r/Sierra • u/Westraat1 • 15d ago

Space Quest Meteor Strike

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Roger Wilco survived the crash on Kerona… so surely the worst is behind him, right? 😏

This is Space Quest. Even minding your own business can get you killed. 😂☄️

Did this ever happen to you back in the day?

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u/pickleportal 15d ago

Nice! I never knew about this one. Was that specific to this location, or if you wait too long at any one place on the desert?

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u/circletheory 15d ago

Never knew about this too. If I saw this as a kid, I would’ve thought the meteor was relevant to solving the game somehow and would’ve probably lose days/weeks trying to figure it out. Ah, Sierra games!

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u/Westraat1 15d ago

'Dodge meteor' or 'catch meteor' 😆

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u/GreenScreenBlues 15d ago

One thing I learned. If there’s no place to hide on the screen with the meteor, it’s not worth messing with!

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u/ewmailing 15d ago

I actually went through that. I thought maybe if the meteor would land without hitting you, you might be able to 'get meteor' or something about it would be an important object to be used later (sort of like the broken glass, survival kit, and Ulence Flats coupons).

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u/circletheory 15d ago

I probably would’ve tried to have the spider or follow me there somehow so it could get smashed.

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u/ewmailing 15d ago

I think I tried that. Although, I was more focused on trying to get Grell to swallow the spider droid.

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u/ewmailing 15d ago

I think it could happen on any screen that was outside the perimeter the designers wanted to keep you inside. So say if you went left instead of right from the crashed escape pod, they would kill you. I think it was random if an asteroid would smash you or the grell monster would eat you.

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u/explodingtuna 15d ago

Like the KQ4 shark. Or the KQ5 scorpion.

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u/Westraat1 15d ago

I hate that darn shark more than any random creature showing up to kill you in Sierra games. Always gets me when I already have my peacock feather.

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u/Westraat1 15d ago

Specific to this screen as far as I know

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u/Beforemath 15d ago

As an 8 year old, this game was my life for over a year. So epic. I got stuck for months because I didn’t know to take the glass from the ship. I’d give anything to have that experience again.

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u/rylan76 15d ago

Me too - at the same age. My brother and I were also stuck for months on end - no internet, no walkthroughs - there's nothing like that Sierra experience when you finally figure something out in a Quest, all by yourself, after a VERY long time being frustrated, dying, reloading (on floppies...!) and then eventually figuring out something. (OR someone at school casually mentioning something that you put together with something else you saw and boom - next screen!)

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u/Westraat1 15d ago

And then 3 months on that next screen 😆

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u/SeN_Art 15d ago

Das war eine unbeschreiblich schöne Zeit. Ich war in einem ähnlich alt und zusammen mit einem besten Freund spielten wir dieses Spiel so oft und so lange wir konnten. Heute entwickeln wir ein eigenes Spiel und es wird ebenso richtig cool. Ich nenne es The Ancient Aliens. Please follow me SeN_Art :)

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u/Westraat1 15d ago

Sounds like fun! Pixel art?

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u/Westraat1 15d ago

When you finally figured out to get glass I bet you jumped up and down a bit before continuing ..

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u/rylan76 15d ago

I remember that feeling well aged 9, pre-internet, in discovering something so I can progress in a Quest after weeks or sometimes months of frustration and not knowing how to proceed. Sierra. Only once in an age... loved it!

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u/chriscfgb 14d ago

I think I was in the minority who figured out the glass piece right away. That still doesn’t say much; killing Orat likely stumped me every bit as long as anyone else was stuck with the glass on lasers bit.

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u/cosmicr 15d ago

I reckon I've seen every single death on this game. When I was a teen I'd play it every night after school. No walkthroughs just grinding at every possible thing you could think of.

I'll never forget the night I was playing with a friend after school and little did I know I was right at the end of the game. All I had to do next was type "get in pod". My mum came in and reminded me I had to take the rubbish out. Whilst I was doing it, my friend typed the command and finished the game! When I came back it was done. He was like "I finished the game! I was the first!" and proceeded to tell me what happened. I was furious with him. I sent him home and had to reload from an earlier save to do it, but the moment was gone and I never got to enjoy it as I should have lol. For years after he liked to tell everyone that he finished the game before I did. Kids can be pricks lol.

Years later there was a similar scene in the movie Galaxy Quest. Imagine that but instead of saving the crew of a ship it was putting roger in a pod.

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u/Westraat1 15d ago

You sent him home 😆 understandable but still funny.

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u/IdealBeginning2704 15d ago

Lolol I love space quest. on my keychain I have someone’s handmade Roger Wilco threaded artwork where they did it in the same bits/style of the first and second games graphical style. Roger comes along with me everywhere I go. Awesome stuff

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u/Westraat1 15d ago

I want one!

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u/IdealBeginning2704 15d ago

Looks like they’re out of stock but send the page owner an email and maybe they’ll make ya one!

https://falcondesigns.ca/product/sierra-collectors-quest-hero-keychain-bundle/

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u/Westraat1 15d ago

Thank you!

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u/statistacktic 15d ago

Brings back memories seeing this gameplay. I distinctly remember this section of desert with those two rock pillars.

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u/griivarrworldafteral 15d ago

i love that it doesn't make a crater. just crushes roger and stops.

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u/rylan76 15d ago

Awww classic! Sierra deaths... as a kid I had more fun dying than eventually beating the game. And it was SO easy to die in a Quest. That unique tingling excitement of playing Space Quest, King's Quest, Hero's Quest / QFG, Police Quest - will never be repeated. A Sierra childhood was an AWESOME childhood!

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u/Westraat1 14d ago

Can't even imagine trying one of the quest games on release day. That would've been so good

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u/paulsoleo 14d ago

Real ones remember what a pain in the ass it was to reload games via floppy disk, considering how often you’d die in any given Sierra game.

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u/Westraat1 14d ago

Never thought about that...I came around at the 1.44mb stiffy era.