Space
Quest 1 Cameo
Appearances EGA version
The
Blues Brothers have a cameo appearance in the Ulence Flats bar.
They can sometimes be found on stage, performing their act. However,
it's random when they appear. ZZ-Top also appears.
 In
version 1.0X you could type "Ken" in the first screen
of the Arcada (referring to Ken Williams, the big boss of Sierra
in those days). Ken would walk into the screen and complain that
the game was behind schedule. This does NOT work with version 2.2.
Typing "Ken" an additional time will produce: "Dave?
Dave's not here." More information about the difference between
version 1.0X and 2.2 can be found elsewhere on this page.
When
you press the "don't press" button inside the escape pod,
you wind up in King's Quest 1. Next you'll read about Ken and Roberts
Williams (founders of Sierra) discussing "those Space Quest
players".
Space
Quest 1 Cameo
Appearances VGA version
The
Xenonian man who awards you with the Golden Mop in the ending sequence
is none other than King Graham from King's Quest.
The
Warbird from Star Trek pops up occasionally when you select the
wrong coordinates for your ship. It also appears during the introduction
sequence.
The
bar on Ulence Flats has both the Blues Brothers and ZZ-Top. Madonna
performs sometimes too, accompanied by the very flitting remark
when using the tongue icon: "Her taste in clothes is almost
as bad as her taste in music." Scott Murphy adds: "The
ZZ Top thing was a problem for us. Somehow after a couple of years
they found out about their satirical cameo appearance. Even though
we didn't portray them in any bad light, someone there had no sense
of humor about it. We then got one of those real solid envelopes
in the mail with return address overloaded with names of supposed
importance, at least in their eyes. The policy decision at Sierra
was that it is easier to make a change to the game rather than go
to court and spend a bunch of shark money (legal fees -ed) even
if we were found to be within our rights. We do have free speech
in this country, but it ain't cheap." Check out the SQ1VGA
funfacts section on this page for additional information.
When
leaving Ulence Flats, the time pod from Space Quest 4 pops up.
The
droid in the armory aboard the Deltaur, who supplies you with your
laser gun, is Marvin, the ever-popular paranoid android with super
intelligence from Douglas Adams' "Hitchhikers Guide to the
Galaxy".
The
triple-breasted hooker from Eroticon VI (another Hitchhicker's Guide
to the Galaxy reference) is sitting in the bar.
On
the screen of the bar entrance you can see the nose of a "Star
Trek: TNG shuttle" sticking out from behind the bar.
The
Droids-B-Us view screen contains a lot of spoofs. Here's some:
- The Dalek robots from BBC's "Doctor Who"
- The Lost in Space babysitter droid
- "Max" is the Maximillian droid from "The Black
Hole"
- There's an Arnoid arm on the counter from Space Quest 3.
- The head on the counter is described as an "Ultron-17".
Ultron is a robot character from a Marvel comic and looks exactly
like the head in SQ1VGA.
- The DEF-TECH droid is the Riflemen mech from Battletech.
- The HU-1D droid is "Huey" from the movie Silent Running.
- The robot working as store droid for Droids-B-Us is Robbie from
the classic science fiction movie "Forbidden Planet".
When
pressing the "don't touch" button in the escape pod you'll
not wind up at the Castle of Daventry as was the case with SQ1EGA,
but at Nottingham Castle (featured in Sierra's "Conquests of
the Longbow").
The
closet door in the Arcada shuttle entrance bears the logo of a sword
through a planet, which is used by the Alternate Federation in the
Star Trek TOS episode "Mirror Mirror".
The
panel in that same room looks a lot like the panels did on the old
Enterprise.
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