Space Quest 3 | ||||
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Developer(s) | ||||
Publisher(s) |
Sierra | |||
Designer(s) | ||||
Engine | ||||
Release date |
1989 | |||
Genre |
Adventure | |||
Mode(s) |
Single player | |||
Rating(s) |
N/A | |||
Platform(s) |
DOS, Macintosh, Amiga, Atari ST | |||
Media |
3.5" Floppy Disk or 5.25" Floppy Disk | |||
System Requirements |
8088/8086 CPU; 512KB RAM; Video: CGA, EGA, Hercules, MCGA, Tandy/PCjr, or VGA; Sound cards: Adlib, Game Blaster (CMS), IBM Music Feature Card, PC Speaker, PS/1 Audio Card, Roland MT-32, Sound Blaster, Tandy DAC (TL/SL), or Tandy/PCjr | |||
Input |
Joystick (Analog), Keyboard, or Mouse |
General Information
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The game was released on March 24th, 1989, and was the first SQ game to be developed using an early version of Sierra's SCI engine. It featured music composed by the Supertramp drummer, Bob Siebenberg, and was one of the first games in the world that came with SoundBlaster support. As well as this impressive sound-support, PC versions of the game now supported mouse movement and a new, heavily improved, text parser. It also featured a mini-side game inside it, called Astro Chicken.
Synopsis
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Roger's escape pod from the end of the last adventure is captured by a robot garbage freighter. Once more he must escape his surroundings, and does this by repairing an old ship named the Aluminum Mallard. During the game he discovers the sinister activities of a game company known as ScumSoft, run by the "Pirates of Pestulon", that has abducted the Two Guys from Andromeda and is forcing them to design their games. Roger's goal quickly becomes getting inside their impregnable offices and rescuing the two programmers, including an amusing sequence where Roger must fight Elmo Pug, the nerdy president of ScumSoft, in a game of Nukem Dukem robots.
Credits
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Design
- Mark Crowe
- Scott Murphy
Programming
- Ken Koch
- Scott Murphy
- Doug Oldfield
- Christopher Tudor-Smith
Game Development System
- Pablo Ghenis
- Stuart Goldstein
- Robert E. Heitman
- Jeff Stephenson
Music
Bob Siebenberg
Music System
Stuart Goldstein
Sound Effects
Mark Seibert
Documentation
Bridget McKenna
See Also
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Space Quest Games (Canon) | ||||||||||
SQ1 | SQ2 | SQ3 | SQ4 | SQ5 | SQ6 | SQ6 Demo | ||||
* Category:Games |