Talk:Police Quest: Open Season

Wrong title
Can anyone tell me where it says Police Quest IV here? It is not on my copy anywhere either. -- Darklock 20:57, 28 September 2007 (UTC)

If you have old issues of InterAction magazine that Sierra published and gave away free to Sierra game owners, all the promo for this game in that magazine for like two or three issues in 1993 had Police Quest IV this and Police Quest 4 that, etc. There's even an old demo disc of the game that has "Police Quest 4" come out of nowhere in front of LAPD badge (similar to Dragnet's theme song) and then gets shot and "Open Season" zooms thru the clouds of smoke that the gunblast created.

Also, when this game is installed in DOS or Windows, it created a directory "PQ4". P = Police, Q = Quest, 4 = fourth game in the series. Police Quest SWAT installs as PQ5 also, and SWAT 2's earliest version install as PQ6.

Also the Mac versions of the game installs to Police Quest IV folder.

So, are you dumb and ignorant of a subject and can't get past the machinations of something to see what something is to the general public? Are you one of those weirdos that speaks in subtitles?

Coffee4binky (talk) 18:33, 6 December 2008 (UTC)

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BetacommandBot (talk) 14:10, 8 March 2008 (UTC)

No mention of Mac and Amiga versions and prototype Sega CD version
All from screen shots in magazines of the 1993 era. There is a Mac version of this game and can be bought on Amazon or eBay right now. Also, there's an Amiga version of this game, but other than ACTUALLY SEEING THE BOX AT COMPUTER CITY in 1993, geez, I have no proof. And EGM had a picture of it in one of those cruddy lil' magazines they'd sometimes pack with the big magazines. Besides Police Quest 4, Police Quest 3, Leisure Suit Larry 1, 5, 6 (hence 6 having a Sega VRC rating), Space Quest 1, 4, 5, and King's Quest 5, 6 and maybe one of the Quest for Glory games all have Sega CD prototype screen shots. Al Lowe and Scott Murphy have also told me, back in the 1990s, that these games were being considered for Sega CD, but were cancelled when the Dynamix division of Sierra's games, like Willy Beamish and Rise of the Dragon, bombed for that console. Monkey Island also bombed, from their rival LucasArts, so Sierra decided to not finish porting the games. Ironically, if LucasArts and Sierra kept porting over all of their major computer adventures games, Sega CD might've succeeded. Coffee4binky (talk) 18:39, 6 December 2008 (UTC)

Profanity in Police Quest: Open Season
To the wikipedia users running the Police Quest: Open Season

As you know I've played the Police Quest series on PC. I've played the first 3 PC games and was shocked and surprised that those games used swear words such as "Damn", "Hell", "Ass", "Crap" and even the strong word "Bastard" and Swearing Symbols.

But what was more shocking and surprising to me as I played Police Quest 4, was the uncensored mature profanity featured in Police Quest 4 along with the horror graphic violence images, and suggestive content. Keep it mind this game was released in the final days of PC censorship before the ESRB rating was officially established in 1994.

This game introduced words including "Goddamn", "Bitch" said by Hal Bottoms, Also it introduced "S***" and "F***" used by Yo Money's Girlfriend Nicolette Rogers and Dennis Walker.

The "F***" was used by a Neo Nazi character named Dennis Walker who would say "F***" many times and sometimes "S***" if the player clicked the hand icon on his stuff in his apartment. Here is a youtube video clip of Police Quest 4 when Dennis Walker uses the F word at John Carey for proof. []

This Police Quest 4 game had much more profanity than Police Quest 1-3 and Laura Bow 2: The Dagger of Amon Ra, Quest for Glory I, II, V, Space Quest V, VI.

So can anyone please tell me how the profanity got past the PC censorship in 1993 during the video game days when swearing was rarely used. I would like to somehow get it included it in Police Quest: Open Season as there was alot more profanity before Final Fantasy 7, 8, Final Fantasy Tactics came out in 1997, 1998, 1999. CrosswalkX (talk) 18:17, 31 March 2017 (UTC)
 * I think you mostly already covered it yourself - it was released prior to the ESRB crackdown, and PC games are generally less regulated than video game consoles - Sega, Nintendo, Sony etc commonly regulated this sort of thing more on their own consoles, especially in the 1990s. Sergecross73   msg me  18:54, 31 March 2017 (UTC)

Source

 * https://archive.org/stream/ElectronicEntertainment05May1994/Electronic_Entertainment_05_May_1994#page/n97/mode/2up
 * https://archive.org/stream/Electronic-Games-1994-04#page/n69/mode/2up
 * https://archive.org/stream/pcgamesmagazine-1995-11/PCGames_11_1995#page/n39/
 * https://archive.org/stream/CGStrategyPlus_assorted/CG-StrategyPlus-30#page/n7/mode/2up
 * https://web.archive.org/web/20010405101622/http://www.adventurecollective.com/articles/editorial-briefhistoryofpolicequest.htm