Description
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.
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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Trivia
At the Big and Tall store at the Galaxy Galleria, you can occasionally spot a guy rummaging around, occasionally pulling out a pair of red shorts. This is Bob Andrews, former Sierra OnLine programmer.
The games at the software store are all parodies of other games. Here's a list of the parodied games:
"Boom" by Morrie Brianarty is a parody of "Loom" by Brian Moriarty.
"It came for Dessert" is a parody of "It came from the Desert".
"Defender of the Crown Rib Roast" is a parody of "Defender of the Crown".
"Where in the World is Hymie Lipshitz (and who really cares)" is of course a parody on "Where in the World is Carmen Santiego".
"Sim Sim" from MaxThis is a parody on the Sim games from Maxis.
"Cluck Egger" lets you design a chicken and fly it over barnyard scenery. This is a parody on the flight simulator "Chuck Yeager".
Leisure Suit Larry is mentioned on the recording in Xenon's sewer control room.
When you're in the pterodactyl's nest on Estros, you can see something streak across the sky. This is in fact King Graham being carried by a condor (from King's Quest 1).
Luke Skywalker's little red speeder is disguised as the crashed hovercraft on the Xenon streets.
The Quest for Glory theme music is occasionally played in the Software Store at the Galaxy Galleria, made out to sound like a PC internal speaker.
Cedric, the owl from King's Quest 5 has an appearance in the Ms. Astro Chicken game at the Galaxy Galleria's Arcade.
The trash can in the Galleria's Arcade is one of the agents from "Get Smart". Try talking to it, you'll see what I mean!
During your visit to Ulence Flats, the Blues Brothers appear on stage at the bar, since they also appear in SQ1.
There's a secret time code in the game that takes you to Ortega (SQ3). It's simple: type in the top row left to right, then type in the leftmost symbol in the second row.
The robots in the SuperComputer are the Imperial ProBots from the Star Wars movies.
In the Control room of the SuperComputer, two programs immediately come to mind: King's Quest and Leisure Suit Larry.
