History Trivia / SpaceQuest

* KillerApp: The intro to ''VideoGame/SpaceQuestIII'' was a common demo for the Roland MT-32.

** In the VGA remake of ''VideoGame/SpaceQuestI'', the Arcada's archive room is explained to have a CRT monitor. And the data cartridge Roger picks up resembles an 8-track tape, which was already out of date when the original version of the game was released, let alone the remake.
** The ultra-hi-tech supercomputer in ''VideoGame/SpaceQuestIV'' (or XII) turns out to have a Macintosh 7.5-ish desktop placed over a Windows 3.1 window.
** ''VideoGame/SpaceQuestIV'': ''King's Quest XXXXVIII - Quest for Disk Space'' has a pile of 3.5" floppies on the cover. The game takes up '''over 12 gigabytes''', an unheard of amount for a game at the time. Note that [=DVDs=] can hold up to 9 gigabytes of space (less than ten years after ''Space Quest IV's'' release), and UsefulNotes/BluRay several years after that can hold up to ''fifty'' gigabytes of space.
** There's also the long list of old computer stuff in the Genetix lab of ''VideoGame/SpaceQuestV'', including SCSI drives, Base-T network, and a 9000 baud modem.
** And a few more examples in ''VideoGame/SpaceQuestVI''

* TheWikiRule: The [[http://spacequest.wikia.com/wiki/Space_Quest_Omnipedia Space Quest Omnipedia]].

** ''[[https://www.spacequest.net/sq7/ Space Quest VII: Return to Roman Numerals]]''. ''The Space Quest Collection'' came with a ''Space Quest VII'' demo movie with no gameplay footage. The game was still in [[https://www.wiw.org/~jess/old_sq7.html early development]], planned to be [[PolygonCeiling 3D and multiplayer]].

** In the VGA remake of ''VideoGame/SpaceQuestI'', the Arcada's archive room is explained to have a CRT monitor. And the data cartridge Roger picks up resembles an 8-track tape.

** ''VideoGame/SpaceQuestIV'': ''King's Quest XXXXVIII - Quest for Disk Space'' has a pile of 3.5" floppies on the cover. The game takes up '''over 12 gigabytes''', an unheard of amount for a game at the time.

** ''[[http://www.spacequest.net/archives/sq7/ Space Quest VII: Return to Roman Numerals]]''. ''The Space Quest Collection'' came with a ''Space Quest VII'' demo movie with no gameplay footage. The game was still in [[http://www.wiw.org/~jess/old_sq7.html early development]], planned to be [[PolygonCeiling 3D and multiplayer]].
** Escape Factory's ''[[http://www.spacequest.net/archives/sq7/escapefactory/index.shtml Space Quest]]'', an InNameOnly [[http://www.unseen64.net/tag/escape-factory/ action-adventure]] platformer for [=PS2=]/Xbox, starring "Wilger".

** ''VideoGame/SpaceQuestIV'': ''King's Quest XXXXVIII - Quest for Disk Space'' has a pile of 3.5" floppies on the cover. The game takes up '''over 12 megabytes''', an unheard of amount for a game at the time.

** ''VideoGame/SpaceQuestIV'': ''King's Quest XXXXVIII - Quest for Disk Space'' has a pile of 3.5" floppies on the cover. The game takes up '''over 12 gigabytes''', an unheard of amount for a game at the time.

** There's also the long list of old computer stuff in the Genetix lab of ''VideoGame/SpaceQuestV'', including SCSI drives, Base-T network, and a 9000 BD modem.

** The ultra-hi-tech supercomputer in ''VideoGame/SpaceQuestVI'' (or 12) turns out to have a Macintosh 7.5-ish desktop placed over a Windows 3.1 window.

** Escape Factory's ''[[http://www.spacequest.net/archives/sq7/escapefactory/index.shtml Space Quest]]'', an InNameOnly [[http://www.unseen64.net/tag/escape-factory/ action-adventure]] platformer for PS2/Xbox, starring "Wilger".

* HeyItsThatVoice: Gary Owens as the narrator in IV and 6.

** ''VideoGame/SpaceQuestIV'': ''King's Quest XXXXVIII - Quest for Disk Space'' has a pile of 3.5" floppies on the cover. The game takes up '''over 12 gigabytes''', an unheard of amount at the time.

** ''VideoGame/SpaceQuestIV'': ''King's Quest XXXXVIII - Quest for Disk Space'' has a pile of 3.5" floppies on the cover. The game takes up '''over 12 gigabytes''', an unheard of amount at the time, but common with modern games.

* FanTranslation: In the early 90's, Russian programmers translated Space Quest V. Notable because unlike other Russian fan translations at the time, which only translated the text in the game files and leaving everything which would require extensive graphical editing alone, they translated almost everything, like the miscellaneous words on the walls and animated graphic text, leaving only the Sierra logo and the Main title untranslated. They weren't above putting jokes where it was harmless though, like translating the Space Bar as Bar "Probel", as in the Russian name for the spacebar on the keyboard.

* KillerApp: The intro to ''Space Quest III'' was a common demo for the Roland MT-32.

* HeyItsThatVoice: Gary Owens as the narrator in IV and 6.

* FanTranslation: In the early 90's, Russian programmers translated Space Quest V. Notable because unlike other Russian fan translations at the time, which only translated the text in the game files and leaving everything which would require extensive graphical editing alone, they translated almost everything, like the miscellaneous words on the walls and animated graphic text, leaving only the Sierra logo and the Main title untranslated. They weren't above putting jokes where it was harmless though, like translating the Space Bar as Bar "Probel", as in the Russian name for the spacebar on the keyboard.