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Gotta love those Space Quest games! You haven't really lived until you've played Astro Chicken in a space diner.

SQIII was the greatest of all the games they made.

SQIII was great, but IV really was the peak of the series for me. The time travel to future installments (you went to Space Quest 12 I think?) was really well done, and it had a slightly more serious edge that all the others in the series lacked. I remember years later trying to play the cartoonish SQVI and thinking they'd turned it into a terrible caricature of itself, which is a mighty feat.

The time travel to future installments (you went to Space Quest 12 I think?) was really well done,

And traveling back to Space Quest 1 with EGA graphics.

There is also this scene where you have to free up memory on some machine by throwing applications in the thrash can (erm toilet) [1]. The first time I made the mistake to trash the SQIV icon, which throws you right back to DOS. Of course, I hadn't saved for a while.

[1] http://www.mobygames.com/game/dos/space-quest-iv-roger-wilco...

SQIII always felt a little short to me. SQV is probably my pick, but they're all great.

There's also some great Space Quest games made by the community, such as Space Quest 0, Space Quest 2 Remake, and Vohaul Strikes Back. Worth checking out for any SQ fan.

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