Dilandau3000 plays Space Quest II: Vohaul's Revenge - Part 1 of 13

After the events of the first game, Roger Wilco is once again an absolute loser.

That's about to change.

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In the events of the last game, Roger Wilco became a hero after he foiled the Sariens' plot to rule the galaxy with the Star Generator and returned the Star Generator technology into safe hands. Unfortunately, time never stands still, and Roger Wilco is back to being a janitor on Xenon Orbital Station 4 after the excitement and glory of his heroism, which has since died down.

Xenon Orbital Station 4

Map (by Will Mallia)

A shuttle lands on Orbital Station 4. From here, you get to type in your name, up to eighteen characters. Roger Wilco's name was not exactly Roger Wilco's name yet (that wouldn't be until the third game), so you have the liberty of naming him something else here. If you leave it blank, you'll be named "Roger Wilco," anyway. However, if you do leave it blank, there is a glitch in the game that makes your name blank when you save and restore.

The game starts with Roger Wilco sweeping outside of the station while wearing a spacesuit to remove construction debris and space dust. Roger soon gets a message on his wrist watch, and when he takes, the broom flies away into the vacuum of space. (That was the third one this week!)  From here, you have control.

Just like in the original EGA version of the game, you'll need to use the arrow keys to move and you'll have to type in your commands with the keyboard. LOOK WATCH. You'll look at your watch. If you LOOK LIGHT, you'll find out that you have a call waiting. If you look at an individual button, the game tells you to press a button or press F10 to leave the watch screen. 

You can type in H, C or T on this screen to press a button. Pressing H gives you your horoscope, which tells you to keep up the good work as you get the big promotion you think you deserve and not to take any wooden buckazoids. The T button tells you the current time and temperature. Since you're in outer space right now, it's cold. -47 degrees Celsius, however, is equivalent to -52.6 degrees Fahrenheit, or 226.15 degrees Kelvin. In reality, space is -270.45 Celsius, which is -454.81 degrees Fahrenheit, or 2.7 degrees Kelvin.

The C button lets you take the call. You'll get a call from your boss, telling you to head to the shuttle that just landed as one of the passengers got space sick on the way down before chewing you out for not being done an hour ago. The call then ends. You can then leave the screen with F10.

First of all, do not go to the right. YOU WILL DIE. THE BOLD UPPERCASE TEXT LIVES. Instead, walk into the background wall. You'll be able to move to the red panel on the "ceiling," which takes you to the airlock chamber. You'll then be decontaminated.