Space Quest Historian

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Adventure game aficionado with a foul mouth. YouTube: youtube.com/spacequesthistorian PeerTube: spectra.video/c/spacequesthistorian Twitch: twitch.tv/spacequesthistorian Mastodon: dosgame.club/@sqhistorian

A very dodgy-looking mid-1990s 3D model of Dennis Hopper.
Screenshot of a computer screen readout (from episode 8) showing the Digital Circus first being created on October 15, 1996.
The "white lady" ghost from The 7th Guest floating with her head against a brick wall. Text above her reads "<bonk>".
Fun fact: there are an estimated 44 million penguins in Antarctica. Malta has a population of roughly 550,000. So, if Antarctica ever invades Malta, every single Maltese person would have to fight 80 penguins. (A picture of two penguins from the Madagascar movie slap-fighting.)
A happy yellow fish next to a brightly colored title: "Freddi Fish - The Case of the Missing Kelp Seeds."
A desktop notification from Google Chrome that reads: "The browser with Google AI buitl in. AI in Chrome helps make the web faster, safer, and more accessible." Two buttons underneath are "Open Chrome" and "Dismiss."
An animated slideshow showing various environments and conversations from the remake. They're pretty.
The 6 ghostly guests sitting around the library accusing each other.
My copy of the Error 47 live album on my shelf.
Julia Heine in the kitchen with the soup cauldron. Mmm, good soup.
Banner for the 7th Guest remake featuring the logo and some spooky ghost shit.
A screenshot of the Kickstarter banner showing the current backing amount of $68,913 USD against a $50,000 USD goal.
The logo for the game Foolish Mortals.
Mature Content Description. The developers describe the content like this: As you travel through space, several people will die - these deaths will be depicted with cartoonish blood, guts, and gore, or will be comedic in tone. In the throne room, you'll find the walls decorated with statues, complete with comedy alien penises. To complete puzzles, you'll also have to navigate an alien sex shop, which comes with some sexual paraphernalia and moaning noises.
SQH looking mock-determined, standing with hand-on-heart in front of an orange/yellow sunset-ish graphic. Text reads: "The livestreams will continue until morale improves."
Cover artwork for The End of the Sun featuring an old dude with a stick wearing a robe and waving his hand enigmatically at something.
A deliberately blurry, low-resolution image of a fish next to a fish hook saying, "Low quality bait."
An AI chat window in YouTube Studio called "Ask YouTube." It claims it can "summarize comments" and "suggest new video ideas." A blinking prompt awaits my input.
A picture of the boxed copy of the Amiga version of Innocent Until Caught with all the disks laid out in front of the box and the manuals off to the side.
The main character from Innocent Until Caught with badly drawn googly eyes, a dribbling tongue, and an arrow stuck through the forehead. Text reads, "Pisshead" with an arrow pointing toward the character.
A mock propaganda poster of me looking determined with my fist on my heart against a sunburst background. A large caption reads, "The livestreams will continue until morale improves."
Trollface
A bad MS Paint edit of Jack T. Ladd from the Innocent Until Caught box cover. Two googly eyes have been drawn on him with the pupils facing the other direction. Text (in poor lettering) reads, "INNØCÆNT UNTÆL PÖÖP LOL FU" with an arrow pointing towards Jack.
The front cover of Innocent Until Caught featuring a badly drawn shifty-eyed dude looking shifty.
An email from YouTube saying that my appeal against the copyright claim on my video has been reviewed by the claimant and they have decided they'd rather take my money than respect Fair Use.
A stylized monochromatic shot of a church.
You love old insanely difficult games, have you checked out the game The Space Bar? First person, ball bustingly difficult, filled with logic beyond moon logic. I don't think much of anyone has done videos on it.
Three stupid AI-generated video ideas from YouTube Studio, the third of which is titled: "The point and click masterpiece everyone ignored: Exploring the world of Technobabylon."
A screenshot of my profile and banner pictures. The profile picture shows a drawn girl (from a Sierra Christmas catalogue circa 1990) with an excited gaping mouth. The banner picture is from the same catalogue and depicts a boy with a similarly excited gaping mouth. When put together, it appears as if they're screaming at each other.
The brick door to the afterlife in the movie Beetlejuice.
Arnold Rimmer (played by Chris Barrie) wearing a red and white checked gingham dressed and army boots.
A small text box in YouTube Studio that reads: "New achievement: Your channel is 14 years old today! They grow up so fast, don't they? Congrats on making it this far!"
The cover of the Synths of the Fathers LP with a stylized painting of Gabriel Knight under a lamppost on the cover.
Martin Scorsese saying Now, this is a film that you show to someone you care about as a way of possibly trying to say something that you can't put into words.
Black Hole Core - my new album on 12" vinyl.
A picture of excited people in business suits (representing stockholders) with the caption: "Numbers go brrrrr."
The main character from Broken Sword, George Stobbart, with an extremely raised eyebrow, looking very skeptical.
Roger Wilco from Space Quest III holding up a picture to a facial scanner and saying, "Yes, I am over 18."
A tame cat in Minecraft sitting down.
Claim: Alien EBEs are real and they're shutting the game down for exposing their IRL operations. Cookie's Bustle is actually Harigai's allegorical warning to humanity about an alien invasion. Counter: Drowned God is not a prequel to Cookie's Bustle.
Why would someone want to remove all traces of such an unknown game from the internet? Has the IP for the game been purchased, with the view to republishing the game on modern systems? Or is somebody really keen to use the name 'Cookie’s Bustle' in a new context? Or, perhaps, someone hated the game so much due to its intense difficulty and obtuse puzzles that they simply want to remove it from existence?
Screenshot of YouTube Analytics showing views, watch time, subscriber count, and estimated revenue all being "lower than usual" last 28 days. Red caption reads, "Who fucking cares."
Adventure Game Geek and myself holding a boxed copy of King's Quest: Mask of Eternity.
BSOD.
A pop-up dialog box that reads: "Get tips for success on YouTube. Secure your spot: enroll in the Channel Memberships Bootcamp starting January 12. Learn success strategies from YouTube experts and directly engage with like-minded creators. Act fast – this opportunity won't last long." The dialog box only has one button that says: "Apply now." There is no other way to close the dialog.
A crude drawing of a piece of toast and a poop. The toast says, "I am toast." The poop says, "I am poop." A caption underneath reads: "And they were best friends forever. Until someone ate toast. The end."
Screenshot of a partial email from Google that reads: "Your plan now includes AI benefits. Hi Troels, Your Google One Premium 2 TB plan has been updated to include the same AI benefits as the Google AI Plus plan at no additional cost."
A boxed copy of Space Quest IV leaning on an office chair's back rest.
Said leaflet. I'm not going to write all that down. It's two pages of very dense text.
Space Quest VGA (September 1990). In a monumentally bad move, some genius from the marketing Department thought it might be a good idea to blow the dust off the original Space Quest and "update" it for re-release. True to form, this cheesy idea quickly turned to limburger when an artist genius decided to redo the game graphics with a "1950's B-movie feel." The resulting product actually looks better than the original in spite of this, probably because of the move to 256-color VGA Graphics. This Space Quest also sounds better than the original, thanks to music card support, and the mouse control works better since you can actually use it. If you've got nothing better to do, taking the time to compare this version with the original will give you some feel for the progress made in computer game technology over the half-decade since the original was built. It will definitely make you wonder why anybody even bothered to redo the project in the first place.
A decidedly thin boxed copy of Martian Memorandum.
Notice from Bluesky's moderation team that the cover art contains "explicit sexual images."
Email from YouTube that reads: "Hi Space Quest Historian, We have reviewed your appeal for the following: Video: I got screwed by Rednex... so we decompiled their game We reviewed your content carefully, and have confirmed that it violates our sex and nudity policy. We know this is probably disappointing news, but it's our job to make sure that YouTube is a safe place for all."
An image from the Rednex game showing a poster hanging on a bathroom wall depicting a band member on stage with a bare torso and a sock on his winky.
Notice from YouTube Studio about the video being removed from YouTube.
A freeze-frame of a person smudged with a lot of compression artifacts making him look like a mutant with a half-melted face.