Following his humorous adventures in Space Quest III: The Pirates of Pestulon, Roger Wilco is relaxing at his favorite pub somewhere in time and space when heavily armed soldiers enter the room. Carrying a parting message from Roger's old nemesis, Sludge Vohaul, they plan to get rid of the janitorial hero, execution style. That is until a man with an over-sized hair dryer helps Roger escape through a time rip into the future.. Now Roger Wilco has woken up on his home planet, sometime in Space Quest XII. The series has gone to ruin without it's hero, Vohaul rules all.. Roger must quickly hotwire a time pod and undo Vohaul's plot. The most logical way to do this is to run amok through past, future and the end of the universe, having a few laughs along the way. If there's a few spare moments, he might swing by the galaxy's biggest mall, charm his ex-girlfriend whom he knows nothing about and provoke some brawly monochrome bikers living in the original graphics of Space Quest I.

Space Quest IV is the first in the Space Quest series to feature Sierra's SCI interface (better known as "VGA icons"). Sierra's standard icon set, used here, includes icons for Walking, Looking, Using/Pickup, Smelling, Tasting as well as inventory access. Roger Wilco is shown on the screen from the exterior in multiple viewpoints.

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Alternate Titles

"SQ4" -- Common abbreviated / informal title
"Space Quest IV: Roger Wilco und die Zeitspringer" -- German Title
"Space Quest IV: Roger Wilco e i Viaggiatori del Tempo" -- Italian Title
"Space Quest 4" -- Short title

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User Reviews

Best SQ game, and I replay it almost yearly	Travis Owens (7)
Possibly Roger's most creative adventure.	WizardX (118)	unrated
Unconditionally the best Space Quest.	Unicorn B. Lynx (65292)
Space Quest gets a facelift	Black Wolf (37235)	unrated
A good, old-fashioned adventure	Mark Abrams (4)	unrated
Sequals never are better than the first..... WRONG	Shawn McDonie (20)

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The Press Says

Abandonia	Nov 19, 2007	5 out of 5	100
Adventure Lantern	Apr, 2006	85 out of 100	85
Power Play	May, 1991	76 out of 100	76
PC Format (UK)	Dec, 1994	43 out of 100	43

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Trivia

The dialogue for the DOS and Amiga versions are identical, except for the part where one of the monochrome boys speak to you, where what he says will depend on the number of colors used in the game.

"Well, lookee here! If it ain't Mister Look-at-me-I'm-in-EGA"
"Whatsamatter, monochrome not good enough for you?"
"What's this, 16 colors all for one little bitmapped WIMP?! What a waste of EGA. Har, har!"
"Hey, fellas! I bet I can toss him all the way-out from the bottom of the stairs. Bet 'ya an ale."

VGA version:
"Well, lookee here! If it ain't Mister Look-at-me-I'm-in-VGA"
"Whatsamatter, monochrome not good enough for you?"
"What's this, 256 colors all for one little bitmapped WIMP?! What a waste of VGA. Har, har!"
"Hey, fellas! I bet I can toss him all the way-out from the bottom of the stairs. Bet 'ya an ale."

Amiga:
"Well, lookee here! If it ain't Mister Look-at-me-I'm-in-32-Colors"
"Whatsamatter, monochrome not good enough for you?"
"What's this, 32 colors all for one little bitmapped WIMP?! What a waste of color. Har, har!"
"Hey, fellas! I bet I can toss him all the way-out from the bottom of the stairs. Bet 'ya an ale."