Space Quest. I have no idea where he found the disk he used to play it with.
I appreciate the sentiment, but I very much doubt I will. King's Quest is not fun for me - I've tried all of them, and I can't stand the high-and-mighty fantasy shit. The same kinda goes for Police Quest. I'm not opposed to doing videos on them, but I would end up making a lot of fun of them and probably offend a lot of their fanbases. I think it's better if I stay away. 😊
@@spacequesthistorian Completely understandable. If you can't get into the stories, then it would be fruitless. Also, it wouldn't make sense on this channel, since the channel fits a particular niche, and the other games would just cause confusion - unless you made an X-Quest historian alter ego. A hostile take might be interesting, though. Perhaps there could be an "Angry Sierra Game Nerd".
Of course, I was thinking more for personal enjoyment, than necessarily review material.
@@jeremygeorgia4943 I have played many other games on this channel, so consistency or sticking to brand is not something I'm good at. 😏 I did in fact play bits of all the King's Quest games a while back for charity. Even had King Graham himself, Josh Mandel, in the voice chat with me. But I honestly couldn't see myself sitting down and playing through a King's Quest game for my own enjoyment. I made a mistake once of playing Anna's Quest on this channel and the abject bitterness I felt towards the game comes across very sharply, especially in the later episodes. That felt a bit unfair to the creators of the game who obviously put a lot of time and effort into making it.
@@spacequesthistorian Fans and their boats... They don't like them rocked. I understand.
Wouldn’t Roger being able to get into the drivers compartment///area be considered an Easter egg? EDIT: 18:25 that is actually Earl Sinclair from the tv show Dinosaurs ( at least to me he looks like him)
It was definitely him, that's why he was legally removed later.
This was excellent as always! I wonder if the room of things removed for legal reasons was removed for legal reasons...
I'm pretty sure it was. :)
yeah copyrights thats why
SPOILER ALERT! Those sequel policemen are Sariens....
Just kidding, I dunno what they're supposed to be. All I know is that they're Vohaul's thugs and they're a continual pain in the ass until you give them the slip at the Mall.
That's KQ6 music. I think the background is too
Time Travel Dancing!
The Timepod Boogie!
Random extra bit for the Easter Egg room - it was later used in Akril15's Adventure: The Inside Job. (Basically Thursday Next, if she was an adventure game hero). akril15.com/games/atij/atij.html
Yup! Akril is good people. She helped us with Late Last Nite (and was the voice of Petra!).
Akril is a good person #englishsecondlanguage :)
Haha! Yes, thank you. ;)
Apparently "he's good people" is acceptable US West Coast/Seattle-ish slang. If I recall correctly, one of the Shadowrun Returns games have it.
I really like when they do special thanks to "Max".... even tho its probably a dog
also really like secrets that people dont find for years
Those are the best secrets. I love when it turns out an old game isn't done surprising you. :)
Max Deardorf. Artist and programmer.
Great video friend... as for the robot it can be wiring or some sort of oil going out of him instead of blood? I don't know I like to think like that when it is like this. Anyway came when danny played III (since the start of this series) and have been enjoying it so far. Please do keep up. Pura Vida!
Thank you! Yeah, it could be wiring/oil, but then, why would he be carrying gum? We're trying to work that out elsewhere in this video's comments. :)
For April fools next year, you should rename your channel Leisure Suit Historian, and do a vid on Leisure Suit Larry. are LSL4 where you never get to the point as there is no 4.
that Dino looks like the dad from that god awful sitcom in the 90s "Dinosaurs"
Yup, it is. No idea what it was doing in QFG, though.
Earl Sinclair was in the QfG1 remake as a random Easter Egg encounter, but I don't think they were forced to remove it - I'd like to think Jim Henson wouldn't do that sort of thing - strange that it's in that room.
A quick look at UA-cam would suggest that Earl is still in QFG1. So I have no idea what he's doing in the Room Removed For Legal Reasons. Maybe, at the time of SQ4, they *thought* they would have to take him out, but left him in anyway?
When I first played it simply said "You scoop up the slimy secretion" without the second line.
Was that the leaked beta or just an earlier version of the game?
@@spacequesthistorian The official CD compilation
Bizarre. I've never heard the line without the "better get away now before he scoops you up" bit. And I, too, played the original CD compilation.
@@spacequesthistorian Either I clicked quickly or it was a glitch. I was playing it on XP.
Sequel Police is the Combine.
I had to look that up. I've never played Half-Life 2. (Played a shitload of the first one, though. I was a teenager when that came out, and we played it a lot at LANs.)
I laughed at 1:00 xD I am from Austria haha
And relating to the text there, I've seen the parliament many times :D
All you have to do now is meet Neil Matz, then you can die happy and fulfilled. :D
23:22 You are wondering if they are human or if they are robots. Well, I think if they bleed, they must be human after all. ua-cam.com/video/BetBjyTGwsY/v-deo.html Bonus points if you can guess what that link is to.
Can you make longer episodes depending on how much trivia you tell us?
I try to keep the vids under 30 minutes, if possible. It seems like a happy medium between too short and overlong. I do make exceptions for first and last episodes of a series. I guess that was a roundabout way of saying "no, not really, but thanks for asking." :P
30 years before pickle Rick.
as for the room removed for legal reasons: the dinosaur in the shirt is Earl from the "Dinosaurs" sitcom which ran in the early 90s. its as odd as the premise sounds. Droids is a word copyrighted by Lucasfilm (maybe Disney by now). and the red/white checkerboard pattern on the slime chow bags is/was the dog food Purina's copyrighted logo. probably why those 3 were taken out of the games
You're wrong on the droids one. The copyright in question was from the "Toys 'R Us" store chain which was still quite big at the time.
RIP original narrator guy
you could take over in the new installment...if they ever make it
They are indeed making it, and it will happen. :) But I could never replace the magnificence of Gary Owens.
maybe the sequel policemen are cyborg's
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the sequel police could be cyborgs
Then why would they be carrying chewing gum? And bleed red?
Cyborgs can have blood and they can enjoy gum - although these mouths look fully robotic so I dunno. Apparently they can still forget time codes too, even with the "upgrades".
+Magus Marquillin I would imagine gum would cause all sorts of havoc if they "ingest" it and it gets stuck in their circuitry. But we're just speculating at this point. We'd need to get ol' Sludgy-boy to release his schematics.
Yes, try that this play through - don't even format the computer or you will lose them.