Talk:Space Quest III

Scumsoft

To tell you the truth, I grew up thinking that the ficticious company "Scumsoft" was a play on the adventure game system of Sierra's business rival Lucasarts' adventure game engine, SCUMM. I never thought of Microsoft and Sunsoft at all. Why didn't Sierra like either company? --71.68.250.218 03:30, 21 June 2006 (UTC)

Well, one explanation for parodying Microsoft would be that Elmo Pug looks like a caricature of Bill Gates. JIP | Talk 10:02, 23 October 2006 (UTC)

I can't see them having anything against Microsoft in 1989. SunSoft might have been a competitor, but outside of Japan they only made console games. They apparently assited in the development of the Nintendo Wii. All of this might be a coincidence. "ScumSoft" is a logical enough name for a fictional evil software company in a humorous game. Joel Blanchette 20:00, 28 February 2007 (UTC)

I have played an ungodly amount of Space Quest in my time, and was quite active in the community in the late 90s, but I have never heard the notion that ScumSoft was a parody of Sunsoft (indeed I did not know of them before I visited this page) I always believed it to be a combination of a parody of Microsoft and a friendly stab at Sierra itself (and especially Ken Williams in the form of the guys with whips patrolling the cubicles), but I think that unless we can find references that specify that to be the case (or clear evidence in ingame text) it should be removed altogether as speculation, and I have gone ahead and done so. BeShaMo (talk) 11:45, 5 January 2008 (UTC)

Promo video

Hi,

I just found a link here for a video that was released by Sierra On-Line regarding the launch of Space Quest III in 1989.

http://front.xstream.dk/dagbladet/mediamaker_flash.php?id=18596

There's two advertisments shown before the video itself. Source is: http://www.dagbladet.no/kultur/2007/05/18/500993.html

Should we add the videol on the main page?

Thanks, —Preceding unsigned comment added by 193.194.129.105 (talk • contribs) 11:37, 18 May 2007

The title

The title of the game is an obvious pun on The Pirates of Penzance.[citation needed]

With reference to the above line in the article, I would think that it would be a very difficult thing to prove this is indeed a pun. Other than comments made by either of the designers, I don't think it could be proven. That said, it is rather an obvious pun. Klytos 15:24, 22 May 2007 (UTC)

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BetacommandBot (talk) 19:51, 26 November 2007 (UTC)

What's the problem with "Chicken Reel"?

Go to the Chicken Reel page, scroll down to the bottom, follow the link to Amazon.com and listen. It's the same melody as in "Astro Chicken". It's a popular song, so why the "CN" tag? -- megA 23:26, 3 December 2007 (UTC)

Reference to Nighthawks (painting)?

Could the Monolith Burger scene in the game be a reference to Edward Hopper's Nighthawks painting? It sure looks similar, especially when compared with the Simpsons one. -- œ^™ 17:39, 13 October 2009 (UTC)

I don't know, but it seems a bit speculative there. SchuminWeb (Talk) 18:19, 13 October 2009 (UTC)

Astro Chicken?

Why is half this page about Astro Chicken? It's a very minor part of the game. Even the short paragraph on Astro Chicken under Technical Details seems like too much. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.67.115.147 (talk) 14:34, 30 January 2010 (UTC)

I've trimmed it down considerably. SchuminWeb (Talk) 13:44, 31 January 2010 (UTC)

Sound Blaster & digitized samples

I reworked the paragraph on the use of digitized audio samples, notably eliminating the claim that "the game did not utilize the Sound Blaster's digital capabilities". In fact, it does, but the driver file originally packaged with the game, SNDBLAST.DRV, doesn't enable the effects. Replacing the driver file with another version (SNDBLAST.DRV used by the 1990 remake of King's Quest I, for example) corrects the issue, and the effects can be heard on a PC via the Sound Blaster. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Omny.c (talk • contribs) 04:56, 6 April 2010 (UTC)

Move discussion in progress

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Blast Backwards

Is there any particular reason why the last sentence of this article is there? What significance does Blast Backwards have? There's countless Space Quest III videos on YouTube. Looks like a sneaky viral. 121.220.49.13 (talk) 09:56, 11 April 2016 (UTC)

Death scene

I believe the Computer Gaming World description is incorrect - the body parts don't move down the conveyor belt. Instead, if Roger remains on the conveyor belt, he gets dumped into a shredder (the process gets a "censored" bar). The restart dialog then shows a picture of packaged ground meat (with USDA stamped on it) and the message "You're not choice cut, Roger!". 72.241.174.143 (talk) 03:21, 1 January 2019 (UTC)

Sources

• https://archive.org/stream/GamesInternational/GI_14_May_1990#page/n45/mode/2up