Space Quest IV: Roger Wilco and the Time Rippers

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The sewer.

Out of the sewer.

The bad guy's ship.

Flying off in the sunset.

The home of the Xenon master computer, now controlled by Vohual.

The landing bay.

Roger sneaks into a time pod.

The dumb copy protection.

Inside the time pod.

The planet of Estros.

Getting carried off!

Into the eagles nest.

Captured and on a sub.

Vohual captures your son!

The shopping mall of the future.

Roger shops for some new clothes.

Mrs. Astro Chicken!

Playing Mrs. Astro Chicken.

Working at monolith burgers.

Radio Shock.

The computer software store.

The slop... er... bargain bin.

It's Sim Sim!

It Came for Dessert!

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Space Quest IV: Roger Wilco and the Time Rippers

Space Quest 4+5+6

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phill fudge, mentioned in the adverts at the software store, is a paroty of bill budge, programmer of pinball construction set. some of the adverts mention that a "Ronald mt-32 is required". this is a reference to the roland mt-32 sound card.
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It is somewhat remarkable that this is the only game in the series in which there is neither access to a janitorial closet, nor a single conventional cleaning implement among the inventory items. Clearly, Mark and Scott intended Roger Wilco's adventures to continue without any occupational restrictions on the character.
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Mark Crowe, one of the Space Quest series original designers, has stated that Space Quest IV is the game in the series that he considers his 'tour-de-force'. He worked on Space Quests 1-5.
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Certain sections of the game use an event timer that relies on your system clock. (even though the game speed itself adjusts according to the processor) This makes it virtually impossible to even begin the game on a modern machine - the mutant in the first section appears every few seconds, killing you instantly.
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If you have a start-of-the-art computer, you'll notice a few time-related issues while playing SQ4, most notably, the sentry droid that searches for you on Space Quest XII and returns to the same area every five seconds, making it impossible to do tasks on that screen. Fortunately, there is a way to bypass the droid problem. Just go to a screen where you can hide behind structures and wait there until the droid comes. When it fails to look for you, it will leave the screen. During this time, set the game speed to maximum, quickly do the tasks that you need to do, and continue hiding again before he comes back. Repeat the same process until you've completed all the tasks that you need to do on the screen.
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There's a secret code in the Time Pod that will send you back to Space Quest 3. (the top row of characters plus the first from the next line) Save before leaving your pod. There are also persistant rumors that there's a code for SQ2, but it's never been found.
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From this entry on in the series, 'Roger Wilco' was included in the title of each game (actually in a bigger font than the actual 'Space Quest' bit), as by this time the character had grown and become as well-identified as the actual 'Space Quest' title by gamers (rather like Lara Croft in the Tomb Raider series).
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Space Quest 4 was available in four different packages: a 16 color version (supporting EGA, MCGA, VGA, Tandy/PCjr) with either 3.5" DD or 5.25" HD disks, and a 256 color version (supporting MCGA, VGA) with either 3.5" HD disks or 5.25" HD disks.
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As with most adventure games of its time, this one used more floppies than ever. No wonder the authors thought of this joke: You could go inside the "Radio Shock" store and see in the bargain bin a copy of "King's Quest 48 , The quest for disk space" (or whatever sequel number it was).
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If you smell the back of Droids-B-Us at Ulence Flats, the game says: "Smells like another lawsuit coming back to haunt the Two Guys from Andromeda". The reason?? Scott Murphy and Mark Crowe got sued by Toys-R-Us for putting Droids-B-Us in SQ1.

When you first visit the Software Store at the Galaxy Galleria, the bouncer will tell you that the Two Geeks From Andromeda are in there, signing copies of their latest release.
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Aside from the narrator Gary Owens, all voices in the game are done by Sierra employees. Guy from Andromeda Scott Murphy even does the voice of Sludge Vohaul.
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After complaints from a certain widespread electronics chain, the name of the store "Radio Shock" in the Galaxy Galleria was changed to "Htz So Good" for the CD-ROM version. (which is fine, since that's funnier)
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At some point near the end of the game, you are presented with a computer that has a GUI with a few icons and a toilet and you must flush a malicious program (remember - we're in 1990 where GUIs on PCs were not that common yet). There was an icon labeled SQ4: if you dragged it in the toilet, the game ended without warning and dropped you abruptly to the DOS prompt.
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