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Space Quest V: The Next Mutation

Description

After travelling back and forth through time on Space Quest 4, Roger Wilco is back in the Starfleet Acadamy, serving as both a cadet and a janitor (so what else is new?). Cheating his way through the Starfleet Aptitude Test, Roger is finally given the rank of captain, his own ship (a garbage scow) and a mission: to explore strange new worlds (which no man in his right mind would explore), to seek out new life and new civilizations (that grew out of the massive amounts of trash Roger will collect on his way), to boldy go where no man has gone before (fortunately for him)!

Step by step Roger will have to unveil a galaxy-wide biohazardous material dumping scheme, solve the mystery of the disappearance of a fellow Starfleet captain and his ship, and an agent of an old nemesis.

Alternate Titles

• "SQ5" -- Common abbreviated / informal title
• "Space Quest 5: La Siguiente Mutación" -- Spanish Title
• "Space Quest 5: La Mutation Suivante" -- French Title
• "Space Quest 5: Die nächste Mutation" -- German Title

Part of the Following Groups

• Game Engine: Sierra's Creative Interpreter (SCI)
• Space Quest series

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User Reviews

Why wasn't this game released on CD-ROM?	Black Wolf (36083)	unrated
Quite a fun game!	JazzOleg (53181)
Without a doubt, the best Space Quest	Benjamin Vigeant (8)	unrated
Had its moments, but the series starts its decline with this game.	Dave Schenet (130)	unrated
The weakest Space Quest tries to be an all-out Trek spoof.	WizardX (118)	unrated
Best quest I've every played.	Tomer Gabel (4491)
too short and too few puzzles.. finished it in probably two hours	bertrandom (3)	unrated
The Shine begins to tarnish	Shawn McDonie (20)

The Press Says

Just Adventure	2000	A	100
Abandonia	Nov 19, 2007	5 out of 5	100
Pelit	Mar, 1993	89 out of 100	89
PC Player (Germany)	Apr, 1993	77 out of 100	77
Power Play	Apr, 1993	77 out of 100	77
Adventure Classic Gaming	Aug 21, 1998	3 out of 5	60

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Trivia

This was the first Space Quest not created by both of the Two Guys From Andromeda (Scott Murphy and Mark Crowe). After Space Quest IV, the two guys split up as they need a change of climate and didn't want to be remembered solely for their Space Quest games. Mark Crowe would later go on to design Space Quest V solo.

Unlike the other five Space Quests, this one was in fact programmed by Dynamix (since Mark Crowe, the guy formerly from Andromeda, was working there at the time). The Dynamix logo appears at least twice throughout the game, and in one scene a couple of the motion capture aliens are wearing spare costumes taken from the set of Betrayal at Krondor.