"Space Quest 1" Original and Remake Quiz

Answer: Astral bodies

In the original "Space Quest 1," in the cartridge room, a scientist will walk in the room and get shot to death as soon as he enters the room. He warns Roger that he better get off the ship ASAP. He then points to the cartridges and says "Astral Bodies" in his dying breath. Roger then gets that cartridge, and takes it to Xenon, where his people will use it to create another Star Generator to replace the ones that the Sariens stole and that Roger blew up. Before the end of the game, he finds a computer and inserts the cartridge there and learns some useful information from it, including a password that'll be important later. If Roger doesn't take the cartridge from the Arcada, or he leaves it at one of the computers, he will be told that he forgot it, but "That's okay. You're only a janitor."

In the remake, what the scientist says varies from playthrough to playthrough. You have to look in the manual and enter the code for whatever he says to get the cartridge. He could say "Astral Bodies." He could say one of the three wrong answers. Or he could say something else.

Answer: Daventry

In the original "Space Quest 1", if Roger pressed the "Do not press" button, his ship goes to the "King's Quest" realm and crashed into the moat in front of Castle Daventry. Roberta Williams, the designer of the "King's Quest" series, wakes up and says "Ken, what was that?" Ken tells her that it was just some "Space Quest" player who hit the "Do Not Press" button and tells Roberta to go back to sleep.

In the remake, Roger crashes into Nottingham, just outside the pub. This is a plug for the Robin Hood-themed game "Conquests of the Longbow".

Answer: Magnet

In the remake, there is a magnet in the control room that can be used to rig the deadly slot machines, so that Roger always wins money from them and never gets killed. This doesn't exist in the original game. There is a way to rig the slot machines in the original game, but I can't mention it here.

Answer: Feed it a sticky plant

You feed the monster a sticky plant and it tries to eat the sticky plant, but its mouths get permanently stuck to the plant. After you do this, passing the monster is easy. Before doing this, passing the monster is impossible in the remake.

Answer: Drink the acid

In the remake of "Space Quest 1", you can stick your hand in the acid. Roger's hand will melt off, and he will scream in a funny way. One would think you could live without a hand, but the game doesn't let you continue without a hand. Not only that, but the two guys from Andromeda (the creators of the game) provide commentary on your death, with some killer music in the background. You an also smell or taste the acid. If you do either of those things, Roger's head will melt.

In the original "Space Quest 1", you can only drink the acid. It's the same result as the remake though.

Answer: If you walk into the laser beams

Underground in Kerona, there are laser beams that you are supposed to destroy by reflecting them with a piece of broken class from your escape pod. If you just walk into the laser beams, you will die. In the remake, the two guys from Andromeda will appear with some commentary and great music to comment on your death.

Answer: The robot on the Arcada

At the beginning of the game, the robot will say "Destruct sequence is engaged. Fifteen minutes until detonation." If you are on the Arcada long enough, the robot will give you more warnings. When you get to thirty seconds, the game will give you some warning music in addition to the spoken warnings. The robot will start counting down when you get to five seconds.

Also, you only hear Roger speak in the remake if he dies at certain points.

Answer: Droids B Us

Toys R Us sued Sierra for plagiarizing their name in this game, so when they remade "Space Quest", they had to change it to Droids B Us. The "Space Quest" series has generated more lawsuits against Sierra than any other series Sierra made.

Answer: Prince

In the original "Space Quest 1", you just get ZZ Top and you hear them playing music in PC speaker sound. In the remake, the quality of the sound had been upgraded immensely, and you get three different artists. When you walk in the bar, you can see and hear either the Blues Brothers, ZZ Top, or Madonna, playing some great quality music, albeit the music isn't their music in real life. Roger doesn't care for Madonna.

He likes the other two.

Answer: Marvin the Android

In the remake, Marvin the Android from "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" appears on the Deltaur at the weapon shop and sells you your weapon. He's depressed because he has an IQ of 5,000, but all they allow him to do is sell weapons. He's even more depressed because he knows they could have hooked him up to the ship's internal system and find out who you are right away without an ID, but they didn't do that and instead told him to ask for an ID.

This makes it possible for Roger to beat the system (He hides in a washing machine and when a Sarien uses it, he steals the Sarien's clothes and ID.

He dresses up as the Sarien and fools everyone, including Marvin.