Editing Space Quest (section)

==Games==
{{Video game timeline
| summary = A timeline of releases in the main Space Quest series, from the first in 1986 to present.
| 1986 = ''[[Space Quest I]]''
| 1987 = ''[[Space Quest II]]''
| 1989 = ''[[Space Quest III]]''
| 1991 = ''[[Space Quest IV]]''
| 1993 = ''[[Space Quest V]]''
| 1995 = ''[[Space Quest 6]]''
}}

===''Space Quest: The Sarien Encounter''===
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The original ''Space Quest'' game was released in October 1986 and quickly became a hit, selling in excess of 100,000 copies (sales are believed to be around 200,000 to date, not including the many compilations it has been included in). A remake was released in 1991 as ''Space Quest I: Roger Wilco in the Sarien Encounter''.

===''Space Quest II: Vohaul's Revenge''===
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Released in 1987; Roger, with his newfound status of Hero, is transferred to the Xenon Orbital Station 4 and promoted to head (and only) janitor. All is quiet until he is abducted by Sludge Vohaul, who was behind the original Sarien attack of the ''Arcada''. As Roger is being transported to the Labion labour mines as punishment for thwarting Sludge's original plan, the prison ship crash-lands in a nearby jungle upon the planet. Our hero manages to escape his pursuers and the dangers of the Labion jungle and soon reaches Sludge's asteroid base. Once again, it's up to Roger alone to stop Vohaul's evil plan: to eradicate sentient life from Xenon by launching millions of cloned insurance salesmen at the planet.

===''Space Quest III: The Pirates of Pestulon''===
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Released in 1989; Roger's escape pod from the end of ''Space Quest II'' is captured by an automated garbage freighter. He escapes the robot-controlled scow by repairing an old ship, the ''Aluminum Mallard'' (a play on [[Howard Hughes]]' "[[Spruce Goose]]" and ''[[Star Wars]]''' ''[[Millennium Falcon]]''). He eventually discovers the sinister activities of a video game company known as ScumSoft run by the "Pirates of Pestulon".

===''Space Quest IV: Roger Wilco and the Time Rippers''===
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Released in 1991; in this installment, Roger embarks on a time-travel adventure through ''Space Quest'' games both real and fictional. A reborn Sludge Vohaul from the fictional ''Space Quest XII: Vohaul's Revenge II'' chases Roger through time in an attempt to finally kill him. Roger also visits settings from the fictional ''Space Quest X: Latex Babes of Estros'' (whose title is a parody of [[Infocom]]'s game ''[[Leather Goddesses of Phobos]]'') and from ''Space Quest I''; in the latter, the graphics and music revert to the style of the original game and Roger is threatened by a group of monochromatic bikers who consider Roger's 256 colors to be pretentious (or comment on other graphics modes if played in EGA or monochrome).

The games ''Space Quest XII: Vohaul's Revenge II'' and ''Space Quest X: Latex Babes of Estros'' were never actually developed or released as full games, they exist only internally in ''Space Quest IV''.

===''Space Quest V: Roger Wilco – The Next Mutation''===
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{{citation needed span|Released in 1993: in ''Space Quest V'', Roger is now a cadet in the StarCon academy. He graduates (or rather, cheats through the final exam) and is appointed captain of his own spacecraft (actually a space garbage scow). The main plot is to stop a mutagenic disease that is spreading through the galaxy by discovering its source, and fighting everyone that got infected. In the end, the disease infected the crew members of the ''SCS Goliath'', a powerful warship, whose commander, Raemes T. Quirk (a rather blatant spoof of [[James T. Kirk|Captain Kirk]]), subsequently attacks the ''Eureka''. In the end, Roger sacrifices his ship to get rid of the plague – and suddenly, if temporarily, becomes the commander of the fleet's flagship.|date=May 2025}}

{{citation needed span|Roger's cheating is, along with Raemes T. Quirk, a homage to William Shatner's ''Star Trek'' character, who cheated on his own [[Starfleet]] exam by reprogramming a "no-win" scenario so that he could successfully complete it. In a typical twist of luck, however, Roger's exam scores are still achieved by accident.|date=May 2025}}

This entry was the first in the ''Space Quest'' series where only one of the two guys from andromeda, Mark Crowe, lead a ''Space Quest'' project, due to the fact that Scott Murphy was working on other projects.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.adventureclassicgaming.com/index.php/site/interviews/234/ |title=Adventure Classic Gaming |author=Cris Skelton, Philip Jong |publisher=Adventure Classic Gaming |date=2006-11-10 |accessdate=2024-04-13}}</ref>

===''Space Quest 6: Roger Wilco in The Spinal Frontier''===
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{{citation needed span|Released in 1995, this game was the last to be released in the ''Space Quest'' series. Having defeated the diabolical pukoid mutants in ''Space Quest V'', Captain Roger Wilco triumphantly returns to StarCon headquarters – only to be court-martialed due to breaking StarCon regulations while saving the galaxy. He's busted down to Janitor Second Class, and assigned to the ''SCS DeepShip 86'' (a parody of ''[[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine]]''), commanded by Commander [[Kielbasa]], a [[Cowardly Lion]] look-alike whose name is taken from the Polish sausage as well as being a play on the names of both the feline [[Kilrathi]] from the video game series [[Wing Commander (franchise)|Wing Commander]] and of the character [[Mufasa]] from the animated motion picture [[The Lion King]]. His voice is a parody of Captain [[Jean-Luc Picard]] from [[Star Trek: The Next Generation]]. The main villain in the game is a wrinkly old lady named Sharpei, a pun on the dog Shar Pei, a wrinkly dog.|date=May 2025}}

The game's subtitle comes from the final portion, in which Roger has to undergo miniaturization and enter the body of a shipmate and romantic interest. (This segment also provided the game's original subtitle, ''Where in Corpsman Santiago is Roger Wilco?'', which was not used due to legal threats from the makers of the ''[[Carmen Sandiego (video game series)|Carmen Sandiego]]'' products.)<ref>{{Cite web |title=Guys from Andromeda » Space Quest 6: Roger Wilco in the Spinal Frontier |url=https://guysfromandromeda.com/space-quest-6-roger-wilco-spinal-frontier/ |access-date=2022-05-26 |language=en-US}}</ref>

{{citation needed span|Sadly, once again, only one of the Two Guys from Andromeda worked on this game. This time though, it was Scott Murphy who sat in the director's chair, more or less. Scott was actually a co-director of ''Space Quest 6'' with another Sierra employee, Josh Mandel, who'd worked on many of the behind-the-scenes aspects of ''Space Quest IV'' and ''V'', as well as helping create the SCI remake of ''King's Quest I''. Josh actually worked on and created the majority of ''Space Quest 6'', and had to step out when the project was already near completion, and that's when Scott Murphy just stepped in and did the rest.|date=May 2025}}

===''Space Quest 6: The Spinal Frontier Interactive Demo''===
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The demo for ''Space Quest 6'' is actually a short game unto itself. It uses the Space Quest 6 [[game engine|engine]] and takes place aboard the ''SCS DeepShip 86'' but is a stand-alone adventure. The ship is taken over by [[Borg (Star Trek)|Borg]]-like invaders called the Bjorn, and Wilco must defeat them.

=== In-fiction future sequels ===
{{citation needed span|In ''Space Quest IV'', Roger travels into both the past and future of the game's timeline. Even in-game characters are [[metafiction|conscious of living in a video game]], and refer to eras with sequel numbers, not temporal units (such as years), even though specific years are named elsewhere in the ''Space Quest'' [[Canon (fiction)|canon]]. Portions of the game took place in the time frames of the following "sequels":|date=May 2025}}
* {{citation needed span|''Space Quest X: Latex Babes of Estros'' (a reference to [[Infocom]]'s ''[[Leather Goddesses of Phobos]]''): In this timeframe, Roger or his son, Roger Jr. had had an undetermined affair with Zondra of the Latex Babes, which he ended abruptly. This timeframe contains the planet Estros and the ''Galaxy Galleria'' space station mall.|date=May 2025}}
* {{citation needed span|''Space Quest XII: Vohaul's Revenge II'': In this timeframe, Vohaul's consciousness has been uploaded in the Xenon Super Computer and infected it like a virus. He took over the planet and is sending his minions back in time to kill Roger Wilco. An underground resistance is formed against him, including his nemesis' son, Roger Wilco Jr.|date=May 2025}}

These games were never actually created, and only exist within the plot of ''Space Quest IV''. Scott Murphy has stated that he did intend to use these titles if the series had made it that far and the storyline still permitted it.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://twitter.com/slashvohaul/status/1111856537989869570|title=Thank you! Yes, unless we'd effed it up so badly in subsequent sequels that they'd already been designed out, but I did indeed imagine this.|last=Murphy|first=Scott|date=2019-03-29|website=@slashvohaul|language=en|access-date=2019-03-30}}</ref>

===''Roger Wilco's Spaced Out Game Pack''===
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Budget software including several mini-games taken from the ''Space Quest'' series. Including hoverspeeder, Monolith Burger maker, and Ms. Astro Chicken.

===''Planet Pinball''===
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''Planet Pinball'' is a series of three ''Space Quest IV'' themed [[pinball]] boards in [[Take a Break! Pinball]]. The boards include; Level One: Planet Xenon in the Beginning, Level Two: Spaced Travel, Level Three: Reformation Day.

===''Hoyle Book of Games''===
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Roger Wilco appears as an opponent in ''[[Hoyle's Official Book of Games]], Volume I''. He has conversations with the other opponents, talking about his adventures in the first three ''Space Quest'' games. Roger Wilco is trapped in the Hoyle game, and is trying to find a way to escape back to his game world.

Roger Wilco returns in ''Hoyle 3'', along with bad guy characters, Arnoid and Vohaul, but the characters are limited to talking about the game itself.

Roger also appears as an opponent in ''Hoyle Classic Card Games'', the fourth game in the series. Again, interaction is limited to the game only.