Why timers in Sierra games are so broken

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Denmark Space Quest Historian
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Space Quest I (1986)
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The Space Quest I remake — and other Sierra games from 1991-1996 — are so infamously plagued with timer problems that it's honestly a mystery how they ever got out the door in the first place. In this video, I take a look at why this happened, using the black sheep of the Space Quest family as an example.

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Space Quest I Statistics For Space Quest Historian

At present, Space Quest Historian has 327,345 views spread across 109 videos for Space Quest I, with the game making up over 3 days of published video on his channel. This is 11.62% of the total watchable video for Space Quest I on Space Quest Historian's YouTube channel.