For the most part, I did get a kick out of this constant lampooning, but as with all attempts to take the mickey, some hit the mark, and some fall a bit short. Even a Monty Python skit that made fun of tree spotters gets a look-in. Star Trek, Star Wars, they all have a reference or two in there somewhere. The main theme of SQ5 isn't a whole lot different from the earlier Space Quests in that it takes every chance it can to poke irreverent fun at all things that were part of TV and film pop culture at the time. actually, to collect large bags of trash jettisoned into orbit around various planets.īut as it turns out, the role of a garbage collector increases vastly in importance once the plot is revealed to involve toxic waste dumping on a galactic scale. A twist of fate lands him a perfect score on his final exam, and he winds up as captain of his very own ship - even if it is a lowly garbage scow! His mission: to boldly go where.
Roger begins this episode as a cadet at the StarCon Space Academy. have all been 'corrected' within the main set of glyphs their original designs can be found in the More Latin section.Review by Steve Metzler (January, 2003) Space Quest 5 (SQ5) finds our lovable, hapless hero Roger Wilco in yet another bid to unwittingly save the universe. J O P Q R S X c j m n p q r s u v z !.Oddly enough, instead of using the outline font.009, the opening credits used the font.008 twice for a 'drop-shadow' effect.Īnd while they may have been intentional choices, there are several instances where the outline designs don't follow the patterns found with the majority of other glyphs (missing pixels, perhaps for legibility?). This font was used for onle single phrase in the game: "A few hours later." (occurring twice in the floppy disk version, but only once in the CD-ROM version). Sierra Resource File Tag: "font.009" and is paired with the Sierra font "font.008". Solid outline font used in King's Quest V: Absence Makes The Heart Go Yonder!, (C) 1990 Sierra On-Line. This is a clone of King's Quest V - Initials To match the two-tone sprites used in the game, this version allows the user to overlay a partial letter or letters in a different color for use in games or picture/image artwork. While the letters were centered within the 16x15 sprites, the I and J were changed to proportional spacing for use with other fonts. These letters were not generated using an in-game font they were actually pre-rendered static images within the game's art assets, used in conjunction with the Sierra text font Font.004. Initials used with the non-speech text in King's Quest V: Absence Makes The Heart Go Yonder!, (C) 1990 Sierra On-Line.
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