Jump, you idiot! 😂 Space Quest III: The Pirates of Pestulon #shorts

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Published on April 2, 2023 6:00:18 PM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=saurKlAMdds

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Space Quest III (1989)

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Space Quest III: The Pirates of Pestulon Casual Playthrough (1989 DOS, Amiga, Macintosh, Atari ST), developed and published by Sierra On-Line, played during a previous Twitch stream. I have never played this adventure game before. This is near the beginning of the game when Roger's ship has been brought aboard a trash vessel, and he wakes up from his sleep pod, and now he's stuck on a conveyor belt with seemingly no way off. The game is especially challenging, as the interface uses minimal point-and-click features and instead relies on text parser and keyboard movements. This is a longplay first playthrough of the entire game. retro gaming, space quest 3 pc, space quest 3 deaths, space quest 3 playthrough, let's play space quest 3, space quest iii the pirates of peston, adventure games for pc, text parser games, sierra adventure games, best sierra adventure games, sierra online games, sierra online adventure games, point and click games, point and click adventure games, 80s adventure games, retro gaming pc,

Space Quest III: The Pirates of Pestulon is a 1989 graphic adventure game by Sierra On-Line, and the third game in the Space Quest series.

Roger Wilco's escape pod from the end of Space Quest II is floating in space until it is picked up by an automated garbage freighter. Finding a derelict spaceship amongst the freighter's garbage, Roger sets out to repair the Aluminum Mallard and leave the scow.

Roger visits a variety of locations, including a fast food restaurant called Monolith Burger and a desert planet called Phleebhut. At the latter, he encounters trouble, as Arnoid the Annihilator (an Arnold Schwarzenegger-like android terminator) persecutes him for not paying for a whistle acquired in Space Quest II. From information he picks up there and at Monolith Burger, Roger eventually uncovers the sinister activities of a video game company known as ScumSoft, run by the "Pirates of Pestulon".

Pestulon, a small moon of the volcanic planet Ortega, is covered in soft, moss-like vegetation, and dotted with twisted tree-like growths throughout. Elmo Pug, the CEO of ScumSoft, has abducted the Two Guys from Andromeda and is forcing them to design awful games.

Roger manages to sneak into the entrance of the supposedly impregnable ScumSoft building (an homage to the secret entrance of the shield generator from Return of the Jedi) and rescue the two programmers. He is discovered, and must battle Pug in a game that combines giant Mecha-style combat with Rock 'Em Sock 'Em Robots. After winning, Roger and the Two Guys escape. After fighting off several ScumSoft space ships, the trio realize that the warp drive is broken. After tinkering with it and no warp course set in, the trio are warped into a parallel dimension. In the game's conclusion, Roger delivers the two game designers to Sierra On-Line's president, Ken Williams, on Earth, before Roger departs the planet after being turned down for a janitorial job.

PC versions of the game support mouse movement and a new, heavily improved text parser. Mouse movement was still in a primitive state at the time of the game's release, so Roger is unable to automatically find his way around obstacles in the game world, instead stopping if he encounters a barrier. Computer mice were relatively new at the time, and Sierra's mouse movement would greatly improve in subsequent games.

Astro Chicken is an arcade minigame in Space Quest III. Gameplay consists of attempting to land a chicken on a trampoline. The mechanics of the game are similar to those of Lunar Lander, with the exception that the chicken rebounds unharmed if it strikes the trampoline too forcefully. Achieving a high score reveals a hidden distress message left by the Two Guys from Andromeda. The Astro Chicken theme music is a variation on Chicken Reel, a traditional folk song best known for its use in animated cartoons. Sierra released the Astro Chicken minigame as a demo to promote Space Quest III.

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