So for this year's Space Quest Olympics (in honour of Scott Murphy on his birthday) headed by Troels Pleimert (aka the Space Quest Historian), I decided to work on a surprise for the final event of the stream. I extended the root monster maze gauntlet to the west of the main maze screen and stripped out the rest of the game. It starts you right at the beginning of the maze, it gives you a "Checkpoint!" text when you get to the final archway, and when you return all the way to the beginning (after having reached Checkpoint) it will tell you your time. So if you'd like to give it a go yourself, have at it. Here's the download.
And here's a link to the stream on YT which featured each event from each SQ game (this year's theme was Speedrunner's Delight). The new root maze is the final event at the end:
