(10-08-2025, 06:22 PM)EirikMyhr Wrote: Well dang, this time I like both of them much more than most of the entries so far. Too bad they have to compete!
SQ6 I find much, much prettier than SQ4. Even though I’m still critical of the whole «Roger Wilco» branding thing, it actually looks kind of cool here. The colours are nice, and the whole image sort of comes alive. They also «borrowed» the font from Star Trek: The Motion Picture…

QFG1 is more of an artistic statement, with the «flat» image, the stained glass and the symmetry. Even so, the colours are kind of ugly.

No dang it, I’ll have to go with SQ6.

(10-13-2025, 03:14 AM)Josh_Mandel Wrote: Just by way of explanation: the reason the name "Roger Wilco" started to be pushed up front, and the Space Quest name de-emphasized, was actually  twofold. 

For one, Sierra never had the rights to the Space Quest name -- they had to repeatedly license it from the Children's Museum of Indianapolis. (You can probably find that referenced in tiny print on Space Quest boxes.) So the hope was to eventually jettison the Space Quest name entirely so the licensing wouldn't be necessary and Sierra could own the property free and clear.

The other concern was that it was suspected that people be might be less likely to buy a current game if they hadn't played all the previous numbers in the series. By titling each game "Roger Wilco and the...", you avoided making the numbers a potential area of confusion. As with the "Space Quest" name, I think the long-term goal was to eliminate the numbers entirely.

Josh