Space Quest review

***fov*** · 01-04-2008, 02:21 PM

Great review! I didn't know the story behind how Mark Crowe and Scott Murphy pitched the game, so it was neat to have that bit of history tucked in.

Quote:

At some point in SQ1, Roger must play a slot machine. In the VGA version, the slot machine only looks like a minigame, and it’s actually a puzzle to be solved and moved past. In the EGA version, however, it’s every bit a minigame, and a rather tedious one at that. The conceit of the slot machine is that it has very good odds, but once in a while it just up and kills you, so Save/Restore tactics, while normally discouraged by Sierra minigames, are literally the only way to proceed in this case.

Apparently if you

Spoiler:
use the magnet on the slot machine

it's much easier to win. I didn't know about this when I played it.

I look forward to reading reviews of the rest of the series (and hope they won't take as long as it's taken me to work through the King's Quest series!)

ozzie · 01-08-2008, 12:58 PM

Unrelated to Space Quest: Don't work the comments for you too or is there another reason why you post here?

I posted a comment to the Prodigal review yesterday but it still didn't get approved.
I get a bit suspicious. I don't hope that my comment got lost again.
That would be the last time I used this feature.

***fov*** · 01-08-2008, 01:50 PM

I posted it here because that's where it's where I'm used to posting feedback about reviews, but you're right, I probably should have used the comments.

I don't see your comment in the moderation queue. This might be something that needs looking into.

01-08-2008, 12:58 PM	#2
ozzie Senior Member Last Online: 05-19-2012 09:36 AM Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Germany Posts: 726	Unrelated to Space Quest: Don't work the comments for you too or is there another reason why you post here? I posted a comment to the Prodigal review yesterday but it still didn't get approved. I get a bit suspicious. I don't hope that my comment got lost again. That would be the last time I used this feature.

01-08-2008, 01:50 PM	#3
*fov* Rattenmonster Last Online: 03-19-2013 04:05 PM Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: San Francisco Posts: 10,404	I posted it here because that's where it's where I'm used to posting feedback about reviews, but you're right, I probably should have used the comments. I don't see your comment in the moderation queue. This might be something that needs looking into.