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SPACE QUEST Part 1 ARCADA TO CRASHDOWN Well now you're in for it. Your latest siesta in the Arcada's janitorial closet has been rudely interrupted by a Sarien invasion. Alarm bells are sounding, emergency lights are flashing and the blasted bodies of your shipmates are lying all over the place. How are you going to avoid joining them and survive this adventure? First of all, if we're going to get you out of this in one piece, we need to establish a few conventions. In SPACE QUEST, as in all of Sierra's animated adventures, you move from location to location and manipulate objects by moving your on-screen character with either a joystick or the cursor control keys on your keyboard. For SPACE QUEST, I strongly recommend using a joystick. There are a couple of arcade sequences in the game, at least one of which is made much easier by using a joystick. To move from location to location you move your character offscreen in the desired direction. For purposes of this walkthru, "north" means to move your character offscreen toward the top or back of the screen, "south" means to move toward the bottom or foreground, "east" means to move offscreen to the right, and "west" means to move to the left. Okay, how are you going to avoid the Sarien troops that seem to be everywhere and shoot first and ask questions later? Well, whenever you hear footsteps, find somewhere to hide -- pronto! Elevators work very well for this purpose. And take advantage of the improved save and restore features of this game; they can make death a very temporary condition. Now the coast seems to be clear for the moment and you're standing in the corridor in front of the janitor's closet. Go west through the door into the Data Archive. A quick look around reveals a wall full of data cartridges and a computer console. Examining the computer console shows that it consists of a screen, a keyboard, a cartridge slot, and a cartridge retrieval unit. The screen is asking you to type in the title of a cartridge, but you can't punch up the catalogue because you lack the proper security clearance. Just as you're beginning to despair over this situation, a man that you recognize as a lab scientist stumbles into the room and collapses on the floor. He's obviously fatally wounded, but you try to help him as best you can. His strength fading fast, the scientist tells you that the Sariens are after the Star Generator and that you'd better get out fast if you want to save yourself. With his dying breath, he looks at the wall full of data cartridges and utters "astral body." There's no time for mourning now. Taking the hint, you walk over to the keyboard and type in "astral body." Sure enough the retrieval unit climbs the shelves and returns with a cartridge. Take the cartridge from the unit, but don't try to read it here! Any attempt to read the cartridge at this location will bring the game to a very abrupt end. Better hold on to the cartridge until you can find a safer terminal. It's time to move on, so go west into the corridor and west again to the far wall of the hallway. Here is yet another fallen shipmate. Well, maybe the poor guy has something useful that he won't be needing anymore. Indeed he does, for a quick search of his body uncovers a keycard; just the thing for opening doors to secured areas of the ship. Pocket the keycard and go east and take the elevator down one level. Walk north through the blasted-out door into the Star Generator lab. Here your worst fears are realized. The Star Generator is gone! The Sariens have already removed it from the ship. What's more, a look at the computer screen at the north end of the room shows that the automatic detonators have been set, and there's just minutes to go until the Arcada blows itself up. No wonder that dying scientist told you to get out fast! There's no time to lose, so exit the room to the south, go east and take the elevator down to the lower level of the Arcada. Walk east into the central control area of the ship. A look through the window reveals the empty docking bay. Just beneath the window is a control panel with two buttons on it. Press the button marked "open bay door" and watch the docking bay doors slide open. Now walk east to the elevator at the far end of this level. Hmm, this elevator doesn't open automatically like all the others on the Arcada. Aha! There's a security panel next to the elevator with a slot for a keycard. Now the elevator opens obediently. So ride it down to the flight prep room on the lowest level of the ship. The first thing you notice in the flight prep room is a closet with a button for each of its two doors. Push both buttons and take the gadget from the closet on the left and the flight suit from the closet on the right. A quick look at the gadget reveals that it's a dialect translator. Might come in handy later. Now, however, we need to find a way out of here. It looks like there's a control panel in the front of the room, so walk around the barrier and have a look at it. Thankfully, there's a button on the panel marked "airlock." Press it and the door on the west side of the room slides open. Exit the room through the open airlock and walk out into the docking bay. You notice that the bay is empty and that there's a large hole in the middle of the floor. However, there is also a control console standing next to the airlock. Amid all the unfamiliar controls on the console is a button marked "platform." Press the button and an escape pod rises from the hole in the floor! Walk around the pod to the open door on its left side and get in. You're almost out of here! Once seated in the pod, the first thing to do is close the door. Now take a look around the pod. You see seat belts and a dark console. Buckle up the seat belt then have a look at the console. Push the button marked "power" and the console springs to life. The screen tells you to pull the throttle to initiate the launch sequence. So give it a tug and you're off! Whew! You've made it safely off the Arcada, but now your pod is drifting helplessly in space. What to do? (For a laugh you can press the button marked "don't touch;" just make sure you save the game first!) Look at the panel again. There's a button there labeled "autonav." Try pushing it. That did it! The pod's navigation system is locked onto the planet Kerona, and the automatic landing sequence has started. There's nothing to do now but sit back and enjoy the ride. Congratulations! You've crash-landed on a desolate, desert planet. Aren't you glad? SPACE QUEST Part 2 Okay, so here you are sitting in a wrecked escape pod in the middle of a burning desert. Well, at least you're still in one piece. And a look around the pod reveals that a survival kit has broken loose from somewhere. That could sure come in handy, so take the kit and have a look inside. You find a handy-dandy jack-knife and a can of dehydrated (?) water. Dehydrated water is a strange concept, to say the least, so take a close look at the can. The label says that you can get a drink of water any time you need it by simply putting the nozzle in your mouth and drinking. It also says that the can is highly pressurized and that puncturing it can have catastrophic consequences. Those sound like two pieces of information to remember. Now you're as ready as you'll ever be to leave the pod, so go ahead and get out. Before you leave the area, however, walk around to the front of the pod and have a look at it. You never know when you'll need a piece of reflective glass, so take it. If you try going in any other direction, you'll soon discover that the only directions that you can go without getting eaten or flattened by a meteor are east and southeast. So go southeast to the area described as the "southwest edge of a mesa." Exit the screen at the southeast corner. Take a look around and note the natural land bridge to the north. Again, exit the screen at the southeast corner. Notice the ramp on the west side of the screen. Walk up it and follow it until you exit the screen to the north. Then follow the trail around to the west. About now the spider droid will appear. Don't worry, this is one nasty you can dispatch with a bang! Walk across the bridge to the large boulder. Position yourself behind the boulder and type in "push boulder" without hitting <Return> or <Enter>. This is a good place to save the game! Wait until the spider droid is directly under the boulder (it's the spot exactly between the two green patches on the ground). Now hit <Return> or <Enter>. Kaboom! Wasn't that fun? (Read on for an alternate way to kill the spider droid, but for less points.) Let's see what else this mesa has to offer. Exit the screen to the west and follow the trail around several screens until you arrive at the broken arch at the mesa's far eastern edge. What's this all about? Well step between the two columns of the arch and...Whoa! Talk about the first step being a doozie! Nothing to do now but ride this elevator straight to the bottom. Once you arrive at the bottom of the shaft and recover your stomach, step off the platform and look around. That rock might prove useful, so take it. Follow the cavern to the west. That grate looks and smells dangerous. Better edge around the back of it. Aieee! It's a good thing you didn't step on top of that grate! Looks like you've come to the end of the trail, doesn't it? But if you take a careful look around, you'll notice that the rock will just cover the hole on top of that steam vent. So put the rock there and shades of "open sesame!" Exit the screen to the northwest. The pool room is pretty, but there's not much you can do in here, so walk around the rocks and again exit the screen to the northwest. Hey! Those light beams could just make you go all to pieces! So hold that piece of reflective glass in the beams and put the heat on them. Now walk up the ramp and exit the screen to the east. Save the game! Those aren't water drops dripping from the ceiling; they're deadly corrosive acid. One false step here and you're fried. Time your walk between the drops carefully and exit the screen to the east. Now take a look at the gadget that you took from the closet bactball with human beings taking the part of the ball. But a piece of Orat's hide is just what this Alien is telling you that you'll have to bring him if you want his help in getting off this dustbin of a planet. Yours is not to reason, so once you're transported back to the surface, follow the mesa trail back across the bridge and down the ramp. Exit the screen to the north. Orat's cave is in the cliff face on the east side of the screen. Steady your nerves (and save the game) before you go in. Okay, now Orat is coming straight for you, and it's a sure bet that the only dinner invitation you'll get from him will feature you as the main course. Instead of panicking, calmly look at Orat's razor sharp teeth and remember what you read about the water can and what would happen if it were punctured. So what have you got to lose except your life? Throw the water at Orat! Kaboom! (again). Isn't it nice the way your enemies keep blowing up real good? Fortunately, there's a little piece of Orat still intact over in the eastern part of the cave. Control your stomach and take the Orat part. (NOTE: An alternate way to kill Orat involves *not* killing the spider droid with the boulder. Instead, carefully lead the droid (it will start following you once you get close to it) into Orat's cave and step aside. Orat will rush straight into the droid and they will both blow up real good at the same time. However, you do not get as many points for blowing themot you when you try to use it. Insert the cartridge in the slot and read the story of the star generator. Make a note of the destruct code sequence number and be sure to take the cartridge with you when you're done reading it. Now hop on the skimmer, turn the key, and ride off. Now you have to play the arcade game of dodge the boulders. This is where a joystick comes in handy. It's also a good idea to save the game here, in case you're as big a klutz as I am. Before too long you'll arrive in the thrilling metropolis of Ulence Flats. SPACE QUEST Part 3 You've successfully dodged all of the boulders and you're now sitting in the heart of the shimmering metropolis of Ulence Flats. Get off the skimmer and have a leisurely look around the immediate vicinity. In a short time one of the locals will approach you and offer to buy your skimmer for 30 buckazoids. You can do better than that, even if the skimmer is somewhat beat up, so refuse this initial offer. The fellow will walk away angry, but don't worry; he really wants that skimmer and he'll be back. Just wait around a while and take in the scenery. Sure enough, after a few minutes have passed, your "customer" approaches you again. This time he offers to throw in a jetpack with the 30 buckazoids. That's a much more reasonable offer. So say yes. Now that you have some cash, it's time to visit that bar whose flashing sign has been tempting you ever since you arrived in this berg. Upon entering the bar, you notice a band (isn't there something familiar about those guys?), a slot machine off to one side that seems to have rather dire consequences for losers, and, thankfully, an empty seat at the end of the bar. Slide onto the stool and order a brew. It might not be the best suds you've ever had, but in your condition you're not complaining. So drink up. In fact, you'd better drink three. As you start to down the third (and are beginning to develop a distinctly better outlook toward this little planet), you overhear a conversation among your fellow drinkers. Make a careful note of the space sector that is mentioned. Feeling fortified by the Kerona beer in your belly, you decide to tackle that slot machine. As you've doubtless noticed, you can lose *everything* at this game, including your life! Nevertheless, you're going to have to win $250 from this one-armed bandit if you want to get off this planet. The way to win at this game with a minimum of frustration is to save your game after every significant increase in your winnings. That way you can restore to a higher amount if you start to lose too much, and it will minimize the effects of getting yourself killed. Once you have your $250, you can walk away from the machine a happy winner (at that point the slot machine will inform you that there has been a circuit failure). Now it's time to see if you can buy yourself some transportation off of this planet. Leave the bar and walk west. You'll find yourself in Tiny's Used Spaceship Lot. Tiny is like all used spaceship salesmen, you can't trust him as far as you can throw him. He will try to sell you on the two little ships in the foreground. Provided you save your game first, you can go ahead and buy them for a laugh; however, a much more substantial looking ship is visible to the north. So exit the screen in that direction. Don't worry, Tiny will follow you. Now this is a ship! In fact, you wonder how a lowlife like Tiny got his hands on it. Well that's not your concern. Go ahead and pay Tiny his asking price for this slick space cruiser. As your fork over your hard-won money, Tiny informs you that you'll need a droid to pilot this baby. No problem. Walk east and then east again. You'll find yourself conveniently in front of Droids-R-Us. Go inside. The droid you want is upstairs on the right. He's the one that the proprietor describes as a pilot. Pay the owner for the droid (you can present your coupon for a discount) and return to your ship (your faithful droid will follow you). Now you're almost off this miserable asteroid! Just climb up the ladder and get in. Your droid will move to his position under the ship. Look at the ship. There's a button on the panel marked "Load." Press it and your droid will automatically be lifted into the ship. When your droid asks, type in the sector that you overheard in the bar. Off you go into the purple yonder in your wonderful new ship! Sit back and enjoy the ride. In fact, you better enjoy it as much as you can. Because just beginning to fill your vision screen is the profile of the flagship of the Sarien fleet: the dreaded Deltaur itself! SPACE QUEST PART 4 Your pilot droid has parked you a safe distance from the menacing Deltaur and he's not going to take the ship any closer. So it's time for some EVA action. Put on the jetpack that you acquired in Ulence Flats and exit the ship. Take a look around and steer yourself over to the door. Look at the door, then turn the handle. Move into the airlock. Once in the airlock, wait for the droid to appear and then move by him into the ship. In the "empty" room, notice that there is a trunk sitting in the middle of the room and that there is a vent high up on the west wall. Move to the right of the trunk and type "push trunk." Once the trunk is against the wall, open the trunk and put your jetpack inside it. Then close the trunk and stand on top of it. Open the vent with the jack-knife and enter. Once inside the airshaft, climb up the ladder to the next cross-shaft (climbing down will take you the same place, but it takes longer) then crawl east. Kick open the vent, then exit the screen to the east. NOTE: You can get yourself to the same location simply by getting inside the trunk and hiding inside of it until the Sariens move you. This will net you the same amount of points as the method described above, but it's not as much fun. Now you're in the laundry room and it's time to come clean. Walk over to the washing machine, open the door and get in the machine. When the Sarien enters the room, remain calm and ride out the rinse cycle. Open the door and emerge from the machine cleverly disguised as a Sarien, complete with helmet! Now you can move around the ship without attracting attention. Before you go, however, look in your uniform pocket and notice that you have a Sarien I.D. card. Exit the laundry room to the east. Talk to the first Sarien you see as this will get you an extra point. The Sarien guard outside the Empty Room (down one level) will ask you if you've played Kings Quest III! Tell him yes for yet another point. Walk over to the two elevators at the rear of the corridor. The elevator on the right is temporarily out of order, but don't worry about it. It will work when you need it. For now enter the elevator on the left and ride it upstairs. Exit the elevator and walk east. Here it is, the Star Generator! Note that it's protected by a guard and a force field, and that you can't get close enough to get a good look at its control panel. Exit the room to the west and then go west again. Take the elevator up. Go east and then east again. Now you're on an elevated walkway directly above the Star Generator. Go east and enter the ship's armory. Once in the armory, look at the counter and notice that there are two gas grenades sitting in the corner. Walk up to the counter and show your i.d. card to the droid. When he leaves to get your weapon, move smartly around the counter and take one of the grenades. When the droid returns, take your pulseray and exit to the west. Back on the elevated walkway, stand directly over the Star Generator guard and throw the grenade. After the guard collapses, go back into the armory and get the second grenade for an extra point (the droid will attempt to get you another weapon and then return empty-handed, noting that you already have one). Go west from the elevated walkway and then west again. At this point you will stumble and lose your helmet. No, there's no way you can avoid it. The Sariens will shoot you on sight now, so be ready to fire your pulseray instantly upon entering each new screen and don't let a guard droid touch you! It will also help to save the game frequently from now on. You've got no time to waste now, so head straight back to the Star Generator. Search the dead guard's body. Take the remote control and press the on/off button. Walk up the stairs leading to the Star Generator and look at the control panel. Punch in the destruct code that you learned from the data cartridge (in case you forgot, it's 6858) and then punch the "enter" key (the one on the control pad, not your computer!). Looks like things are really starting to get hot around here, so don't stand around. Exit to the west and take the first elevator down. The elevator on the right is now back in service so take it! When you get off the elevator move quickly to the waiting space ship and get in. Look at the ship. Press the launch button. Now sit back and enjoy the rest of the show because you're a hero! Wonder how much a golden mop is worth? NOTE: I played the game through a few times using all of the moves described above. Each time I netted a varying amount of points that was slightly less than the game's stated maximum of 202, depending on how many Sariens I shot with the pulseray. I never discovered a use for the plant that can be found growingon Kerona. SPACE QUEST is published by Sierra On-Line, Inc. This walkthru is copyright (c) 1986 by Jason Levine. All rights reserved.