Huge thanks go to Admiral__Jay, The Space Quest Historian, sluicebox, RetroTKS, and TerranRich for their help with this video. 03:00 It is actually possible to enter the sewer without dying, though you have to be quick about it. I wanted to show an example of the fast events without spoiling things that happen later in the run. 03:48 The game font literally does not have any symbols other than these five. 03:53 The developers could have made each symbol equally likely. Instead, they did something more complicated. (All ranges mentioned are inclusive.) 1) Pick a random number between 0 and 2. 2) Pick a random number between 3 and 4. 3) Pick a random number between the two numbers generated from steps 1 and 2. That final number determines the symbol. Thanks go to sluicebox for explaining this to me. 05:27 Grim Dark End has the following to say: "That's MORE than a 'shaver' there, that's a joke based on one of the worst epilators ever made (from the late 80's)... it basically uses a rotating spring to rip hairs out... quickly usually?... It's kind of like a very slow version of hot-wax hair removal. And it's EXTREMELY painful the first few times its used. That version was even more terrifying because it had a horrible tendency to pinch and rip skin. Modern ones use a rotating sort of 'tweezer' system that is a LOT less likely to grab skin, and tends to remove hairs quickly enough to not hurt nearly as much as the primitive versions." 09:20 In addition to the game cycles being as fast as your CPU, Sierra made another change in SCI1.1. The speed slider now controls just your character instead of changing the speed of the entire game. So, counterintuitively, what you need to do in Skate-o-Rama is to turn the speed slider UP so that you have a fighting chance of evading the sequel police. Still, if your computer was too fast, this might not have been enough to solve the problem. 10:58 The first instance I can find of this skip online is from the TAS by c-square from 2011 tasvideos.org/3317S

Remember kids, Roger Wilco isn't a criminal for crossdressing. He's a criminal for committing credit card fraud. Know the difference! It could save you from the Skate-o-Rama.

"Dependent on processor speed" is a swear word among retro PC gamers.

That's MORE than a 'shaver' there, that's a joke based on one of the worst epilators ever made (from the late 80's)... it basically uses a rotating spring to rip hairs out... quickly usually?... It's kind of like a very slow version of hot-wax hair removal. And it's EXTREMELY painful the first few times its used. That version was even more terrifying because it had a horrible tendency to pinch and rip skin. Modern ones use a rotating sort of 'tweezer' system that is a LOT less likely to grab skin, and tends to remove hairs quickly enough to not hurt nearly as much as the primitive versions. And yes, the reason I know this is because I use one. After the first several times, it basically stops hurting. The other great thing is you only need to do it every month or two :D

I must have been five years old and this game was on the family PC for some reason. It was completely impossible and I remember being terrified when I died. Never got out of the first couple of screens. Now I know it was literally impossible because it was the CD version! I never could figure out the name of the game until just now. Very cool, many very ancient memories coming back. Thanks for making the video

Love how Astro Chicken, just a useless time waste side game, has become the key component to speed running the game.

For all that a lot of it has not aged well at all, I do fondly remember a lot of this as a kid. "Casually glancing at the status bar, you realize you're in Space Quest XII." Some really great lines in there.

I’m just happy that there’s room in this world for a “Space Quest Historian”

It was an absolute joy and privilege to be part of this one. I've been a OneShortEye fan for a long time and his videos are infuriatingly well made. 😂

Space Quest XII: The writer's barely disguised fetish.

I'd like to think the Sequel Policeman at the arcade gets pulled aside by the owner for trying to harass a paying customer.

When Sierra ruled the world of adventure gaming. I remember playing this when I was 12, getting farther into the game but thinking "Was I supposed to do that?" Parts of this game had me laughing hysterically. The best was how you could ask for a job at the fast food restaurant in the mall while dressed as a woman, and after being denied for being female Roger will be shocked and call him a sexist pig.

Man I loved those old SQ games. This is fun, thanks for showin me that people are speed running this.

It’s been at least a decade since I played through this game all the way through, but the instant you mentioned “the WORST Part of Space Quest IV”, my mind instantly went to “That stupid floating sequence where you evade the Sequel Police”. That part is bad even when the Sequel Police *aren’t* zapping you instantly, so it’s nice to see that speedrunners found a way to cut that out of their attempts. A rare instance where putting up with RNG is actually to your benefit. Also, I find it interesting how many of these old Sierra games used the computer’s speed when it came to timed events. It probably made sense at the time, but it really ensured these games weren’t future-proofed - or at least until we could slow them down again via emulation. Even when I was a kid, I remember thinking it was unusual (for a Sierra game, at least) how King’s Quest III used a real-time clock to set up events as opposed to whichever speed setting you used.

omg ... I was a victim on the CD rom glitches when I was a very young man. I thought I was doing something wrong and just gave up ! Was confused when I picked it up again years later and it was so easy. Great to have the answers now :D

I was not aware of the The Space Quest Historian but he is everything I needed him be.

Yeah, that whole business with the laptop always seemed like it was poorly-implemented, considering you could just trial-and-error your way past the sentry droids. I've never been sure why they had such an extensive puzzle, with components strewn across basically the entire game, but then made it semi-optional. That's such a strange design choice.

I love your style of showing what the scenes could/should look like so seamlessly. Having usually never played these old games it always bugs me not knowing what exactly was skipped in some of these other speed run breakdowns.

Another great video, keep it up! A couple things not noted in the video: - the long code you're supposed to input, 6965847669, is ASCII for "EATLE". I suspect it was intended to be "EATME" but they got it slightly wrong... - the way Admiral__Jay avoids the droids in the supercomputer is not the only one, or even the quickest; it's also possible to go left to lure the droid out, head back into the corridor with the lasers, and return as the droid's heading out of the screen. This is slightly harder to execute, but I think it would save time. (Edit: the SQ4 TAS handles the droid in an even faster way, by switching screens at the exact same time the droid does. This is far more difficult in RTA than either of the other strategies, but not impossible.)

Great video! As a note, the problem with the Skate-o-Rama felt really familiar. I remember playing SQ6 and being completely stuck on the first part of the game, unable to continue, not even with walkthroughs. Then, years later I found out that the problem was that I was playing on a Pentium 233 Mhz, which meant that the internal clock of the computer was way faster than the intended 486, so a particular event played so fast, it was impossible to do. What a weird, specific problem.

Another brilliant video OneShortEye. It’s always a treat to see some of my favorite games from my childhood get a new look and make it that much more interesting. To be part of this one was a privilege. Again, great work, and keep it up.

I love the SQH segment, very informative.

I've never played these games. But it's rad because you explain the plot as the run goes on. So it's like a cool little story. Very rad.

11:10 Another interesting glitch I noticed in SQIV is when Roger is in the arcade room. When the time cops arrive walk down by the garbage can in the center bottom of screen get as close to it as possible. Wait for the cop to walk around the arcade, right when the cop walks up to Roger and begins to speak click the garbage can using the hand icon which triggers the audio to play. The cop will fire his gun, but to my surprise he will freeze allowing you to walk around and jump into the time vehicle. Quick and easy. No running around the arcade avoiding getting shot. I have tested this many times on various OS as I have played this game at least once a year for the past.... 30+ years. Enjoy! Still waiting for Space Ventures!......... I am in my 40's now..... would really like to play it before I die!

Ooh another OneShortEye video? Must be a good day

Dear OneShortEye, Make videos more often please. Sincerely, Chris

This channel is such a gem. One of my very favorites on youtube.

The KQ XLIII game on the computer is fantastic. SQ is so goofy.

Despite being born in 2003 this video brought back some weird nostalgia, I watched Dilandau3000's lets plays of the classic adventure games religiously as a kid and now I love these old, janky as hell, games.

literally rewatched all your content yesterday, glad to see a new upload from you!

Your videos are so insanely good. It is literally up there with summoning salt. Please keep up the amazing work!

Fell in love with your Sierra speedrun documentaries the moment I saw the KQ6 video ✨ top quality, labour of love and dedication. Thank you ✨

Oh, I love your videos. I never got to play any of these games, but I've always found them fascinating. But more than that, your videos always calm me for some reason. I have major anxiety issues, so I play this channel's videos in the background when I'm feeling stressed. Maybe that wasn't your intention, but I want to thank you all the same. I hope you'll keep making more!

These videos are so interesting, despite the fact that I despise these games gameplay-wise. I hope you will be creating more of them for a long time.

Always looking forward for your speedrun documentaries. Keep up the great work!

I have never played Kings Quest, or Space Quest, but... Man... I love this channel...

I think this might be the only floppy disk game I've ever watched someone speedrun Love the channel, by the way. Found you from the King's Quest video.

Every time someone mentions Space Quest, I check the Kickstarter page for the spiritual successor. Currently around 9 years overdue for many many different reasons. 9 years is also the amount of time between the first SQ and the sixth one.

Your videos are always so good! I somehow learn something new with each one!

Maaaan another OSE video. Keep up the amazing quality my man, love it!

My favorite game creator from my childhood plus the dulcet tones and sly wit of Shorty makes me very happy. A real pantload indeed. Great video sir!

Wow, this answered a 31 year old painful memory of never getting passed Skate O Rama. Earlier today I tried to play this again on Steam but it's so unfair and ridiculously difficult I gave up after ten minutes stuck in XII and watched this instead.

I remember watching the retsupurae of this years ago- it got me into dos games. I've always loved watching people play this game. Great video!

I get so excited when I see a new upload from you.

A copy of this came with the Creative CDROM drive we had with our IBM when I was a kid. Suffice to say I never got past the initial time warp scene and was so frustrated I didnt touch it again until decades later

These vids you put out are amazing. Love the style! Keep it up!

this is awesome, i love watching how they do things like these

Great run & analysis video! Thanks for uploading!

Wadda bunch of weirdos speedrunning old-school point-and-click adventures... I love it! 😁 - looking forward to more episodes!

I really love these videos, please keep it up !

Amazing video, reallly liked it, the way you talk, the attention to details, really loving it

I love these Sierra point and click videos, please never stop making these!

Hopelessly addicted to this channel

I like that they were self-aware about the copy protection. Like they know it's a hassle, but there's still a reason for it, so it's kind of needed.

Awesome video! Really enjoyed it.

Hehe not "shave"! Epiladys (?) basically had a spring wrapped into a loop like you see (I think that was pretty accurate); the spring rotated and ripped your hair out. They were horrific.

loving your videos man, great stuff :) unrelated but your MI video inspired me to start running monke islands, i've always loved the games but did not know about this community at all

20k subs already, keep going!

As someone who's never played these style of point-and-click adventure games, this game's humor actually might make me check it out.

Thanks for another awesome video! I love the Space Quest games!!

I loved this game as a kid. I remember being stuck in an arcade for months and couldn't progress, these games were incredibly hard before the internet. Eventually I triggered the right event somehow and moved on. It took me about a year of playing it off and on but I completed it.

I love this series. The comedy of it had me tickled every time. This explains one of my childhood mysteries as to why it was so darn difficult.

The game code running way too fast was a common problem back in the day. Properly written games that used the screen timing to sync worked fine with super fast clock speeds, but ones that went for maximum speed without syncing became unplayable (without special tools). One of my favorite games from back then was called "The Incredible Machine", where you had to construct a machine with given parts to accomplish a particular goal like "Put the ball through the hoop". But if you had a fast machine the game would run so fast that you couldn't see where your machine failed, making it unplayable. Here's what that game looked like: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/mtJhf9l3qc2nmaM.htmlsi=OVY0MWXoT7ia8mO5

yo great vid man. gotta love speedrun breakdowns

So happy that you upload. I was thinking: damn. Whens He gonna Upload again, and today is my Happy day !

one of my most nostalgic games of all time. my Dad was a computer programmer so our home PC was always top-spec...I spent YEARS in the skate-o-rama, trying absolutely everything I could, restarting the game, clicking on every object on every screen preceeding the galleria but could never beat it. in consequence I have so much fondness for the first half of SQ4, it's one of my all time favourites 👍

Another great documentary, awesome work!

I just wanna say, games like this were absolute peak for pixel art. Just gorgeous backgrounds, especially in SQ12.

Ooooh it’s a great day a new OneShortEye video!

I don't know these games and I don't much care for speedrunning, but your videos are really well done and entertaining as hell. Liked and subscribed, keep it up! =D

Love your videos. With the code for the door at the end I wondered if there was possibly a better number that would work. There are 106290 possible candidate codes that are smaller than the true code but would have an integer overflow that would register to 6965847669. It would be great if a code was something like 1111111. This might be easier than 26229 (Which is already not complicated). Sadly 26229 has 3 unique numbers in it and there are no codes with 2 or 1 unique number. The only benefit of a code like 4417141 is that all the numbers are on the same side of the keypad. With that said, it is two characters longer and would likely just lead to more errors and isn't worth the 0.02-0.1 second time save (If it even would save time). Here are the list of all candidate codes with 3 unique numbers between 26229 and 6965847669. [1] 4417141 5990005 14444149 21128821 33711733 58877557 71001717 73033333 93349493 98985589 [11] 99116661 99903093 113993333 171337333 183133813 212166261 266626677 322332277 337733237 377775733 [21] 389899893 433743477 449799797 475555445 479749749 557475445 558458485 633366133 666199669 676226677 [31] 711616117 744777333 752772725 777479797 797795957 798778997 813131381 855008885 881288821 933193333 [41] 959997557 961111669 988898933 995255925 999777909 1011050101 1100310133 1227712117 1413441141 1551656565 [51] 1991009909 2111727221 2119919221 2128111221 2292999797 2525521525 2998298229 3100010101 3133171317 3188811381 [61] 3313133173 3333449333 3339937397 3365365365 3373033077 3377030773 3434374773 3595593333 3636553333 3799737973 [71] 4044777077 4400440949 4433143413 4444481141 4471744117 4966999669 5111113333 5112555125 5522155125 5554595445 [81] 5558855285 5568685685 5595555445 5859599989 6161196661 6166111861 6226929269 6336636533 6599566965 6600550005 [91] 6626633333 6756656757 6922266229

Space Quest IV was my favorite game as a teenager. I bet I’ve beaten this game more than any other I’ve ever played. Thanks for the nostalgia!

This feels SO validating! I was crushed i couldnt figure out how to beat the CD version on my brand new computer 🤦‍♀️im glad i never called the 1900 hint line at $1 / minute!

wow! this is the hardcore of gamers wanting to play their games. respect 🙏

3:25 "Luke, I am your shuttle" *labored breathing*

I love how i, a brazilian with terible english, can understand every single of your videos, after months i still dont know how i get here, but iam so glad i did

Excellent as always!

Love Space Quest content!

One of my favorite games of all time. I don't know how many times I've replayed this gem !

11:18 Bad guy with the bad gun is a Ms Astro Chicken fan and thinks you're ok, and just here to play.

I love that there is a speed running community devoted to the sierra games.

Oh MAN my Saturday morning coffee just got SO much better.

Wow, talk about nostalgia! Space Quest was a gaming obsession of mine growing up... still have all my original boxes, disks _and_ the little cheat books that you'd buy from Sierra if you wanted _any_ chance of completing the game back in the 90's. I really enjoyed the zero hand-holding and quirky, self-aware humour & storylines in old RPGs because they encouraged you to understand the dev's mindset as much as the narrative... you'd get a feel for their twisted logic & it was twice as satisfying when you solved something because of it. Plenty of hours spent cursing those same devs though, when you got stuck at a scene requiring pixel-perfect execution! 😂

Speedrunning Space Quest is like fast forwarding through a comedy movie. You miss all the good parts.

Good shiz shorty! waiting for the next one already

I remember in 3rd grade (mid-80's) my school had a mandatory typing class. I was the only kid (or adult) to notice that when I used the newer computers, I typed 55 WPM, and when I used the old computers, I typed 80WPM. I realized there was "something funny" with the way computers kept track of time, and nobody understood why I always wanted the older ones. I wasn't gonna tell them.

Ahh, Space Quest, I remember playing the first one back in 1986.... I own all of them, on floppy disc, them and Kings Quest, Hero's Quest (Quest for Glory, they had to change the name for copyright reasons), Police Quest.... I loved all of those games from Sierra.

10:02 I actually had NO idea about the speed clock thing. I played all the Space Quest games back in the day and simply thought SQ4 was impossible. I never came close to finishing it.

Niiiiiiiiiiiiiiice! I wish you could upload lots more videos, they're so enjoyable

Great work as always! Almost at 20k subs... 👀

11:17 Ms. Astro Chicken became the prophecy of Flappy Bird.

Loved playing this game on my 286. I didn't speak English back then, and relied on a DOS dictionary to auto-translate a walkthrough for me. It made sense, but it was written in such hilariously bad language, reading it was more comedy than Space Quest itself.

13:24 MAN I love when games let you use your Numpad when there is one in game, it's a no-brainer. Deus Ex spoiled me with this feature because everytime there is a keypad in a game, I instinctively reach for the numpad. Sadly it's extremely rare for games to implement this.

Thats great man, I remember the time I had an Amiga and when this game came out it was clear that most adventure games were becoming more the territory for Harddisc and PC owners...the loading times and disk swapping...

The mall, the mall, the mall. Oh this place has bugs galore on the floppy version. You can first enter it in a impossible state because there are several objects that may not spawn in 😲 my first mall experience was one of these, where the atm card does not spawn and I had no idea I had missed an item either.

Great day, oneshorteye video, waiting for another about King quest

great video!! I don’t know if there’s anything interesting about Space Quest 2 speedrunning, but if there is, I’d love to see a video from you about it! Played it recently with my dad and it’s a fun one lol

Dude your contents really good for such a small channel

OneShortEye upload? You love to see it

If I'm understanding the Skate-O-Rama CD bug properly, basically, the progress in technology and computer speeds made triggering events go ludicrous and made it impossibly hard to complete. Sort of like how the AI in the Microscope Puzzle from The 7th guess became practically all-powerful because computers have become so much better at computing, which meant emulators had to make the processor speed run slower to make it manageable.