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Space Quest is a series of science fiction computer games that follow the
adventures of a hapless janitor named Roger Wilco, as he campaigns through the galaxy
for "truth, justice and really clean floors." Initially created for Sierra On-Line
by Mark Crowe and Scott Murphy (who called themselves the Two Guys from Andromeda),
the games parodied both science fiction properties such as Star Wars and Star Trek,
as well as pop-culture phenomena from McDonald's to Microsoft. The series featured
a silly sense of humor heavily reliant on puns and wacky storylines. Roger is a member
of the cleaning crew onboard the scientific spaceship "Arcada", which holds a powerful experimental device called the "Star Generator" (a thinly-veiled reference to the
Genesis Device from Star Trek II). Roger emerges from an on-duty nap in a broom closet
to find the ship has been taken over by the sinister Sariens. He must make his escape,
survive a crash-landing on the desert planet Kerona, and ultimately sneak aboard the
Sarien starship Deltaur to stop the vicious aliens from using the Star Generator
against Roger's home planet of Xenon. The game was programmed using Sierra's AGI
engine and featured a pseudo-3D environment, allowing the character to move in front
of and behind background objects. The original Space Quest game quickly became a
hit, selling in excess of 100,000 copies (sales are believed to be around 200,000 to
date, not including the many compilations it has been included in). It was remade
and re-released in 1991.
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