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SpaceVenture

SpaceVenture is a sci-fi comedy adventure game that combines interplanetary exploration and puzzle-solving with satire. · By guysfromandromeda

Name that object - Scraps' junkroom (spoilers)

A topic by eyeshore created Aug 05, 2020 Views: 234 Replies: 8
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Ok, I figured it might be nice to go off-topic from bug hunting for something a little more fun.  Marked as "spoiler" since people who haven't gotten this far won't have seen this stuff yet.

But I LOVE, love the art in Scraps' garage and the density of details and sci-fi references.  With of course, the best being the "Home" scene, the junk/TV room upstairs from the garage.  And I thought it'd be fun to see how many references we can identify.

Edit: Probably helps to zoom since it's pretty small picture here in the forum thread.  In Chrome, right click and "Open in new tab", in Firefox, "View Image".  Then can zoom more as needed)

I'll start with the ones I think I've found (which I don't think are even half of what's here):

From left to right, top half:
- Pong machine (apparently Clucky Chicken went with a retro cab design)  Edit:  was wrong, this is Computer Space, see below 
- Commodore 64, second model
- "The Robot" (Lost in Space)
- Weighted Companion Cube (Portal)
- I dunno, an old Goldstar black-and-white TV?
- BB-8
- Klaatu?
- Not sure what or even if the planetarium or swordfish ("bladefish") are references to.  I thought the planetarium thing might be from Dark Crystal, but no.
- Master Chief (Halo)
- Voyager Gold Record
- I think the "holochess" table rom Star Wars
- A Dalek carcass with an R2 unit's head welded on, which works better than you'd think

Left to right, bottom half:

- That orange thing must be  reference to something, but I can't place it.
- Tom Servo (MST3k)
- I think the projector is supposed to be made out of one of the martians from War of the Worlds - V.I.N.CENT (The Black Hole)
- Crow T. Robot (MST3K)
- The little training "remote" droid from Star Wars
- The hand of the Iron Giant
- Not sure what that last silhouette is - it kinda looks like Discovery One from 2001, but the body's wrong.  I was thinking maybe Cambot from MST3k or maybe some Klingon ship from Star Trek, but don't think those are it either.  Maybe it's just junk?

Anyway, there's  BUNCH more to find, curious what else people see =)

Edit:  Fixed some formatting munging

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I don't think that's BB8 - I think it's an R2 unit.

You also missed the blue, red, green thing is "Simon" game.

Simon (game) - Wikipedia

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Nah, that's not Simon.  There's no yellow and notice the shapes of the colors, lack of center panel.  It's not one of the newer versions either.

I'm positive it's supposed to be one of these guys from 1953 WotW:

https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/waroftheworlds/images/6/6e/War_of_Worlds02.jpg

or

https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/waroftheworlds/images/4/40/War_of_the_Worlds_screen2.jpg

The RGB thing is also perfect for a projector.

...what I'm NOT sure about is what the thing under the "face" is supposed to be.  Not sure if that's some form of the martians I don't remember, if it's some other reference, just random, stylized version of their bodies, etc.

On the BB8/R2 - I first thought it was an R2, and I agree it's not a perfect match for BB8 (missing some greebles, paint, is way too big).  But it doesn't match any variety of R2 unit either (even less than it matches BB-8's head), and I feel like they wouldn't add a SECOND R2 unit (and the one on the right absolutely is).  You might be right, and I'm not convinced it's BB8, but I'm going to say I think it's really unlikely to be an R2.  Now I'm betting it's something else entirely.

Ah, I assumed the yellow was on the other side not visible - but the second link for the WotW... nails it.

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In the room before this - there's some cool stuff. Immediately, my eyes spotted Soundwave from Transformers.

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Still my favorite transformer.  Well, except Shockwave maybe.

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Right below the Master Chief helmet is an armour piece from Mass Effect: http://pixologic.com/interview/mass-effect3/6/img/images/Shepard_Armor.jpg

Also the arcade machine is Computer Space: http://www.pixelatedarcade.com/pictures/Game/865/picture_a861-computer-space-arcade-cabinet-1-player-red-version.jpg

Ah, you're right about the arcade cabinet!

Oh damn. Nice find on the "Computer Space" game! I'd never seen that before!