The Space Bar

[Discoalucard]

www.hardcoregaming101.net/spacebar/spacebar.htm

Another mid-90s first person adventure game, covered in the adventure game book. You play a human who goes into a interstellar bar, then jumps into the minds of various aliens to help them solve problems. This one was written by the legendary Steve Meretzky, but unfortunately due to some design issues it didn't turn out nearly as well as it should've. Conceptually there's some similarity to Legend's Callahan's Crosstime Saloon, but that game was much much better.

[jorpho]

I had the impression that this was one of those rare games that was difficult to find, but actually there seem to be numerous affordable copies on eBay.

I wonder why it hasn't turned up on GOG.com yet? It doesn't look like it would be tied up in licensing shenanigans.

[lanceboyle94]

May 3, 2014 18:10:03 GMT -5 jorpho said:

I wonder why it hasn't turned up on GOG.com yet? It doesn't look like it would be tied up in licensing shenanigans.

I'm guessing that, like the other SegaSoft games, they're still owned by Sega, and they don't wanna do anything, I guess.