The Spinal Frontier ( Rus. Dorsal border ) - the sixth and last of a series of computer games Space Quest from Josh Mendel . Soon, Mendel abandoned the project, and Scott Murphy took up the finalization. The game was released by Sierra in 1995 and worked on the penultimate version of the SCI engine - SCI2 (sometimes called "SCI32"). This allowed the game to use SVGA graphics with 256 colors at a resolution of 640 × 480. Unlike previous SCI games, The Spinal Frontier does not have a “hidden” (pop-up) menu at the top of the screen. Instead, a “verb strip” is used at the bottom of the screen, reminiscent of the LucasArts SCUMM engine. Also, the graphics of the sixth game are more animated than in the previous parts of the series.
| Space Quest 6: The Spinal Frontier | |
|---|---|
| Developer | Sierra |
| Publisher | Sierra |
| Part of a series | |
| Date of issue | 1995 |
| Genre | quest |
| Age ratings | ELSPA : 11+ ESRB : KA -Kids to adults USK : 6 |
| Creators | |
| Game designer | Josh Mandel Scott Murphy |
| Technical details | |
| Platforms | PC ( DOS , Windows ) |
| Game engine | SCI2 |
| Game mode | |
| Carrier | CD |
| System requirements | 386 processor, 8 MB RAM , SVGA video adapter , Adlib , MIDI , Microsoft Sound System , Pro Audio Spectrum , Roland MT-32 , or Sound Blaster sound adapter, 2X CD-ROM |
| Control | keyboard or mouse |
Story
Defeating the evil mutants in the fifth game , Captain Roger Wilko triumphantly returns to the headquarters of StarCon ... where he is immediately sent to the tribunal for violating the charter during the rescue of the galaxy. Because of his merits, he is still not thrown into space, but reduced to a second-class cleaner and assigned to SCS Deep Ship 86 (a parody of Star Trek: Deep Space nine ), whose Kelbas commander looks like a Brave Lion and behaves as Captain Picard from Star Trek: The Next Generation ).
The subtitle of the game comes from its final part, where Roger will have to be reduced and travel inside the body of his girlfriend - Stellar Santiago (a parody of the film Inner Space ). Roger's romantic interest in this woman is an unprecedented dilemma for him, because the other woman (Beatrice Wankmeister) will have to get pregnant from him, otherwise Roger's son from the future could not save his father in the past .
Demo
In August 1995, Sierra released a fully voiced demo of the game with an original storyline.
Roger hangs in space and washes the window of the SCS bridge of Deep Ship 86 , while the rest of the crew rest. Suddenly, a strange ship appears in the form of an impossible cube , which teleports to the bridge two mechanoids with toasters on their heads - Bjorn (a borg parody from Star Trek and tennis player Bjorn Borg ). They turn the entire crew into lumps of lemon sorbet (except for Roger, who hid). Now Roger has to find a way to return the crew to their previous state and expel the Bjorn.