Space Quest: Chapter I - The Sarien Encounter

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2. 9 (124)
3. 8 (74)
4. 7 (18)
5. 6 (9)
6. 5 (3)
7. 4 (2)
8. 3 (2)
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What Gamespot Users have to say about Space Quest: Chapter I - The Sarien Encounter

• Rating:1

  Adventure with many perils .

  By spadeslie | Review Date: Oct 09, 2008 | PC

  Roger Wilco does find himself in a lot of trouble when Aliens board his colony ship. The game scared me a lot when playing, I don't think Resident Evil would scare me because I have been de-sensitized by the fact that th... Read Full Review

  0 of 6 users found the following review helpful
• Rating:8.5

  This is a great remake of 1986 classic Sierra adventure. With enhanced VGA graphics and point and click interface game l

  By Przem0 | Review Date: Sep 06, 2007 | PC

  Long story short: our hero, Roger Wilco, the chief sanitation engineer a.k.a. janitor wakes up one lovely day on his starship Arcada just to face alien attack. Those aliens happen to be Sariens and they stole Star Genera... Read Full Review

  0 of 0 users found the following review helpful
• Rating:9

  A great re-inventing of a classic text-based game that is a classic in its own right...

  By OleYeller2113 | Review Date: Aug 03, 2006 | PC

  Space Quest was one of Sierra's great 2D adventure game series before the 2D adventure genre was put out to pasture by the advent of 3D graphics. Space Quest I (VGA) was simply a new take on an old story. In looking a... Read Full Review

  0 of 0 users found the following review helpful
• Rating:8.1

  Chock one up for sleeping in the space closet... Again!

  By themidgethotel | Review Date: Jul 19, 2006 | PC

  "Alarms are going off. An evil race of alien beings, known as Sariens, have boarded your ship, killing every person on board that they see. They've set off the self-destruct system to activate in 15 minutes. And they've ... Read Full Review

  0 of 0 users found the following review helpful
• Rating:9.3

  Roger Wilco's first adventure is as hilarious as it is fun! 4 out of 4 golden mops!

  By MUherd14 | Review Date: Jan 31, 2006 | PC

  Can Roger Wilco save the universe and get the floor cleaned before its too late???? Only you can help this bumbling janitor through this hilarious tale. Graphics: This is a remake, and I must say that there is a V... Read Full Review

  1 of 1 users found the following review helpful
• Rating:9

  The tale of a lazy janitor and the beginning of the Space Quest series.

  By C0deZer0 | Review Date: Jan 14, 2006 | PC

  Back in 1986 Sierra was hard at work developing a few different games that would put the gamer in a series of quests... Sierra developed Kings Quest, and Police Quest, Leisure Suit Larry, and then realized that they hadn... Read Full Review

  1 of 2 users found the following review helpful
• Rating:8.6

  Humor at it's best from outter space...

  By CooperTeam | Review Date: Dec 20, 2005 | PC

  First off, understand one thing, this game was made by the company called SIERRA. SIERRA was famous for making tons of great adventure games such as Space Quest, Leisure Suite Larry, Kings Quest, Quest For Glory, and man... Read Full Review

  0 of 0 users found the following review helpful
• Rating:7.9

  First adventure of the galaxy's finest Janitor

  By andyt66 | Review Date: Jul 04, 2005 | PC

  Another old school PC review i'll keep this fairly brief... In a far off galaxy the sun is about to die...thankfully at the last moment a great scentist invents the star generator...a machine capable of revitalising t... Read Full Review

  0 of 0 users found the following review helpful