Plan 9 from Outer SpacePlan 9 from Outer Space

Game Details:  Mystery, 1992

Links:  Moby Games, Adventure Gamers

Walkthrough Updated:  5/4/2015

Suggested Listening:  Help Me Out (Ash 25)

Plan 9 from Outer Space is a mystery adventure game where you play as a private investigator for a film company. The original footage from the iconically bad film of the same name has been stolen, and you must travel the world in order to retrieve the 6 missing film reels and restore the film to its original condition.

Studio Town

Cheapflik Studios

After answering the copy protection, go out to the corridor, then the foyer, then out to the street. Go forward to find Joe's Diner, then go right to the Hub Cap and head inside. Talk to the strange female type, then talk to the barman and buy some rum from him. Go back outside, then head along the street, left and back into the foyer. Go upstairs and back into the producer's office. Search the desk to get a key, then head right to the private room. Examine each of the photos and you will find an address. Leave the room and head back down to the foyer. Talk to the doorman, ask him to call you a taxi, then say goodbye and head outside. Enter the taxi.

Lot 9, Pleasant Rest, Highgate

Enter the cemetery and then the crypt. Pick up the hammer, then examine the body and you will find the house key. Leave the crypt, then go back to the taxi.

Vlad The Impaler St

Head inside the house and go to the study at the top left. Examine the mall flyer and the photos, then take a photograph. Push the left trophy on the far wall and you will get a TrEx credit card. Examine this card, then go back to the right and outside. Drop the house key, then get back in the taxi.

Hypermega Mall

Enter the mall, then push the elevator button and get inside. Push button 2 and exit the lift, then talk to the assistant; buy the mask using your TrEx card. Examine the mask, then read the note before dropping both the mask and note. Go back to the lift and push the elevator button, then head inside and push button 3. Exit here and talk to the assistant; book a flight using your TrEx card. Go back to the lift and push the elevator button, then head inside and push button 5. Exit here and examine the spade on the wall. Talk to the assistant, buy the spade with your TrEx card. Use your passport on the Xerox machine to get a copy of your photo. Now head back to the elevator.

Push the elevator button, then get inside and push button 6. Talk to the teller and ask for some of each type of foreign currency. Give her the small key and say it is for box 530143. Open the safe deposit box and take the film reel from inside. Examine the film reel to see it is called "Wun", then drop the small key and leave this room. Exit the bank and push the elevator button, then get inside. Push button 1, then head outside and return to the taxi.

Lot 9, Pleasant Rest, Highgate

Enter the cemetery, then go left to find a cross. Use the spade 3 times on the grave, then examine the grave to find a film reel. Examine the film reel to see it is called "of". Drop the spade here, then leave the cemetery and return to the taxi.

EWJ Airport

Enter the airport concourse. Give your ticket to the airline representative, then head right to the runway and board the plane. Quickly head to the cockpit and talk to the pilot on the right; ask about a place to stay in Rio. Return to the cabin and wait for the flight to end.

Brazil

Rio Airport

Leave the airport and enter the taxi.

Hotel

Examine the registry book to see Captain S Peters was in room 21. Talk to the receptionist and book room 21, then head upstairs to the room. Pick up the pilot's ID from the table, and examine it to get an address, then use your photo on the ID to switch the picture. Leave your room and drop your room key, then walk right from the receptionist to reach the beach. Go left into a cave, then pick up another film reel and examine it to see it is called "Lo". Leave the cave and beach, then go back to the taxi.

Rio Airport

Go inside and you will be taken by the police. Ask to leave, then say you cannot bow to bribery.

Police Station

In your cell, quickly give the rum to the guard. Use your hammer on the statuette he drops, then drop the hammer and leave.

Rio Airport

Head inside and give your ticket to the airline representative. Go right to the runway and board the plane.

Studio Town

EWJ Airport

Leave the airport and enter the taxi.

Aviation Way

Try to go inside, then try opening the door. Use your TrEx card on the door then head inside. Take the scuba gear, then go through to the back garden and pick up the film reel. Examine it to see it is called "Property". Go back through the house and out to the taxi.

Cheapflik Studios

Go into the foyer, then upstairs and into the store room on the left. Take the love beads from the statue on the left, then leave the room and return to the foyer. Talk to the doorman and ask for a taxi, then bribe him $10 to get one, before heading outside and into the taxi.

EWJ Airport

Go inside and show your pilot ID to the airline representative, choose to fly to Australia, then go to the runway and board the plane.

Australia

Sydney Airport

Enter the taxi.

Opera House

Go right to find a beach. Talk to the bather about the weather, then offer her the love beads and she will take you to a hippy commune. Return right twice and get back in the taxi.

Sydney Airport

Go inside and show your pilot ID to the airline representative, choose to fly home, then go to the runway and board the plane.

Studio Town

EWJ Airport

Enter the taxi.

Cheapflik Studios

Go along the street and into the diner and pick up the blue balloon from the table. Head back outside and left twice to find a building site. When the men mention your tan, say you got it in Australia and mention the commune. Go back to the main street, then into the foyer. Head upstairs and into the store room, and this time pick up the dictionary from on the right. Leave here and go back to the foyer. Order another taxi by talking to the doorman (you may need to bribe him again), then go outside and get in the taxi.

EWJ Airport

Go inside and show your pilot ID to the airline representative, choose to fly to Australia, then go to the runway and board the plane.

Australia

Sydney Airport

Enter the taxi.

Opera House

Go left to the bridge and talk to the painter until you fall into the water. Quickly use your scuba gear, then pick up the crowbar. Use your balloon on your scuba gear to return to the opera house. Now you can drop both the balloon and scuba gear. Head right to the beach, then left to the hippy commune. Talk to the male hippy about Fred and you will get some film. Examine this film reel to see it is called "HK". Return to the taxi.

Sydney Airport

Go inside and show your pilot ID to the airline representative, choose to fly to Hong Kong, then go to the runway and board the plane.

Hong Kong

Hong Kong Airport

Enter the taxi.

Movie Mogul

Talk to the man to learn he has been robbed, then return to the taxi.

Hong Kong Airport

Go inside and show your pilot ID to the airline representative, choose to fly to Washington, then go to the runway and board the plane.

Washington

Washington Airport

Enter the taxi.

White House

You will end up being interrogated, then sent to Cuba. When you are questioned in Spanish, examine your dictionary; you will get some cigars and a poster and be returned to the airport.

Washington Airport

Enter the taxi again.

White House

Give the poster and cigars to the CIA chief, then return to the taxi.

Smithsonian

Give your slimy pupa to the curator, then enter the warehouse on the left. Examine the crates until you find one that is labelled "OR Yental, Hong Kong". Use your crowbar on this crate to get the Netsuke and another film reel. Examine this to see it is called "Song". Head back out of the warehouse then back to the taxi.

Washington Airport

Go inside and show your pilot ID to the airline representative, choose to fly to Hong Kong, then go to the runway and board the plane.

Hong Kong

Hong Kong Airport

Enter the taxi.

Movie Mogul

Give the Netsuke to the man and he will give you a talisman. Head left to the border, then walk through the archway to China. Give your talisman to the monks, then walk forward to the aliens.