Space Quest III: The Pirates of Pestulon

Description

Narrowly escaping the events of Space Quest II: Vohaul's Revenge, Roger Wilco's escape pod floats through space. As just another metallic item of junk, it's soon picked up by an interstellar garbage hauler. Waking up in a pile of trash, quite familiar for this janitor-turned-hero, Roger Wilco must somehow escape. Once given access to the rest of the galaxy, he'll soon find himself having to avoid a collections cyborg for payments overdue, dealing with the corporate prison of software company Scummsoft, and having to digest the greasy food from the galaxy's finest hamburger joint. All this and he might be expected to get the high score playing Astro Chicken (tm) also!

Space Quest 3 is a graphical adventure. The mouse is functional for movement and inventory access, however the game primarily relies on a text parser for specific commands and manipulation of objects on screen. In addition to the regular game, there is also a simple non-scrolling Astro Chicken game that's playable, as well as a radar screen representation for ship-to-ship space combat.

Alternate Titles

• "SQ3" -- Common abbreviated / informal title
• "Space Quest III: Die Piraten von Pestulon" -- German Title
• "Space Quest 3" -- Short Title

Part of the Following Groups

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

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User Reviews

Not really the best of the series, but still pretty damn good!	DOS	Unicorn B. Lynx (63268)
Great game, but sadly falling short	DOS	Terry Callahan (42)
4 hours worth of - get this, FOUR HOURS worth of fun	DOS	Alex Man (32)
Key SQ entry, one of the very best in the series	DOS	Jayson Firestorm (150)
Representative of a lost era-one of the best	DOS	Stephen Atkinz (7)
Best Space Quest of the series! Roger Wilco at his best!	DOS	OlSkool_Gamer (101)
Perfect re-mix of a common solution.	DOS	Fred Brownson (5)
Excellent game!	DOS	J. David Taylor (30)
A beginning of a new era	DOS	Black Wolf (37232)
Not quite the classic it's remembered as	DOS	Colin Rowsell (45)

The Press Says

Just Adventure	DOS	2000	A-	91
CU Amiga	Amiga	Oct, 1989	87 out of 100	87
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Abandonia	DOS	Jun 07, 2004	4 out of 5	80
Adventure Classic Gaming	DOS	Jan 11, 1999	4 out of 5	80
Amiga Joker	Amiga	Dec, 1989	75 out of 100	75
Aventura y Cía	DOS	Aug 15, 2001		60

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Trivia

After winning the Astro Chicken, you are given a hidden message, written in the Galactic Alphabet. For those of you who can't be bothered to decode it, here's what the message says.

HELP US! WE ARE BEING HELD
CAPTIVE BY SCUMSOFT ON THE
SMALL MOON OF PESTULON. AN
INPENETRABLE FORCE FIELD
SURROUNDS THE MOON. IT MUST
FIRST BE DEACTIVATED. IT'S 
ORIGIN IS UNKNOWN TO US.
SCUMSOFT SECURITY IS ARMED
WITH JELLO PISTOLS. WE'RE 
COUNTING ON YOU WHOEVER YOU
ARE.

                           TWO GUYS IN TROUBLE

When you retrieve the decoder ring and use it to decode the message, one would think that the game would automatically decode it for you.