Space Quest Historian

A week ago, the official SQH Minecraft server was created. Today, my son and I went on a tour of what the people have built on it. It's A LOT. Want to be a part of the mayhem? Join the SQH Discord community: https://discord.gg/9mcCQt2 Look fo...

Ken Allen (King's Quest V, Space Quest IV, The Colonel's Bequest, and more) reveals his favorite pieces of music from the Space Quest series. In part 1, we'll tackle the first four games in the series. Part 2 will cover 5 and 6 as well as SQ1VGA a...

I somehow got my hands on a very early ALPHA build of the Under A Killing Moon Remake and... well, I livestreamed it, of course. Check out the Kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/texmurphy/tex-murphy-killing-moon-rising And the w...

Fate of Atlantis should have been the fourth movie and that's just a fact. 🤷‍♀️ Music from the game originally composed by Clint Bajakian, Peter McConnell, and Michael Z. Land Remixed by Space Quest Historian Mixed & mastered by jbh Remix...

The making of Take 2's FMV game Black Dahlia from 1998, as told by the cast and crew themselves. I conducted these interviews from September 2025 to February 2026, gaining a whole new appreciation for what goes into developing a game of this enorm...

Everyone's heard of Ripper (the Christopher Walken FMV game), but not many people talk about the game that came AFTER Ripper. It's just as mental as Ripper, even moreso, but also so much better in practically every way. Watch the full 4 hour mo...

It's taken 13 years to get here, but SpaceVenture — the spiritual successor to Space Quest by The Two Guys From Andromeda — is finally officially released! After 8 months in Early Access, the team pressed the launch button on December 23rd, 2025. ...

Why are we so scared to say that games can be more than games? Is it fair to call walking simulators and other narrative-driven experiences "games"? And why do developers feel the need to shove "gameplay" into their products where it doesn't reall...

I take a look at the Collection releases Sierra put out that include all the Space Quest games made at certain intervals in the series' (and the company's) lifespan, and round off things with the most audaciously impressive Collection box known to...

My follow-up video on the Rednex game (and why it got copyright flagged) was removed from YouTube TWICE because of "sexually explicit content" and now I have a content strike on my YouTube channel. Here's why.

My previous video on the Rednex game got flagged and almost gave me a copyright strike. So, out of spite, my buddy Ron decompiled their game for the Mac, and I set out to uncover all its darkest secrets. Also, YouTube's copyright system is absolut...

Why would a Swedish Eurodance outfit pretending to be American rednecks put out a point-and-click adventure game in the mid 90s? Where did it come from? Where did it go? No one truly knows, but it is a stupendously awkward and hilarious glimpse in...

Universe is the second point-and-click adventure game by Core Design, who would later achieve super-stardom with the Tomb Raider series. It is an extraordinarily good-looking game that desperately wants to be Star Wars and fails at it in just abou...

Space Quest III is surprisingly easy-going on the player. In fact, the only two really cruel moments we've been able to find in the game are so ludicrously improbable, I'll bet you anything you've never seen them before this video. (Offer not guar...

My band Error 47 performed a live concert in conjunction with the Portland Retro Game Expo of music from The 7th Guest, Gabriel Knight, Space Quest, and... Putt-Putt?! 0:00:00 Pre-show 0:19:36 Introduction (and balloon animals) by Josh Mandel ...

Back in 2020, before the whole King's Quest thing took off for me, I really wanted to play "Universe," a long-forgotten sci-fi adventure game by Core Design... but I figured I'd better start with its spiritual predecessor, "Curse of Enchantia." Ju...

Remember the days when games came in lovely big cardboard boxes? I sure do. Here's a tour of the Space Quest big boxes (games 2-6), along with all the inserts, manuals, and fun stuff. Where's Space Quest I, you may ask? Why, in a separate video...

Puzzles are supposed to be fun and challenging. Here are 6 examples of puzzles that were the opposite. Featuring OneShortEye, AdventureGameGeek, Princess_Pearl_Mermaid, and Paul Korman (creator of The Phantom Fellows). 00:00 Introduction 01:12...

Under A Killing Moon and The Pandora Directive just became SO much easier to play! Thanks to a patch made by moralrecordings, you can now use free mouselook and WASD controls to move Tex around — and it works spectacularly! Download the patches...

Writer and co-designer Aaron Conners talks about the effort that went into making The Pandora Directive. Interviewed by myself and Richard Cobbett. Watch the full interview here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9FeabgHicI (And part 2 on Aaron...