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Vohaul's Console Map (by Will Mallia)

You'll be in one of the hallways. Head west and keep going. You'll come across a ED-209-esque droid. You'll need to push the button on the doors before it comes at you, so type PUSH BUTTON on the blue walls with the orange lines and press Enter at the escape pods. From there, press Enter at one of the white buttons where the droid is (the right-most one will do) and run to the east before the droid catches up to you. Keep going to the east until you go through a flashing tunnel. You'll be back where you landed, and the droid will be gone. Thankfully, the escape pod will be open, and you can go back in there without having to press the button. Just make sure you have ENTER POD pre-typed when you return to that screen so the droid doesn't get you. When you enter the pod, the droid will leave you alone.

Interestingly, there is a 40-minute time limit once you reach this part. If you take more than 40 minutes to get out of here, YOU WILL DIE.

Once you are seated in the escape pod, LOOK PANEL. There will be a clearly marked launch button. PUSH LAUNCH BUTTON. You'll get out of Vohaul's asteroid base, but suddenly, you'll get an oxygen warning, and you'll have about five minutes of oxygen left. If you wait five minutes, YOU WILL DIE. If you WEAR OXYGEN MASK, you'll also find out that the tank is empty.

Look around, and you'll find a sleep chamber . Go up to the right end of the pod and OPEN CHAMBER. ENTER CHAMBER. The sleep chamber will seal automatically to preserve oxygen, and you'll drift aimlessly in space until someone finds you...which blows the door wide open for the third game.

You've just beaten Space Quest II with all 250 points!

Dilandau3000 plays Space Quest II: Vohaul's Revenge - Part 12 of 13

Just because we're small doesn't mean we can't do something.

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To get out of the glass jar, USE CUTTER. You'll cut an opening in the jar, which will fall to the counter. By looking around, you can find some vents to the back.

If you head west, Sludge Vohaul will see you and smack you with his fist, squashing you. YOU WILL DIE. Instead, move to the vent near the west entrance. CLIMB IN VENT. You'll enter the vent. By looking around, you'll find out that you are in Sludge Vohaul's life support system. You'll also see a sign. READ SIGN. You'll find out that there is a button for emergency shut-off. Go behind the pump and PRESS BUTTON to turn off the life support system. Go back to the vent and CLIMB OUT, then Sludge Vohaul will tell you that you have sealed your fate as he struggles to take his last few deaths. He then flips a switch on the far end of the console before dropping dead.

Head west. Go up to the on/off switch and PULL SWITCH. The nearby text screen says "Reduce or enlarge?" Obviously, you want to enlarge so you can return to your normal size. Walk onto the keyboard and TYPE ENLARGE. The text screen will say "Sequence has begun." Head back east and go back into the glass jar, and you'll return to normal size.

When you get back off the console, you'll find out that the clones are gone. One of the screens on the console is blinking. If you look at Sludge Vohaul, youll find out he is indeed dead. If you SEARCH VOHAUL, you'll find out that the letters "SHSR" are written in pen on the back of his left hand. (The letters are all one down from what they should be, which is the word "TITS.")

LOOK MONITOR. You'll find out that there is a launch countdown for the clones that is quickly going down. To abort the launch, type SHSR and press Enter or Return. This will abort the launch. Unfortunately, the monitor is also telling you that the asteroid base's orbit is decaying and that the temperature is at critical levels, that means you only have a limited time to get out. (Believe it or not, you can also type "TITS" as the password and you'll still get the abort.)

Take the stairs to the east. You'll be in a tubular passageway. Near where you came in is a box. LOOK BOX. You'll find out it is actually an oxygen mask receptacle. OPEN BOX to get the oxygen mask and close the box. Put on the oxygen mask. From here, follow the path. When you're almost past the second screen, a part of the glass tube will fracture from stress caused by the asteroid entering Labion's atmosphere (which you can see by looking around on this screen) and the air will be sucked out of the tube. If you do not have the mask on when the fracture forms, YOU WILL DIE.

Once you get through the second screen, you'll take off the mask as you enter another area of the asteroid.

Sunday, May 29, 2022

Dilandau3000 plays Space Quest II: Vohaul's Revenge - Part 11 of 13

In this entry, we finally meet Sludge Vohaul...

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If you wait long enough, somebody will fart and you'll get some text.

Before you leave the stall - and the bathroom - GET TOILET PAPER.

Keep going west from the restrooms. You'll reach the elevator. Type ONE to go to Level 1.

From here, head back to your shuttle and head south. This time, you'll have a way to get out of that acid trap. When you trip it, go to the left and PUT PLUNGER ON WALL when you're about to run out of floor. You'll use the plunger to stick to the barrier and hang above the acid trap. If you do this too soon, Roger will let go too soon and YOU WILL DIE. When the floor returns, LET GO. You'll be back on the floor.

From here, you can go back, or you can explore further. LOOK CEILING in the trap area. You'll find some fixtures that look like sprinklers. Remember that for later. For now, if you go all the way to either side, you'll be chased by a robot. You can only be chased by one robot at a time. If the robot runs into you, you will be shocked to death. YOU WILL DIE.

Before you go anywhere, stay in the trap area. PUT PAPER IN BASKET, PUT BASKET DOWN, then LIGHT PAPER. This turns on the sprinklers. This will not only extinguish the fire, but it will also kill the robots on both sides by short-circuiting them. From here, you are free to go to either side. Go east.

To the east is Vohaul's secret chamber, where Sludge Vohaul is seated before a large console while surrounded by tubes containing evil insurance salesmen clones. Sludge Vohaul will laugh at you, and tells Roger to watch the downfall of his civilization.

Sludge Vohaul is obviously connected to life support, but if you approach him, you'll be zapped by a laser into micro-particles, shrunken down and molecularly reconstructed into a glass jar. Amazingly, Sludge Vohaul decides to keep you as a conversation piece instead of killing you outright.

Dilandau3000 plays Space Quest II: Vohaul's Revenge - Part 10 of 13

Now that we're in Sludge Vohaul's asteroid base, we have a lot of exploring to do...

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While you're inside the janitor's closet, LOOK. You'll find a plunger. GET PLUNGER. From here, continue west, and you'll find another elevator. If you see the floor cleaning droid again, run. When you get into the elevator, Type FIVE.

You'll be at Level 5. Start heading east. Two screens in, you'll find another door on the background wall. If you look around, you'll find out that there are some kind of cages around here and that these holding cells are not well kept. If you enter the door here and LOOK, you'll find a small wastebasket and a pair of crusty work overalls. GET BASKET. You'll soon get a message making fun of how you can carry so many things. If you GET OVERALLS, Roger will find out that they are dirty and do not fit, and tosses them back onto the floor only for something else to drop. LOOK FLOOR. You'll find a lighter. GET LIGHTER.

The cage east of the door contains a creature. If you're too close to the cage as you're passing by, the creature will crush you and YOU WILL DIE. Stay at the bottom of the path next time.

On the next screen to the east, a cage will open. Keep going east. Otherwise, the xenomorph that comes out will stun you, but not kill you. However, the kiss actually kills you at the end of the game. Yes, a facehugger comes out of your chest. YOU WILL DIE AT THE END OF THE GAME. Instead, keep heading east, get in the elevator, type FOUR and press Enter before the alien gets you.

Back at Level 4, head west. Once again, watch out for the floor cleaner and run in the other direction to get it to disappear if it shows up. Two screens east, there is a door. PUSH BUTTON to get in the door. LOOK. You'll find a glass cutter. GET CUTTER. From here, continue west. You'll find bathrooms. The men's is to the left; the women's is to the right, and each have their own button. Regardless of which one you enter, you'll find out it is a unisex bathroom.

If you USE LIGHTER in the bathroom, you will blow up the bathroom and YOU WILL DIE. So don't do it.

Instead, go to the third stall. OPEN DOOR, then CLOSE DOOR. SIT DOWN. Roger Wilco will use the toilet. If you stay inside the stall and type LOOK, you'll get a description for the inside of the bathroom stall. You can also READ WALLS to read messages at random, as well.

Saturday, May 28, 2022

Dilandau3000 plays Space Quest II: Vohaul's Revenge - Part 9 of 13

We're free...almost! We need to find out how this shuttle works and then get to Sludge Vohaul so we can stop him once and for all.

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With the power to the shuttle on, LOOK DIAL. You'll find out that the Attitude dial is set to HAC - Horizontal Attitude Control). You'll want it see to VAC - Vertical Attitude Control. To do that, TURN DIAL. You'll see the dial to VAC. PUSH THRUSTER BUTTON. This will ignite the ascent thrusters. PULL THROTTLE. Finally, you're able to take off. You'll look at the monitor, which tells you what forward and back does in Vertical Control. Press a key, then just sit there and you'll leave the planet.

If you type "WHO", the game will tell you the name that you gave the game at the very beginning.

You'll soon be told that adequate attitude has been achieved. After looking at the monitor again, press a key to find out you're in space. TURN DIAL. This will turn HAC on. The monitor will show you the controls for Horizontal Control. PUSH THROTTLE. Sludge Vohaul will show up on the display screens and tell you that he has taken control and that you will be visiting him again. You'll have no choice but to wait it out until you see Vohaul's Asteroid. Once you see it, you're in Sludge Vohaul's fortress whether you want to be in there or not.

Subterannean Tunnels Map (by Will Mallia)

You'll land in the vehicle bay. If you head to the south and go to the sides, you'll be trapped, and the floor below you will give way from the right. There is sulphuric acid below, and you'll have nothing to help you. YOU'RE DEAD.

Head to the west instead, and watch your step or else you will fall to your death. Enter the elevator, then LOOK ELEVATOR. You'll notice the digital read-out reading "LEVEL 1" as well as a rectangular panel. LOOK PANEL. You'll find a vertical row of four button as well as some small engraving at the bottom of the panel. If you READ ENGRAVING, you'll get a completely useless message stating that this lift was made by Bobco Lift Division, a subsidiary of Bobco, Inc., the makers of Nad's Hamster Tape.

LOOK BUTTONS. The buttons have words next to them. In order, they read "One," "Three," "Four," and "Five." Just type the number, and you'll go there. There is no button two.

Go to Level 3. You'll notice that a security camera is watching you from the ceiling. Head west. If you see a floor cleaning droid, go back to the elevator and hide there, then wait for the floor cleaning droid to pass by before moving on. It will be gone by the time you go to the next screen, so keep going west.

You'll eventually find a door on the side wall. Go up to the door and PUSH BUTTON. You'll find out that this is a janitorial closet. In case the floor cleaning droid shows up again, hide here so it doesn't kill you.

Dilandau3000 plays Space Quest II: Vohaul's Revenge - Part 8 of 13

Now that we know that we can die in this cave, let's not do that.

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Labion Launch Site Map (by Will Mallia)

Now that we know that the left fork leads to death, let's try the right fork. This time, you'll find a whirlpool. Roger Wilco will have no choice but to be sucked in.

On the other side of the whirlpool, you'll be back in the open again. Interestingly, there is a face where the waterfall is.

Wade to the east to reach a clearing. The only way out is through a path to the north, but you don't want to do that. Instead, BLOW WHISTLE. This will blow the whistle you got through the mail, and it allows you to call a Labion Terror Beast which tears through the rock wall like Taz the Tasmanian Devil. If you do nothing, he will attack you. YOU WILL DIE. THROW PUZZLE. This throws the Cubix Rube puzzle at the Labion Terror Beast, who reaches down, grabs it and examines the Cubix Rube, leaving him completely distracted. Just walk behind him and into the entrance he made, then GRAB ROCK. You'll get a rock you'll need later. From there, go north.

To the north is the landing pad. There will be a guard, and you'll need to sneak past him. He will look over the edge often, so you'll have to be quick and careful. You can throw the rock as a distraction, or you can sneak

However, the solution that gives you the most points is the most violent: SLING ROCK AT GUARD. This allows Roger Wilco to sling the rock at the guard with the athletic supporter and hit him in the head, knocking him over the edge and onto the ground. From here, you're free to move around. Don't even bother searching the guard; you'll find nothing.

Go up to the door on the right side of the landing pad and INSERT CARD. You'll take an elevator to the top of the launch pad, and from here, you can take the shuttle. Be careful not to fall off the launch pad, as YOU WILL DIE. Get to the right behind the shuttle and OPEN DOOR to open the hatch. From here, LOOK, then LOOK PANEL to look at the instrument panel. PUSH POWER to turn on the shuttle.

Friday, May 27, 2022

Dilandau3000 plays Space Quest II: Vohaul's Revenge - Part 7 of 13

In this entry, we explore a cave. This is the most interesting part of Labion, mostly because it's a breath of fresh air compared to aboveground.

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Subterannean Tunnels Map (by Will Mallia)

Once you land on the ledge to the left, go left and enter the cave. By going west, you'll soon become a pair of light blue floating eyeballs, but you don't want to venture too far doing that. HOLD GEM. You'll be able to light up the cave, but you'll also hear a small shriek and the sound of many footsteps moving away from you.

Once you go all the way west, the ground below your feet will disappear and you will fall. You'll end up outside where a bunch of rocks are, and you'll meet some of the little pink creatures that you've met earlier on this planet. Thanks to the translator, you will know that they will tell you to follow them before leaving. Before you go anywhere, GET GEM to get your glowing gem back, then go south. You'll meet their leader, who thanks you for saving their friend from the hunters by letting you stay here as long as you need to and to just say the word if you need to leave to be directed to the only way out for someone of your size. Once you leave, however, they will have to seal the exit behind them for their own protection.

You can look and talk to the pink creatures with LOOK PEOPLE, but it doesn't do much and they just giggle. If you type SAY THE WORD, the pink creatures will move out of the way to reveal a ladder in the ground. Once you go through here, you can't go back, so make sure you have the gem before you leave.

Go down the ladder. It will be dark again. If you wait long enough, you'll hear an inhuman guttural moan echo through the caves. This is the cave squid, and it will get a hold of you if you go the wrong way. HOLD GEM IN MOUTH. You'll be able to light the area up. (If you just type "HOLD GEM," you won't be able to do anything.) Climb down the ladder, and make sure you save your game. Once you climb down, go right, then climb down the first ladder you see. At the bottom, go right, then climb down the next ladder. Go right again, then climb down the next ladder. At the bottom, go left. Skip the first two ladders you see, and go down the third one. When you're able to go right, do so. Keep going in that direction, and you'll be out.

You'll then end up in a cave with luminous water and waterfalls, and Roger Wilco will put the glowing gem back in his pocket. Wade east through the water and you'll soon come across a swiftly moving river. follow the path. If you take the left fork, you'll die as soon as you drop down the waterfall.

Thursday, May 26, 2022

Dilandau3000 plays Space Quest II: Vohaul's Revenge - Part 6 of 13

In this entry, we overpower our captor, but the danger is far from over.

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To get out of the cage, you'll need to get the key of of him and also get the upper hand on him. CALL HUNTER. This will cause the hunter to move closer. From there, THROW SPORE before he opens the cage. You will throw the spore at the nearby hunter to paralyze him. SEARCH HUNTER. You'll find a key. If you just throw the spore without getting him near, he will be too far away to get the key from him, and he will immediately kill you when he gets back up.

From here, GET KEY, then UNLOCK CAGE and OPEN DOOR. Go to the rope to the west of the cage and GET ROPE, then get behind the bushes to the north and head north to get out of here.

You'll see the landing pad from earlier as well as a shuttle taking off from it. If you head too far north or stay here too long, Vohaul's troops will shoot you down and kill you, so don't do that. Instead, head east and go back to the chasm where you had to knock the dead log down and use the rope to go down the chasm.

Do not tie the rope to the tree stump; it will break. Instead, CLIMB LOG, then TIE ROPE TO LOG. You'll tie the rope to the log and give yourself a path straight down. CLIMB DOWN. You'll find a cave to the west and a hungry creature to the east. If you press F6, you will release your grip on the rope, and if you do it now, YOU WILL DIE. Instead, go further down the rope and SWING. Let go of the rope with F6 when you have enough momentum to reach the ledge but before the creature grabs you. Wait for the creature to grab you twice, then let go you when you head to the left. You'll land near the cave.

On the third grab attempt, the creature will grab you. Make sure that doesn't happen.

Dilandau3000 plays Space Quest II: Vohaul's Revenge - Part 5 of 13

Well, it was only a matter of time before all that exploration got us into trouble.

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If you try to go through the swamp to the east, you'll get the attention of some sort of creature as you go east, and you'll soon get eaten once you're on the second screen. YOU WILL DIE.

Instead, RUB BERRIES ON BODY. The game will tell you that you now smell like a walking ammonia inhalant. If you go through the swamp now, the creature will try to eat you only to retch and gag. You can now continue east, but you'll have to swim once you reach the deeper end of the swamp. HOLD BREATH to go underwater, then use the arrow keys to get through the very simple path. When you see the light on the west end, go up towards it to enter a grotto where you can find a glowing gem on top of a boulder. Go up tot he gem. GET GEM. If you're not fast enough on the way, you will suffocate and die. From here, go back into the water, HOLD BREATH, and swim back. Go all the way up to get back to the surface, then head east again.

On the third screen, you'll soon be able to get on dry land. Head east, and you'll soon come across a fissure. If you walk into the fissure, YOU WILL DIE. So you'll need to find a way to cross it.

If you go up to the tree near the fissure and LOOK TREE, you'll find out it is dead and that there is no foliage and that the bark must have fallen off years ago. CLIMB TREE. You'll find out that the tree if free of the slick secretions some of the other trees generate, and you'll crack the tree, turning it into a makeshift bridge. Move to the east to get off the log, then go east.

From here, make your way to the east. You'll fall for a hidden snare trap, then Roger Wilco will pass out and have a dream where he is Larry Laffer in the first Leisure Suit Larry game. When he comes to, he will find himself in a cage, and that his captor is sitting near a fire.

By looking around, you'll find out you are in a clearing surrounded by large, smooth rock formations on three sides, that there is a fire and that a rope sits on a nearby boulder. Meanwhile, you're obviously in a cage as potential dinner.

Wednesday, May 25, 2022

Dilandau3000 plays Space Quest II: Vohaul's Revenge - Part 4 of 13

In this entry, our adventures through Labion continue.

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If you check your inventory, you'll find that you have an order form, which you've had since the beginning of the game. READ FORM. You'll find out it's an order form removed from a magazine for a free Labion Terror Beast Mating Whistle that is ready to be mailed.

Go up to the mailbox and MAIL FORM. An object will drop into the tray at the base of the mailbox. If you LOOK TRAY, you'll find the whistle. GET WHISTLE.

If you want, you can walk south off the cliff where the mailbox is as a shortcut.

The blue growths on the ground look like spores or pods. If you get close enough to them and LOOK SPORES, you'll find they are loosely attached to the ground. If you walk into them, it will release a fine powder into the air that will completely paralyze you. It will eventually wear off and you will be able to move again. Get close enough to the spores without releasing the powder and GET SPORES. You'll be needing these later.

Go north from here. You'll find a small creature picking berries from a bush, but a weird-looking brain bush stands between you and the creature. LOOK MONSTER. You'll see that it appears to be some kind of overdeveloped root with a pulsating growth near the middle connected to several meters of root-like appendages. If you walk into the roots, the monster will immediately consume and kill you.

You'll have to go through the maze by walking through it without walking onto the roots and saving often. When you make it to the archway in the upper-left corner of the maze, you can just walk past it automatically. Roger Wilco will automatically duck underneath the arch.

Go ahead and look at the berries if you want, then GET BERRIES when you are near them. You can try to eat them, but the pungent scent will make Roger change his mind.

Now you'll have to make your way back. Once again, travel the maze without touching the roots, and save often!

Go south to leave, then head east, then east again behind the bushes to the north. There will be a swamp and a creature rubbing something on his body.

Dilandau3000 plays Space Quest II: Vohaul's Revenge - Part 3 of 13

Just when all is lost...dumb luck is achieved. Too bad dumb luck won't help you survive if you do the wrong things, and there are plenty of ways to annihilate yourself here.

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Labion Forest

Orbital Station 4 Map (by Will Mallia)

Thanks to dumb luck, you're still a free man, albeit elsewhere.

If you type in LISTEN, you'll find out that the high pitched beep that you are hearing is from the wrecked hovercraft. If you LOOK IN HOVERCRAFT, you'll find out that there is a button next to a flashing light emitting the beep. PRESS BUTTON. The light will go dark and the beep will stop sounding. Good thing you did that, because that was a homing beacon and you would have been recaptured if you waited too long on the screen you crash landed in without turning it off.

Go up to the guard on the ground and SEARCH GUARD. You'll find a magnetic keycard. GET CARD.

There is a conspicuous set of pixels made to look like a square. If you go near it and type TRAP, the game will make a joke. If you walk onto the square, however, YOU WILL DIE.

You won't be able to head west, so go east to see some giant purple mushrooms. If you walk up to the mushrooms, you'll be eaten. YOU WILL DIE.

Go back west, then go behind the shrubs and head north. You will hear a "twang" followed by a high pitched shriek to the east. If you go up to the big tree to the north and CLIMB TREE, you will stick to the tree and a bunch of insects will eat you. YOU WILL DIE.

Instead, head east. You'll find the critter from earlier hanging upside down in a snare trap. Go up to the critter. UNTIE CREATURE. The critter will run off, but not without giving you a long glance. Sadly, you cannot take the rope for the snare trap. The creature will have headed east, but you cannot follow it in that direction.

While you are in the jungle, you may get a prompt telling you that you can hear a hovercraft not unlike the one you wrecked in. If you spend too much time on the screen afterwards without finding a spot where you cannot easily be spotted, the hovercraft will show up, you will be shot at, and YOU WILL DIE. If you can somehow hide behind a big tree or something, the hovercraft will pass by and you will go unharmed.

Go back to the big tree and head north, then head to the north end of the screen and head west. You will find a mailbox out of nowhere.

Tuesday, May 24, 2022

Dilandau3000 plays Space Quest II: Vohaul's Revenge - Part 2 of 13

Somebody is not happy that we saved the world in the first game, and in this entry, we meet that somebody.

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In the airlock chamber, go up to the uniform on the left and SWITCH CLOTHES. From here, you can look at the lockers, but there is nothing interesting about them. If you OPEN LOCKER, then look at it, you'll open a locker and find your cubix rube puzzle and an athletic supporter. GET RUBE. GET SUPPORTER. CLOSE LOCKER.

If you look at your inventory, you'll find that you have two items: an order form and a dialect translator. Keep these in mind for later.

Walk up to the door to the west and it will open. Keep going west and you'll enter the transportation control room, where your boss tells you to go straight to the shuttle bay while making it clear that he is about to fire you. He also sends a command to the transportation officer to make sure you go over there...and nowhere else.

You can talk to the people here, but they will tell you to get moving and that you also owe them twenty buckazoids.

To get moving, walk onto the part of the floor with the yellow and black stripes. This is a platform that will take you to the pneumatic transport tube. Walk into the hole with the red wall inside, and you'll be be taken to the shuttle bay.

Once you reach the shuttle bay, you can look at the shuttle, and if you walk down the stairs, you can look at the refueler. To enter the shuttle, walk up the stairs that are underneath it. Roger will go inside only to get beaten up by two guys inside to the point of unconsciousness.

Time will pass, and when Roger comes to, he finds out that he is being held hostage by the two goons from before. Roger will soon make out a rather large man connected to a life support machine. This is Sludge Vohaul, the genius behind the Star Generator back when it was still in its concept stages. (The Vohaul from the data cartridge in the last game was Slash Vohaul, meaning that Sludge is a different person.) He wanted it to be his war weapon, but scientists decided it was better used saving lives rather than destroying them, which he considers a waste of technology. He knows that Roger ruined his Sarien operation to make Xenon pay for that they did to him, and wants to make sure that Roger is not around to foil his next plan. That plan: infest Xenon with thousands of genetically engineered door-to-door life insurance salesmen. He originally planned to kill Roger, but he had a change of heart, and would rather watch him suffer in his forced labor mines in Labion.

From there, an injection renders Roger unconscious, and he is loaded onto a shuttle out of Vohaul's massive asteroid fortress. You'll then land on Labion and be ushered to a hovercraft taking you to the mines. On the way there, however, the platform falls due to a lack of fuel, and the two soldiers (who look like something out of Planet of the Apes) argue before the platform crashes to the ground. You survive, but the guards do not.

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

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.

Tuesday, July 2, 2019

Dilandau3000 plays Space Quest I: Roger Wilco in the Sarien Encounter (VGA) - Part 17 of 17

...and now, the stunning conclusion to the VGA remake of Space Quest 1!

Deltaur

From here, leave the weapons room. Stand above the guard standing in front of the Star Generator on the lower deck and drop the gas grenade on him. If you look at the now-downed guard, you will notice there is a remote control device on the guard's belt. Go all the way down to where the Star Generator is and...oops. Roger trips. You lose your helmet, and Roger just looks forward, dumbfounded, at the cleaning robot who picks up the helmet and takes it away. If the Sariens see you, they're going to shoot you.

Go to the inventory and click on the laser gun, and keep it in your inventory. If you see a Sarien, shoot them. You'll get points for doing it at least once, and more than likely, you'll have to. At least they're crappy shots, and they won't hit you right away, giving you just enough time to kill them.

At the Star Generator, pick up the remote control off the stunned guard by using the hand icon on him, then use it on the Star Generator. From there, use the hand icon on the blinking light on the button of the Star Generator and input the code 5454, followed by Enter. The self-destruct will be engaged, and you'll only have five minutes - and five kilometers - to get away. From here, equip your gun again and make your way out.

By the way, on the screen with the Star Generator, you may see a blue space satellite-like object fly by. If you look at it with the eye icon, it says "Da Cnythuk." Sputnik.

Go down the elevator to the west, then shoot the guard and go into the elevator he was guarding. You'll find the captain's personal escape pod. Get in with the hand icon. You're outta here, and if you've done everything in this guide, you'll have the maximum 201 points! Back on Xenon, you'll be presented the coveted Golden Mop, a symbol of pride and accomplishment to janitors everywhere and be forever known as the Hero of Xenon. Also, the guy presenting the award looks like King Graham. Weird. But you've done it! You've won!

Dilandau3000 plays Space Quest I: Roger Wilco in the Sarien Encounter (VGA) - Part 16 of 17

We've found the Star Generator...but now what?

Deltaur

Head east. You'll find the Star Generator! However, there is a big, huge Sarien guard standing in front of it. You won't be able to do anything...yet.

Go back, then go west. Take the elevator to the upper level, then head east. You'll walk past the cleaning droid and over the Star Generator over to the Weapons Dispensary, which is looked after by a bored robot with an IQ of 4000 (who is based on Marvin the Paranoid Android from the Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy series). If you talk to him, he brings up what you did at Ulence Flats. If you try to go behind the counter, he will kill you and you will die after an anvil suddenly falls on you. Instead, show him the ID card you got when you got your Sarien disguise, then wait for him to enter the other room. Go behind the counter and grab a gas grenade, then get out. You'll also get a laser pistol from the robot. If you're impatient, he will shoot you if he sees you go behind the counter, and you will die.

Monday, July 1, 2019

Dilandau3000 plays Space Quest I: Roger Wilco in the Sarien Encounter (VGA) - Part 15 of 17

In order to get around the Sariens, you'll have to get one of their uniforms. Once you do, you'll have an easier time getting around without getting shot.

Deltaur

There will be a red trunk in the middle of the next room. If you go into the room to the right, you will be shot at, so you'll have to use the trunk to get past the guard. You can either use the army knife on the trunk to place yourself inside and be carried off elsewhere, or you can use the hand icon to push the trunk to the air vent so that you can open it up with the army knife to crawl through the vents.

If you go through the air ducts, you'll be up able to go up and down floors. Go up one floor, then use the hand icon on the vent grill to kick it open and get out. (If you used the army knife on the trunk and jumped in, you'd be carried to this room.) Open the laundry machine with the hand icon, and Roger will go for the helmet only to go in. A Sarien will throw his uniform in there, then you'll be spun around. When it stops, you'll have a complete disguise on and ready to go as soon as you come out. Unfortunately, you'll lose everything except for your data cartridge. Also, an ID card will fall on the floor. Be sure to take it.

From here, go through the door. The Sariens will not mess with you now that you're in uniform. Sometimes they even salute, so it appears you are wearing the uniform of a superior officer. Head south, then head east. Strangely, you can look at some of the things below and in the room to the side, but not all. Enter the doorway to the north. If you want, get in the elevator to go to the lower level. Go south, and you'll be at the cartridge reader where you could have gotten shot at earlier. (You can read the data cartridge here, even though you had the chance to read it earlier.) From here, go west. You'll have gone in a circle. Take the elevator, and you'll be on another level of the Deltaur.

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After flying out of Kerona, we've made it to the Deltaur. Now to get in without getting killed...

Ulence Flats

Head back to the Drallion Cruiser you just bought with your new droid. Get in the Cruiser, and you'll head into space. Some guy will show up wanting to know where you're going with his ship far too late, then the time pod from the fourth game shows up. You'll achieve escape velocity, then the touch pad will show up when the droid asks where you want to go. This is where the manual comes in, but if you don't have it, it's the following buttons: left button on first row, center button on first row, first button on second row, center button on third row, right button on first row. Anything else will either not take you anywhere or cause death by asteroid.

Deltaur

If you use the right code, however, you'll speed past an asteroid belt safely. The droid will then find a ship, but it just so happens to be the Deltaur, a Sarien battle cruiser. When the droid tells you to get out, say no. Roger will exit the ship and put the jetpack on. (If you didn't have it, you'll drift off into space and die.) From there, he will find a door. If you leave this screen by going south, the gunners at the cannon will kill you and you will die. You can also die for taking too long, as the jetpack will run out of fuel and you will drift off into space. You will die.

Instead, use the hand icon on the handle to the left. Roger will automatically go in, and the jetpack will overheat, immediately catch fire and stop working. The decontamination unit will scan you. Hide to the right of the door. A high-tech fire droid will show up with a bucket of water, and this is your chance to zip through the door while it's still open to enter the next room.

Sunday, June 30, 2019

Dilandau3000 plays Space Quest I: Roger Wilco in the Sarien Encounter (VGA) - Part 13 of 17

It kinda sucks that there is a possibility that kids won't get the "Droids B Us" joke in the 21st century.

Ulence Flats

If you take the rocket with the woman painted on it, however, you'll be able to get it for 144 buckazoids. If you look at it, you'll learn that it appears to be a Drallion cruiser, known for it durability and reliability. Give the buckazoids to Tiny. then get in with the hand icon. He'll will tell you that you will need a droid to help you fly it. This is important; if you try to fly it, you won't be able to do anything.

Head to the east and go to Droids B Us. Further to the east is the entrance. Go in, and you'll meet the salesman. Give him the coupon, and you'll get 20% off any previously owned robots. The preview screen cycles through the robots (the YX-10 is the same one from Lost In Space, the SUX-9000 is a reference to the fourth game, and the Dalick is obviously a Dalek reference for the Doctor Who fans), and the one you want is the NAV-201 (which you can get for 36 buckazoids). Give the buckazoids to the salesman as soon as it is on the preview screen again, then you'll get your NAV-201 at the back door.

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Now that we have a bunch of money, let's try to buy a spaceship so we can get off this rock.

Ulence Flats

Head to the back of the Rocket Bar and use the hand icon on the pile of ash to find more buckazoids if you need them.

To the west of the Rocket Bar is a used spaceship lot. Tiny the salesman will try to sell you the spaceship in front of you for 99 buckazoids. Give the salesman the 99 buckazoids, then get in the spaceship by using the hand icon on the ladder. Roger will get the feeling that there is something rather unique about it, and when he turns it on, you'll find out it is a drill bit that goes underground. Roger will get out and climb out of the hole in time, and Tiny will try to lie his way out. You can't get your money back, but you'll still get 70 buckazoids credit on another spaceship.

Head north from here, and the salesman will try to show you his other used spaceships. There will be two spaceships: a blue saucer that's too small and too old. The other one is a ship with a picture of a human woman in a blue bikini on the front. If you take the first one, you will fly off only to crash in the distance and die.

Saturday, June 29, 2019

Dilandau3000 plays Space Quest I: Roger Wilco in the Sarien Encounter (VGA) - Part 11 of 17

...and now for the slots. Get ready to save and load constantly; it's the only way you're gonna get that money.

Ulence Flats