Hi, I’m the Space Quest Historian.
You ever have one of those days?
I think you all know what I’m talking about.
It’s been a long day; you come home from
work; you get in the Ascend-o-Pad, and you
step out into your apartment, but it’s not
your apartment anymore — it’s somebody’s
laboratory — and you’ve suddenly grown
10 feet tall, and your commanding officer’s
here, and he’s yelling at you to get back
to work, so you apologize and head back into
the Ascend-o-Pad and return to your normal
size — but hey, wait a minute, didn’t
you just come from here?
What happened?
Did someone put magic mushrooms in that Monolith
Fun Meal takeaway you had on your way home?
And all you wanted to do was to get on the
computer, curl up with your cyberspace helmet,
and browse the internet archives for a bit
... but no, of course you can’t.
There’s a wait.
You have to WAIT.
Well, of course you can cheat the system.
Everyone knows how to cheat the system.
You just take a virtual screwdriver that’s
hiding out front like the pixel-hunty little
bastard that it is, and you just turn the
numbers over to what number you have.
Or ... you can wait.
Like a good little janitor boy.
But who has time for that shit?
Well, apparently, Thomas Voss did, because
he sent over a savegame showing what happens
if you actually sit around and wait for the
counter to tick over — instead of, you know,
solving
a puzzle.
See you 
around the chronostream.
