Space Quest IV: Roger Wilco and the Time Rippers

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

Part of the Following Groups

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

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User Reviews

Best SQ game, and I replay it almost yearly	DOS	Travis Owens (7)
Possibly Roger's most creative adventure.	DOS	WizardX (118)
Unconditionally the best Space Quest.	DOS	Unicorn B. Lynx (60371)
Space Quest gets a facelift	DOS	Black Wolf (37231)
A good, old-fashioned adventure	DOS	Mark Abrams (4)
Sequals never are better than the first..... WRONG	DOS	Shawn McDonie (20)

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Trivia

The Talkie version features the voice of Gary Owens from Laugh-in. He would also provide voice acting later in the series.