Space Quest 6 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ There's an imperial shuttle from Star Wars in the DeepShip's shuttle bay (along with the message: "Remember your parking space, Luke!"). The alien from Scott Ripley's "Alien" pops up after Wriggley (pun intended) helps you restarting the stolen ship's engines. Laurel and Hardy are disguised as guard nanites near the entrance to Stellar's brain. A graffitti in the DeepShip 86's brig reads "Sarek lies!". Sarek is a character from Star Trek. E.T. is sitting in Boot Liquor on Polysorbate LX. Elvis sometimes pops up in 8-Rear. The Road Runner gets a mention in cyberspace - the unmistakeable bowl of "free bird seed" is sitting underneath a huge rock. 8-Rear (the DeepShip's lounge) is a spoof on 10-Forward, the lounge on the USS Enterprise. The Vulgar nervepinch is a spoof on the Vulcan nervegrip that Spock so often uses in Star Trek. Several elements from "Back to the Future" are mentioned on the Popular Tektronics CD in Nigel and Singent's apartment. Check under the section "Building a time machine out of a DeLorean". Dorff mentions a planet called Daventry VIII (not sure about the number) when you're locked up in the brig. Daventry is the homeland of the characters in King's Quest. The Popular Tektronics CD in Nigel & Singent's apartment mentions an e-mag called "Mired", a spoof on "Wired". Elton John appears during Magnum's transformation in the Shuttle Bay Entrance. However, the song he is singing is in fact the title music from King's Quest 6, "Girl in the Tower". The original piece was only available on the CD version of KQ6. When using Dr.Beleauxs' communications system, the name Plodigy pops up. This is a spoof on Prodigy (the speed is also quite accurate). Elvis is a victim of a poster manipulation in Nigel & Singent's apartment. Talk to something in the alley outside the Orion's Belt (in the part of the alley you can't go into). You'll get two messages. One is from Star Trek, the other from 2001. When talking to the left door in the Ascend-O-Pad at Delta Burksilon V, you'll hear Cedric the Owl (from King's Quest 5) say "If you're going in there, Graham, I'm staying out here" or "If you're staying out here, Graham, I'm going in there." (depends whether the door is open or closed). The games at the arcade are parodies of games or jokes. . Here's a list: "Mixed Up Mother Theresa" - "Mixed up Mother Goose" by Roberta Williams. "Beat the crap out of Urkel" - Urkel was the star of an old comedy. He would constantly play accordian and act all stupid and clumsy. "Disembowling for Dollars" - "Bowling for Bucks" (a US game show) "MBA Toejam" - "NBA Jam" by Acclaim "Secret Recipes of the Luftwaffe" - "Secret Weapons of the Luftwaffe" "Stooge Fighter III" - "Street Fighter II" "More Dull Kombat II" - "Mortal Kombat II" During the introduction, Admiral Toolman throws Roger's underpants up into the air, and they turn into the DeepShip 86. This is a take-off of the intro from Stanley Kubric's "2001: A Space Oddysey", in which a monkey throws a skeleton bone into the air which turns into a spaceship. Jebba the Hop is a spoof on the evil snail-guy, Jabba the Hutt, in the third (sixth) Star Wars movie. The Bjorn collective is a spoof on the Borg from Star Trek: The Next Generation. The name came from a Swedish tennis player, whose name was (is) Bjorn Borg. Dr. Beleauxs' computer monitor is from Cyberdyne, the hightech company that invented the Skynet-chips in the Terminator movies. The opening sequence is kidding around with the movie JUDGE DREDD, in which Stallone is also stripped, although they didn't go as far out as in SQ6. Commander Kielbasa's scratching post, er, command center is capable of getting him to level six of "Super Nunzio World", a parody of Nintendo's "Super Mario World". Also, a part of the console is actually a Gravis GamePad. The cyberspace receptionist is called Sys Inny - a name which, when pronounced "correctly", becomes a Windows system file, SYSTEM.INI. One of the building machines in cyberspace is a spoof on one of the weapons in DOOM. The yellow machine to the left is called a BFT-9000 Cyberearth mover - the seventh weapon in DOOM is called a BFG-9000. Since BFG means "Big Fragging Gun", BFT probably means "Big Fragging Truck" or something similar. When talking to the brig replicator, Roger will say: "Tea. Earl Grey. Hot," in reference to Captain Picard in Star Trek: The Next Generation. The sequence where Roger is being chased by the gigantic gallstone in Stellar's digestive systems is a direct steal on the opening sequence in "Raiders of the Lost Ark". The sentence "Big Brother is watching you!", which appears on the scrolling board in the shuttlebay entrance, an often-used sentence in the book "1984". R2D2 from Star Wars has been reduced to a GenBlood blender in Fester's "Implants-N-Stuff". A marine dropship from the Alien movies is in the bottom right row in the shuttle bay. A Star Trek shuttle (with the unmistakeable 1701D insignia) is located in the middle of the left row (in the shuttlebay, of course). One of the random exit messages is "Aren't you glad your middle name isn't Lawrence?". This is a poke at the game designer Josh Mandel. The reason? Josh's middle name is Lawrence. The "Abby Normal" brain in Fester's Implants-N-Stuff is from "Young Frankenstein". The endodroid is a mixture of the T-1000 Terminator from "Terminator 2: Judgement Day" and Roy Batty, who was the leader of the escaped Replicants in the movie "Blade Runner". This becomes apparent when Roger freezes the endodroid and makes fun of the "Hasta la vista, baby!" phrase. He says "Frosta la keister, baby!". The Qodrac Mobile Photo Booth is a spoof on the Kodak Non-Mobile Photo Booth. Look at the Sectors command in the cyberspace office. Gary Owens (the narrator) says "You probably want us to say something corny, like 'Klingons in sector 2.8, Captain'", in reference to Star Trek. Blaine Rohmer is obviously a spoof on the Blade Runners, from Ridley Scott's "Blade Runner" movie. The only replicator code that produces a response is the Bjorn Chow code from the demo (no. 7469410). The DeepShip's full name (as shown in the opening sequence) is DeepShip 86 LSL6 BFD. LSL6 BFD means "Leisure Suit Larry 6: Big F___ing Deal". In the basement of the Orion's Belt, there's a spider on one of the pipes to the left. If you HAND it, it falls to the floor, screaming. The gravedigger at Stellar's funeral is also the gravedigger at St. Louis Cemetery in "Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers". Okay, this is a weird one: In the intro, Kielbasa says "Thank you" 36 times. On the screens shown during that time, there are definitely not 36 crew members. However, if you count ALL the people showing up on the DeepShip, including the 7 storm poopers, excluding the monster in the brig and the gravedigger at the funeral, the summa is 36. Strange. The title is based upon the Final Frontier. The bottom left ship in the shuttlebay might be from "Lost in Space". The red shuttle in the bottom-right corner is "Shuttle 2" from the old TV-series, "Thunderbirds". In the cyberspace office, clicking the EYE-cursor on the background produces the response: "You saw it here first. A preview of the famed information superhighway. Wow!". However, after six or seven more clicks, Gary will say: "Wow! This makes my nipples hard!" instead. If you Ctrl+Click on the video screen in 8-Rear 7 times, the programmer's "Renegade Credits" will appear. You'll also be rewarded by Roger saying "I'm Roger Wilco and I'll kick your ass! I know where you live" at the end. A reference to Wayne's World in one of the shuttles. When looking at it, Gary gives a description, after which Roger delivers the W.W. cliche: "It will be mine, oh yes, it will be mine." When Roger looks in the mirror, Gary says he sees a brunette overacting in a stone tower, afterwhich Roger squeals, "Mother, mother, come quick!". A reference to King's Quest VI. When Gary during the intro says, "In a deserted warehouse just outside the galaxy", it could be a poke at the Carmen Sandiago game, where each game begins with a similar remark. Admiral Toolman could be a spoof on the Admiral Tolwyn from the Wing Commander series. Flembukit's multimedia wondermachine, 3DOA, is a spoof on Panasonic's 3DO console. Also manufactured by Goldstar. And yes, the 3DO console is also highpriced and plays a half dozen bad arcade games. One of Singent Flembukit's 3DOA CD's is "The Outpost Project Survival Guide". A spoof on Bruce Balfour's space strategy game, Outpost. An UN-COMPLETE movie title guide to the movies at the Polysorbate LX cinema marquee: - Aliens's (Aliens with Sigourney Weaver, or Sir-Tech's Jagged Aliens?) - Bucket Dreams (Hoop Dreams) - Fist Full of Buckazoids ("Fistfull of Dollars", a Clint Eastwood western) - For a Few Buckazoids More ("For a Few Dollars More", another Clint Eastwood spaghetti western) - Future Schlock ("Future Shock", a scifi thriller in VR, ca.1994) - Gumby vs. Mr Bill (Gumby is a green stop-motion character and Mr. Bill is a character from the TV show Saturday Night Live, fighting as in Godzilla vs. Mothra) - Hudson Hawk Goes to Washington ("Hudson Hawk", Bruce Willis) - Johnny Pneumatic ("Johnny Mnemonic", William Gibson scifi with Keanu Reeves) - Josh Mandela: The Legend Continues (Josh Mandel was the original designer of SQ6, "Mandela" is a reference to Nelson Mandela) - The Last of the Andromedans ("The Last of the Mohicans") - The Last Stoogefighter ("The Last Starfighter") - Linoleum Cheese: A Janitor's Tale (?) - Little Debbie Does Delta Burksilon (an American porn film, Debbie Does Dallas) - Mary Ann vs. Ginger ("Gilligan's Island", the Mary Ann/Ginger sweetness feud) - Michele Aleshire, will you marry me? (Michele Aleshire is Bill Shockley (the programmer's) fiancee, and they were recently married) - The Organ ("The Piano") - Outpost: The Movie (A reference to Bruce Balfour's scifi strategy game, Outpost) - Raiders of the Lost Semicircle ("Raiders of the Lost Ark", the first Indiana Jones movie) - Razing Arizona ("Raising Arizona", with Nicholas Cage) - So I Married an Endodroid ("So I Married an Axe-Murderer", horror) - Space Quest 1: The Sarien Encounter - Space Quest 2: Vohaul's Revenge - Space Quest 3: The Pirates of Pestulon - Space Quest 4: Roger Wilco and the Time Rippers - Space Quest 5: The Next Mutation - Space Quest 6: Roger Wilco and the Colon of Doom - Space Quest 7: The Musical - Star Trek XVIII: The Search for Kahn's Implanted Pecs ("Star Trek 2: Kahn's Revenge" and "Star Trek 3: The Search for Spock") - Superman vs. Batman - Tango & Cash XXVII: The Sequel ("Tango and Cash", Sly Stallone) - Think Tank Girl ("Tank Girl", comic based movie) - Triple X-Files ("X-Files", supernatural tv-series) - True Flies ("True Lies", Arnold Schwarzenegger) - Zorbot the Greek ("Zorba the Greek, Anthony Quinn) Beleauxs' books in the lab include "The Hunt for Red Corpuscle" (The Hunt for Red October) and "All I Need to Know I Learned from the Q Continuum" - the Q Continuum is the being-place for the Q entity in Star Trek TNG and DS9. A graffiti on the wall outside the arcade on Polysorbate LX reads "DARMOK+JALOD 4EVER". A reference to the Star Trek: TNG episode, "Darmok". The Mr. Soylent food replicators is a spoof on an old scifi movie entitled "Soylent Green". The movie is in the future where humans have used up all of the Earth's resources and have to live underground because the air is so polluted. The only thing left to eat on the planet is a nutrient supplement called Soylent Green. Also in the future, the "leaders" decide when you're old enough to die. When it's your "time", you're sent to a special room where you can be "enlightened" before dying. Well, the story goes, two guys who were deemed fit to die, didn't want to. So they got away and began to wander around. They found the "enlightenment room" and found out what they were doing with the dead people. They were processing them into, yes you guessed it, the Soylent Green machines! So now you know what the Soylent Clear jingle means when it says, "Clearly less people, clearly more taste!" Almost all the drinks on Polysorbate LX are spoofs of famous sci-fi writers: - Raymond E. Feisterbray (Raymond E. Feist) - Samuel Douglas Adams (Douglas Adams + Sam Adams (beer)) - Alan Dean Foster's Draft Ale (Alan Dean Foster) - "wicked ale from Ray's Bradbrewery" (Ray Bradbury) - Silverberg Bullet (Robert Silverberg) - Ursula K. LeGuinness Stout (Ursula K. LeGuin + Guinness (beer)) (This one is the winner of the Nebuale award (Nebula Award)) - Harlon Aleison (Harlan Ellison) - Beers Anthony (Piers Anthony) - "a wild-roddenberry flavored stuff" (Gene Roddenberry) - Heinleinekin (Robert Heinlein + Heineken (beer)) - Sappournelle (Jerry Pournelle + Sauvignon (white wine)) - Marion Zima Bradley (Marion Zimmer Bradley + Zima(clear beverage)) - Watney's Red Planet (?) - Asimov Cocktail (Isaac Asimov) - William Gibson (William Gibson) - Peltz. Drinks on Polysorbate LX that are not spoofs on scifi writers: - Jurassic Dark (a spoof on Spielberg's "Jurassic Park" movie) - Babylon .45 (a spoof on the tv-series "Babylon V") - Star Beck (a spoof on "Star Trek"; the slogan for this beer is "it makes you go where no man has gone before", a spoof on the well known Star Trek opening monologue) - Major Kirin (maybe Major Kira, from Star Trek DS9?) - Red Dog (A tribute to the people that did "Slater & Charlie go camping". A little nickname.) The game's "slogan", "In Space No One Can Hear You Clean", is a spoof on Ridley Scott's slogan for the Alien movies, "In Space No One Can Hear You Scream". Amongst the "Classifieds" in the PJOL magazine that comes with the game is an ad for Bill Shockley (the programmer) who is doing business as a cyberdate, an ad for Balfour's AI Fix-it Shop (a reference to Leslie Balfour) and an ad for programmers that can code Binky. If you can code Binky, call Larry S. (this might be a reference to Larry Scott)