Space Quest II remade, released for free
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Perhaps "remade" isn't the best word to describe what the team at Infamous Adventures has done to Sierra's 1987 classic Space Quest II: Vohaul's Revenge. "Lovingly rebuilt," perhaps, or "delicately hand-milled," if such a term can be considered applicable in a programming sense. (We've decided it can.)
Infamous Adventures' reproduction features "hand-drawn backgrounds, hand animated characters, a full voice pack featuring over 4,000 recorded lines and a whole lot of extras," according to the group's official website. We don't know what's more touching, the fact that a small group of people completely rejiggered a classic out of love for the original, or that the fruits of their labor can be downloaded for free.
Watch those system requirements, though, as the PC version requires a whole meg of RAM.
Reader Comments (17)
Posted: Dec 31st 2011 9:39PM Kevadu said
I'm an old Space Quest fan, but II was probably my least favorite of them all. Seems like an odd target for this much effort...
Posted: Dec 31st 2011 9:47PM Gibbeynator said
@Kevadu
2 and 3 are the only ones made in the old game engines.
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2 and 3 are the only ones made in the old game engines.
Posted: Dec 31st 2011 9:55PM Gibbeynator said
They claim that this game requires 600mb of free hard drive space. I'm pretty sure you could fit the entire Space Quest Collection in that amount of space.
Posted: Jan 1st 2012 12:12AM Jennacide said
@Gibbeynator
You could fit it on much smaller than that. Try about 20MB. The first game was only like 1MB.
What's really crazy is looking back at some of these games and seeing their file sizes, when they seem they should be much higher. Curse of Monkey Island of instance. Cartoon animated, voiced, 56MB. O_O
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You could fit it on much smaller than that. Try about 20MB. The first game was only like 1MB.
What's really crazy is looking back at some of these games and seeing their file sizes, when they seem they should be much higher. Curse of Monkey Island of instance. Cartoon animated, voiced, 56MB. O_O
Posted: Dec 31st 2011 10:15PM Fulgrymm said
Just a nitpick, it requires a meg of video memory. It actually requires a whopping 32 megs of ram to work. Oh and one of those new bleeding edge Pentium 166s.
Posted: Dec 31st 2011 10:23PM (Unverified) said
I would criticize them for making it PC only but I suppose since its free and all that I really wouldn't have a leg to stand on.
Would love to play it though.
Would love to play it though.
Posted: Dec 31st 2011 10:39PM Once known as Shadsy said
@(Unverified) According to their site, "A Mac port is on its way soon."
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Posted: Dec 31st 2011 11:11PM KGameLover1 said
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I'm using a custom Wineskin build, works fine!
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I'm using a custom Wineskin build, works fine!
Posted: Dec 31st 2011 10:54PM Chief Oddball said
This comes along just as I was starting to dig out my old DOS games again. Downloading now.
Posted: Dec 31st 2011 11:31PM darkinchworm said
Downloading now just in case it gets a good ol' C&D.
They should remake the 4th game and completely do away with the horrible robot of death and misery that makes the very beginning of the game near intolerable.
They should remake the 4th game and completely do away with the horrible robot of death and misery that makes the very beginning of the game near intolerable.
Posted: Jan 1st 2012 10:44AM JakeAuditore said
A WHOLE MEG OF RAM?! That's unheard of! Storm their offices! Make them pay for this outrageous choice.
Posted: Jan 2nd 2012 1:18PM (Unverified) said
Don't forget Space Quest: Vohaul Strikes Back, which is a fangame with a fully-original plot (not a remake) which came out a week before the SQ2 remake, and available at http://www.sqvsb.com
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