@@owengrant9066 I wish we could get more games like Day of the Tentacle which had really excellent puzzles, but plenty of point and click games coming out nowadays are better than space quest 1. Don't see what's wrong with complaining about a bad parser, a crap arcade sequence, required save scumming, a "puzzle" that requires you to stand in a specific spot and look at the ship in order to know that a required item exists, etc. I guess you could consider it part of the fun to hunt for required items and figure out what arcane commands are needed and stuff like that. There is something charmingly antagonistic about the game design, but it doesn't seem like a more thoughtful or intelligent game. It just hates you.
Would love to see your take on the Quest For Glory series next. QFG1 is my childhood and has a "modernized" version (no text entries) if you want to take a break from trying to find the correct words in a lexicon. (Although by the time QFG started, the lexicon was so improved that speedrunners are breaking the game by typing only a few letters per prompt in the original text based version)
@@Volvary Quest for Glory is definitely on the cards with how much it's been requested, though I'd like to keep these Sierra games in a somewhat chronological manner, so I need to escape the AGI period first...
The adhd needing another gaming retrospective hits too hard, i just almost finished dungeon chill's yesterday. I use them as bg noise for crocheting haha
I already knew immediately the beam puzzle would get to you. Both Guys from Andromeda acknowledge it as one of the most frustrating puzzles in the game, because the solution isn't communicated to you in any way.
I have to appreciate how you gradually started thinking the way the game wanted you to, and began catching more traps and hidden interactions before they could screw you over. It's one of those skills no one should ever have to learn.
Count me in as looking forward to King's Quest III. On one hand, the game makes a lot of steps forward for the series. It has a lot more story, its more focused, it doesn't just dump you in a field and ask you to solve random puzzles. Its the first game in the series that really feels like the King's Quest that comes later. On the other hand, boy does this game make some choices. Some absolutely wild choices.
But that mountain path… soooo many deaths. And the wizard annihilating you if you didn’t get your tasks done in time… or stepped in the wrong room. Still. Fantastic game!
Don't stop uploading Pak, I love your content. From your hits like Iron Lung, the Doom mod and Signalis, to your game demo recommendations. I discovered some real gems because of those. Keep it up!
It seems like these don't get the views they deserve, but I'm really glad you make them. No other RUclipsr does trepidation, bewilderment, and frustration as well as you do, and these games are perfect for that haha, keep it up! I never played these but always wanted to, so it's nice watching you play, especially when you don't know what you're doing. It feels like getting the full experience that way.
YAY SOMETHING I CAN WATCH OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND OVER! Thank you :D
The remake of the game that Sierra put out about 5 years later using their more advanced SCI game engine took the opportunity to give the player ways to bypass or at least better understand the more obscure puzzles of the original. The crashed spaceship actually has the survival kit and pieces of broken glass in the sand outside, with the glasa helpfully glittering in the sun to make it super obvious. It's made easier to force the spider droid to encounter Orat (the original game requires a very specific set of events to happen to make sure Orat is triggered inside the cave at the same time the spider is chasing you; the remake just spawns Orat in the cave all the time). The arcade Skimmer sequence can be skipped, as can the fruit machine in the Bar (through use of a magnet you can find back at the start of the game). While these quality of life changes don't really change the overall game, they do make some of it's more 'ambiguous' puzzles easier to figure out. It's still possible to go into the caverns without picking up the glass shard in this remake, but if you don't try to pick up the now super obvious glass pieces that literally sparkle for you, then it's more the player's own fault than in the original. 🤣
The magnet would have helped reduce the gambling. It was fun watching, well listening, to an adult man grumble at a game I beat as a ten year old without any sort of help. King's Quest, Space Quest, Leisure Suit Larry, and Space Quest were IQ tests in the 80s the are impatience tests today. I didn't even know there was a help guide ... until to today. I spend weeks beating Space Quest. Between being in the 5th grade and homework and chores.
10-year-old me in 1987 managed to solve the glass/laser puzzle in a couple hours, but completely failed to find Orat's cave and had to resort to the hint book. I thought Orat was the sand monster that grabs you if you go in the wrong direction, and tried to have the spider follow me into the desert.
I very rarely watch 20 minutes of somebody's video and click subscribe. Well deserved, great content. And great ear for music, seems like some of the best games of the times are really spreading in influence.
So glad to see this, was jusy rewatching the House video, and then saw the kingquests, and thought to myself "I never could finish the first space quest". And now we're here.
I can't say what my job is but I have a very important job and an EXTREMELY boring task came up and this saved me and made me do it. You're a literal hero. Thank you.
youre like my favroite youtuber, I found you for life is strange abridged but im staying for the video game content that i love so much. I love your humor and your way of showing the games is so entertaining and easy to understand. keep it up my man!
i love these old school pc game reviews/playthroughs the most. i really hope you keep going with the kings quest and sierra games. great, great, GREAT job man. keep up the awesome work
I still laugh sometimes thinking about the dwarf appearing and stealing your treasure chest in the Kings Quest video. I was delighted to see a space quest video pop up the other day! I think I only played one of the later space quests… but that was also around the time I began to give up on the sierra game torture and leaned into Lucas Arts
Watching you play this is frustrating... But fun. Brings back memories of my first time playing it when I was like 6 or 7. Thought, I'm pretty sure I found the glass in my first play-througj, though I was taught when playing these games to use "look" a lot, particularly when any element of the game changes or progresses.
I had an interesting Space Quest walkthrough as a kid, it covered the first 3 games and was written as a play-by-play telling of the game by Roger Wilco. I dont know if it was an official guide or not, but I must have read that thing a hundred times back then. I remember having a very similar guide for Quest for Glory games, where the walkthrough was written as a sort of novel detailing the main character's travels through the games.
Fond memories of Space Quest 1 - playing on my Tandy Computer. I somehow managed all those puzzles at the age of 12, i think back then with all the choose your own adventure style games and books, it was easier. If I were to play this today, I'd lose it!
Dan from Game Grumps played through a bunch of these games and talked about playing them as a child, and the process of figuring out the puzzles over months of trying which I really recommend checking out to see a bit more of these games!
Ah space quest. Such an amazing series. Space quest 4 was one of my absolute favourites as a kid. I just watched the space quest historian do a playthrough not that long ago.
This video, and the King's Quest ones, has to be one of the most entertainingly infuriating one I've ever watched. I genuinely swore out loud in public in exasperation after the jetpack part. Holy f*ing hell, WHY would ANYONE design a game like this?!?! Thank God I'm not playing it, and thank YOU for playing it, PowerPak. Have been really enjoying your content recently :)
Really enjoy these videos from you. Hoping that you'll go through the more obscure Sierra releases like Manhunter: NY and SF - would really like to see your frustratio- I mean takes on those games.
that game is actually insane man i love those video seeing those old games where many "make sense" things we have in today's age did not exact at the time
Oh boy. Between KQ3 and SQ2, I'm not sure which will have you raging harder. Looking forward to it! 😈😈 Oh, and funny thing. Yes, that was ZZ Top in the bar, and Sierra got sued over it. The SQ series actually became a bit infamous for being a lawsuit magnet, forcing multiple revised versions over the years.
It seems almost serendipitous that this video released on the day of an unprecedented solar storm, with the Aurora Borealis faintly visibly in British skies. I could just about see it from the roof of my local this evening, and even in its subdued and muted form above an overly-luminous metropolis (even the edge of the London area is still blighted by light pollution from the capital), I was awed by its majesty. It wasn't quite like seeing the Milky Way from the heart of Zion National Park, but it was still a sight to behold. I wonder if Roger ever gets to see such colourful plasma storms in his adventures? He undoubtedly gets to marvel at the wonders of colourful beams disintegrating his body, but hopefully he'll get to mellow out as he watches the aurora. Probably while waiting too long in the area and getting eaten by a giant fuzzy tardigrade.
Wasn't there an ancient Space Quest spiritual successor Kickstarter by some of the old team or something? Whatever happened with that? God I'd kill for another of these. That kings Quest reboot was really fun
"Spaceventure," from the original two creators. It's been in development for over a decade at this point. A couple years ago, KS backers got a "finished" version which was incredibly buggy. Supposedly they're still working on it, and supposedly it'll eventually get a full release in online stores, but there's no telling when/if they'll ever actually finish it.
I'm back.
More videos this month, hopefully with less deaths.
Welcome back
@@owengrant9066 I wish we could get more games like Day of the Tentacle which had really excellent puzzles, but plenty of point and click games coming out nowadays are better than space quest 1. Don't see what's wrong with complaining about a bad parser, a crap arcade sequence, required save scumming, a "puzzle" that requires you to stand in a specific spot and look at the ship in order to know that a required item exists, etc. I guess you could consider it part of the fun to hunt for required items and figure out what arcane commands are needed and stuff like that. There is something charmingly antagonistic about the game design, but it doesn't seem like a more thoughtful or intelligent game. It just hates you.
Would love to see your take on the Quest For Glory series next. QFG1 is my childhood and has a "modernized" version (no text entries) if you want to take a break from trying to find the correct words in a lexicon. (Although by the time QFG started, the lexicon was so improved that speedrunners are breaking the game by typing only a few letters per prompt in the original text based version)
@@Volvary Quest for Glory is definitely on the cards with how much it's been requested, though I'd like to keep these Sierra games in a somewhat chronological manner, so I need to escape the AGI period first...
@@PowerPakGames Godspeed with that! Somedays you'll make it to the EGA era
This man has suffered for our entertainment like a roman gladiator
"Are you not entertained?!" Oh, we are, Jack. Very much so.
At least gladiator were treated like rockstars, this game just treat him like crap
@@strikeforce1500 And unlike poor Roger, gladiators didn't get killed - contrary to popular belief.
8:59 "maybe next I'll remind Roger how to breathe" Space Quest 2 Foreshadowing 😬
* Insert Spongebob hyperventilating. *
And just when we needed him (read: my ADHD needed another hour long gaming retrospective), he returned. Perfect timing.
Extremely stooked!
Heyyyy shut up shut up stop yelling at me
The adhd needing another gaming retrospective hits too hard, i just almost finished dungeon chill's yesterday. I use them as bg noise for crocheting haha
You don’t have to tell us about your disabilities
@@garrettcarrett8634 And you didn't have to subject everyone to this useless comment, but here you are.
I already knew immediately the beam puzzle would get to you. Both Guys from Andromeda acknowledge it as one of the most frustrating puzzles in the game, because the solution isn't communicated to you in any way.
I'm so glad this series isn't dead, unlike poor Roger over there
poor roger, taken in his prime.
All deaths should be Orat basketballing you. The sound and the look at the camera are just perfect
I have to appreciate how you gradually started thinking the way the game wanted you to, and began catching more traps and hidden interactions before they could screw you over.
It's one of those skills no one should ever have to learn.
It's the adventure game callus so to speak.
"Ulence Flats"
Honestly, I have to say that's one of the better fart references I've seen in a game, so this isn't a complaint.
Count me in as looking forward to King's Quest III. On one hand, the game makes a lot of steps forward for the series. It has a lot more story, its more focused, it doesn't just dump you in a field and ask you to solve random puzzles. Its the first game in the series that really feels like the King's Quest that comes later. On the other hand, boy does this game make some choices. Some absolutely wild choices.
But that mountain path… soooo many deaths. And the wizard annihilating you if you didn’t get your tasks done in time… or stepped in the wrong room. Still. Fantastic game!
I'm crying foul, that coin has two fantasy series on it
It’s Sci-Fi fantasy 🤓
@@Witchgirl44uhm, its akusally science-fantasy 🤓👆
@@alexfvghn sci fi is fantasy
The dread I felt when that bridge cracked...
Those animations were great. Thanks for showing more of these games, this has been super fun to watch!
Don't stop uploading Pak, I love your content. From your hits like Iron Lung, the Doom mod and Signalis, to your game demo recommendations. I discovered some real gems because of those. Keep it up!
It seems like these don't get the views they deserve, but I'm really glad you make them. No other RUclipsr does trepidation, bewilderment, and frustration as well as you do, and these games are perfect for that haha, keep it up! I never played these but always wanted to, so it's nice watching you play, especially when you don't know what you're doing. It feels like getting the full experience that way.
26:58 - "Ulence Flats", eh? Is that in the Encyclopedia under "Flats, Ulence?"
surprised he didn't pick up on that joke lol
@@neonhalos We all have a brain fart now and again.
A joke that I did not comprehend until thirty years after first playing the game :)
YAY SOMETHING I CAN WATCH OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND OVER!
Thank you :D
Took the thoughts right outta my head ♥
The remake of the game that Sierra put out about 5 years later using their more advanced SCI game engine took the opportunity to give the player ways to bypass or at least better understand the more obscure puzzles of the original. The crashed spaceship actually has the survival kit and pieces of broken glass in the sand outside, with the glasa helpfully glittering in the sun to make it super obvious. It's made easier to force the spider droid to encounter Orat (the original game requires a very specific set of events to happen to make sure Orat is triggered inside the cave at the same time the spider is chasing you; the remake just spawns Orat in the cave all the time). The arcade Skimmer sequence can be skipped, as can the fruit machine in the Bar (through use of a magnet you can find back at the start of the game). While these quality of life changes don't really change the overall game, they do make some of it's more 'ambiguous' puzzles easier to figure out. It's still possible to go into the caverns without picking up the glass shard in this remake, but if you don't try to pick up the now super obvious glass pieces that literally sparkle for you, then it's more the player's own fault than in the original. 🤣
And adds in the sequence of SQ6 Roger jumping away in the time patrol ship
IT'S COLD OUTSIDE, THERE'S NO KIND OF ATMOSPHERE, WE'RE ALL ALONE, MORE OR LESS, LET ME FLY, FAR AWAY FROM HERE, FUN FUN FUN, IN THE SUN SUN SUN
Yeass
You killed all the "evil" Sariens; the good ones are all back home.
When you use the Cruelty Squad theme around 20 minutes it fits so perfectly lmao incredible work
I’m happy this is here I have been rewatching the King’s Quest videos
this game series is so good now i need to replay all king quest, police quest and space quest. fun, hilarious, original. nothing else like it today
Hell yeah, another PowerPak video about a game that came out before I was born.
Hell yeah, love those videos on early point and click games!
Point and click but your character is the pointer.
Showing Dandy from "Space Dandy" when you pointed out that its a different game, but IN SPACE made me chuckle
I know these aren't the most popular vids. But they make my brain happy so thank you
Gee, it sure is cold outside- almost like there's no kind of atmosphere. Makes me feel all alone, more or less.
Wow, blast from the past! I loved the Space Quest series. Cheers for the memories!
I was summoned by the Red Dwarf theme tune.
Just finished the Signalis video when this uploaded. Excited to watch another great vid!
The Quest games were so much fun. Played 'em all, loved 'em all.
Oh, magnificent, a new powerpak video! Time to watch this one seventeen times.
The magnet would have helped reduce the gambling. It was fun watching, well listening, to an adult man grumble at a game I beat as a ten year old without any sort of help. King's Quest, Space Quest, Leisure Suit Larry, and Space Quest were IQ tests in the 80s the are impatience tests today.
I didn't even know there was a help guide ... until to today. I spend weeks beating Space Quest. Between being in the 5th grade and homework and chores.
10-year-old me in 1987 managed to solve the glass/laser puzzle in a couple hours, but completely failed to find Orat's cave and had to resort to the hint book. I thought Orat was the sand monster that grabs you if you go in the wrong direction, and tried to have the spider follow me into the desert.
I very rarely watch 20 minutes of somebody's video and click subscribe. Well deserved, great content. And great ear for music, seems like some of the best games of the times are really spreading in influence.
11:22 I love how you react with dread to how hot it is on the planet, but it’s still cooler than my home in summer (I live in Las Vegas)
Holy Shit I'm so happy, found this channel through the King's Quest videos a month and enjoyed every video since
I adore your Sierra Entertainment videos
You can really feel the creeping insanity in this video. big fan
So glad to see this, was jusy rewatching the House video, and then saw the kingquests, and thought to myself "I never could finish the first space quest". And now we're here.
I can't say what my job is but I have a very important job and an EXTREMELY boring task came up and this saved me and made me do it. You're a literal hero. Thank you.
I have had the worst day ever and I was not gonna go to bed without at least one W.
Bless this channel, bless this video.
Be brave m8 you have all my support ! Hope you'll have 10 good days in compensation for this one ! Greetings from France !
@@Unah129 Already stacking them up! All the love, mon ami!
These are so wonderful, for anyone who has childhood memories of messing around in these games. Your humor and attention to detail are wonderful, too.
Your persistence is inspirational
Been one of my favorite watches since the DOOM My House video
NEW LONG VIDEO FROM POWERPAK YESSSS
Man if you play all of these, I will be so psyched
youre like my favroite youtuber, I found you for life is strange abridged but im staying for the video game content that i love so much. I love your humor and your way of showing the games is so entertaining and easy to understand. keep it up my man!
ME LITERALLY SO EXCITED FOR THIS VIDEO THANK GOD
THANK YOU!!!! I absolutely love your Kings's Quest videos, I was waiting for this one! 😀
HELL YEAH , someone tackling the adventure game series no one talks about anymore
I've been so excited for this, I checked your channel yesterday to make sure I was still subscribed.
Ah so good, nice to see a fresh playthrough! Look forward to hopefully seeing the rest of the series
i love these old school pc game reviews/playthroughs the most. i really hope you keep going with the kings quest and sierra games. great, great, GREAT job man. keep up the awesome work
spacequest 3 is one of my fav games
I still laugh sometimes thinking about the dwarf appearing and stealing your treasure chest in the Kings Quest video. I was delighted to see a space quest video pop up the other day! I think I only played one of the later space quests… but that was also around the time I began to give up on the sierra game torture and leaned into Lucas Arts
I love these videos on old Sierra games. My favorite videos of yours
Watching you play this is frustrating... But fun. Brings back memories of my first time playing it when I was like 6 or 7. Thought, I'm pretty sure I found the glass in my first play-througj, though I was taught when playing these games to use "look" a lot, particularly when any element of the game changes or progresses.
Another 10/10. Keeping killing it Pak
I had an interesting Space Quest walkthrough as a kid, it covered the first 3 games and was written as a play-by-play telling of the game by Roger Wilco. I dont know if it was an official guide or not, but I must have read that thing a hundred times back then. I remember having a very similar guide for Quest for Glory games, where the walkthrough was written as a sort of novel detailing the main character's travels through the games.
I've been waiting so long for your next video. I adore your video style.
If you go back to King's Quest, 3 is both my favorite and also the most brutal and tricky.
PowerPak : while I sadly don't have the finances to support you, please know you have at least one huge fan none the less
He just doesn't miss, lads.
god i love this series so much, i cant wait to see what next sierra will do to you.
Those deaths were a big part of the charm. We wanted to see how many ways can wilco die. I loved these sierra and lucas art adventure games!
Yesss!! I'm back for the Sierra Quest series. Love your videos.
Fond memories of Space Quest 1 - playing on my Tandy Computer. I somehow managed all those puzzles at the age of 12, i think back then with all the choose your own adventure style games and books, it was easier. If I were to play this today, I'd lose it!
Dan from Game Grumps played through a bunch of these games and talked about playing them as a child, and the process of figuring out the puzzles over months of trying which I really recommend checking out to see a bit more of these games!
Ah space quest. Such an amazing series. Space quest 4 was one of my absolute favourites as a kid. I just watched the space quest historian do a playthrough not that long ago.
0:30 Space dandy reference, chad move
Space Dandy was so dope.
In 1986 there were many with this tolerance for punishment … Only one remains. Hats/helmets off to you, sir.
Hooray! Love to see OCRemix get some note! Your videos always have excellent music direction and if any of it is original, my super space-compliments!
Oh boy, KQ3 is gonna be a wild ride.
That was a powerful and distressing wormhole to my childhood. Ah, GAMING IN THE 80s AND 90s, how I have not missed ye! Well done, m8!
Highlight of the day: a new video from power pak
I'd love to see you play more of the series. Space Quest gets a LOT better with future installments. :)
I loved this game and replayed it many times!
I'm gonna rewatch every vid on the channel fr txtxtx for uploading for real they are all so good
This video, and the King's Quest ones, has to be one of the most entertainingly infuriating one I've ever watched. I genuinely swore out loud in public in exasperation after the jetpack part. Holy f*ing hell, WHY would ANYONE design a game like this?!?! Thank God I'm not playing it, and thank YOU for playing it, PowerPak. Have been really enjoying your content recently :)
Really enjoy these videos from you. Hoping that you'll go through the more obscure Sierra releases like Manhunter: NY and SF - would really like to see your frustratio- I mean takes on those games.
I see you. I know what you're doing.
Yess finally I’ve been so excited for this video
I'm so excited for the inevitable kingdom hearts video! Favourite franchise of all time, and I love your content!
omg, I actually had totally forgotten that dreaded slot machine, think my mind wanted to save me... thanks for the reminder :) great video mate.
that game is actually insane man i love those video seeing those old games where many "make sense" things we have in today's age did not exact at the time
oh my gosh i was JUST checking your channel yesterday for new videos and you just made one on the successor to kings quest? oh this is gonna be good
This was really entertaining. I hope you are going to do more Sierra games.
That red dwarf theme immedately after introducing silly sci fi is wonderful
I love Kingdom Hearts. When your video on it comes out (if it ever does), I have a shiny thumbs up and a comment waiting for you.
Oh boy. Between KQ3 and SQ2, I'm not sure which will have you raging harder. Looking forward to it! 😈😈
Oh, and funny thing. Yes, that was ZZ Top in the bar, and Sierra got sued over it. The SQ series actually became a bit infamous for being a lawsuit magnet, forcing multiple revised versions over the years.
This was absolutely lovely to watch.
It seems almost serendipitous that this video released on the day of an unprecedented solar storm, with the Aurora Borealis faintly visibly in British skies. I could just about see it from the roof of my local this evening, and even in its subdued and muted form above an overly-luminous metropolis (even the edge of the London area is still blighted by light pollution from the capital), I was awed by its majesty. It wasn't quite like seeing the Milky Way from the heart of Zion National Park, but it was still a sight to behold.
I wonder if Roger ever gets to see such colourful plasma storms in his adventures? He undoubtedly gets to marvel at the wonders of colourful beams disintegrating his body, but hopefully he'll get to mellow out as he watches the aurora. Probably while waiting too long in the area and getting eaten by a giant fuzzy tardigrade.
Bravo! Much love I'll watch your channel forever ❤
I'm not even playing this game and I screamed at the jetpack screwover
Wasn't there an ancient Space Quest spiritual successor Kickstarter by some of the old team or something? Whatever happened with that?
God I'd kill for another of these. That kings Quest reboot was really fun
Well space quest did end up being a series.
"Spaceventure," from the original two creators. It's been in development for over a decade at this point. A couple years ago, KS backers got a "finished" version which was incredibly buggy. Supposedly they're still working on it, and supposedly it'll eventually get a full release in online stores, but there's no telling when/if they'll ever actually finish it.
Great series of videos, incredibly intertaining!
@18:26 Terran 2 is one of the greatest songs of all time
The skimmer sequence was ridiculous when I played this for the first time. I remember struggling for over an hour to get out alive..
Please more these are AMAZING
God I missed this game. Played it literally hundreds of times