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Space Quest IV: Roger Wilco and the Time Rippers

May the farce be with you! Get ready for a trek through time with everybody's favorite intergalactic sanitation engineer and freelance hero, Roger Wilco. In their latest spaced-out space opera, the Two Guys…

1 January 1991 ESRB E

Space Quest IV: Roger Wilco and the Time Rippers is an adventure developed by Sierra On-Line, released 1 January 1991 on Amiga, DOS, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).

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What Space Quest IV: Roger Wilco and the Time Rippers is

Space Quest IV: Roger Wilco and the Time Rippers is an adventure game developed by Sierra On-Line and released in 1991. It is available on Amiga, DOS, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on SCI. It carries an ESRB E age rating.

The premise, in the publisher's words

In this installment, Roger embarks on a time-travel adventure through Space Quest games both past and future. An infomorph of reborn Sludge Vohaul from Space Quest XII: Vohaul's Revenge II chases Roger through time in an attempt to finally kill him. Roger also visits Space Quest X: Latex Babes of Estros (whose title is a parody of Infocom's game Leather Goddesses of Phobos) and Space Quest I; in the latter, the graphics and music revert to the style of the original game and Roger is threatened by a group of monochromatic bikers who consider Roger's 256 colors pretentious. None of the gameplay takes place in Space Quest IV. In fact, the "actual" Space Quest IV is only seen briefly in the…
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How it plays

It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are comedy and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

What it launched against

Space Quest IV: Roger Wilco and the Time Rippers launched on 1 January 1991, within three weeks of Sengoku and A-Train.

Released around the same time: Sengoku, A-Train.

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When did Space Quest IV: Roger Wilco and the Time Rippers come out?
Space Quest IV: Roger Wilco and the Time Rippers was released on 1 January 1991 for Amiga, DOS, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).

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