Space Quest 6: The Spinal Frontier

Space Quest 6: The Spinal Frontier is the 6th computer game in Sierra's Space Quest series, released in 1995. Space Quest 6: The Spinal Frontier ran on the last version of the SCI engine, SCI3. This allowed it to use Super VGA graphics with 256 colors at 640×480 resolution. Unlike other SCI games, it didn't have the interface in a pull down bar at the top of the screen, but instead used a "verb bar" window along the bottom of the screen, similar ... more

Space Quest 6: The Spinal Frontier is the 6th computer game in Sierra's Space Quest series, released in 1995. Space Quest 6: The Spinal Frontier ran on the last version of the SCI engine, SCI3. This allowed it to use Super VGA graphics with 256 colors at 640×480 resolution. Unlike other SCI games, it didn't have the interface in a pull down bar at the top of the screen, but instead used a "verb bar" window along the bottom of the screen, similar to LucasArts' SCUMM engine. The graphics style was also more cartoonish than in previous games. Gary Owens served as narrator once again. This game was the last to be released in the Space Quest series. Having defeated the diabolical pukoid mutants in Space Quest V, Captain Roger Wilco triumphantly returns to StarCon headquarters - only to be court-martialed due to breaking StarCon regulations while saving the galaxy. He's demoted to Janitor Second Class, and assigned to the SCS DeepShip 86 (a parody of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine), commanded... less