Out of all the games I have played, I think that I honestly loved this one the most. Space Quest 1 was one of the first computer games I remember playing, and must have started playing it when I was about 9 or 10 years old. It doesn't sound like much, but in the early nineties, girls did not tend to play text based games on the computer. Forget MSN Messenger, Space Quest 1is how I learnt to type.
This game is great – you get to name the character as yourself, and use nice simple commands to tell your character what to do – sit down, look around, and pick up.
Out of all the games I have played, I think that I honestly loved this one the most. Space Quest 1 was one of the first computer games I remember playing, and must have started playing it when I was about 9 or 10 years old. It doesn't sound like much, but in the early nineties, girls did not tend to play text based games on the computer. Forget MSN Messenger, Space Quest 1is how I learnt to type.
This game is great – you get to name the character as yourself, and use nice simple commands to tell your character what to do – sit down, look around, and pick up. You have to pay attention to little details and work your way
through what was on screen, pick up pretty much every available item and guess what to do next.
I loved playing this game as a kid, even though I had no idea what half the jokes meant. Years later I realized the game was a great humorous game. You start as a Janitor that escapes your ship, which has been invaded by the bad guy’s soldier’s look remarkably like Storm Troopers.
The entertainment in the cantina includes the Blues Brothers and that band from the Cantina in Star Wars (A New Hope). You get to gamble on a slot machine to gain more cash, but risk the chance of getting three skulls and being reduced to a little pile of ash.
Sure the graphics seem crappy now, but this game was made in the mid 80s – all games back then had giant pixels and no small detail. This game is a classic – from when computers had barely any RAM, ran on DOS and every household didn’t have a PC, little lone play computer games.
Droids, Storm Trooper like bad guys, a genuine challenge to play using your brain, and a game not based on how realistic the graphics look - what more could you want?
