Space Quest 1 VGA. Intro

Space Quest or more formally Space Quest: The Sarien Encounter was a video game released in October of 1986 and quickly became a hit, selling in excess of 100,000 copies (sales are believed to be around 200,000 to date, not including the many compilations it has been included in). Players of the original game are never told the hero’s name, but are instead asked to enter their own. The default name of “Roger Wilco“ — a reference to the abbreviated radio communication, “Roger, Will Comply“ — became the de facto name of the hero in the later games of the series. Roger is a member of the cleaning crew onboard the scientific spaceship “Arcada“, which holds a powerful experimental device called the “Star Generator“ (a thinly-veiled reference to the Genesis Device from Star Trek II). Roger emerges from an on-duty nap in a broom closet to find that the ship has been boarded and seized by the sinister Sariens. Space Quest was eventually remade usi
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