![]() ![]() Once the wrapping paper and ribbons and cellophane were cleared away, I was finally permitted to head for my room. I dutifully opened socks and sweaters and the like, waiting for a chance to run to the computer. By the time the next Christmas rolled around I only wanted one thing: Infocom’s HHGG.Īnd so it came to pass: Christmas morning, I found HHGG for my Commodore 64 under the tree. By then So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish–the fourth book in the “trilogy”–was out, and it wouldn’t be long before I had read them all. We didn’t have much money in those days, but she was always happy to encourage my sister and me to read. The next time we were at the mall, I asked my mother to buy me a copy of HHGG. After all, they were doing a fine job making stories of their own. After reading about a new game called The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (or HHGG for short) in The Status Line newsletter, I wondered if it was a good idea for Infocom to make a game based on someone else’s book. When I was ten, I had never heard of Douglas Adams, but I certainly knew Infocom. I went about things backwards, as I often did and do. Or at least it would be if you could see it which you can't. The room is spinning very gently round your head. Infocom interactive fiction - a science fiction storyĬopyright (c) 1984 by Infocom, Inc. Total Word Count (outputted text): 18,965 (14,214) Opening Crawl THE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY For comparison’s sake, Zork I‘s specifications follow in parentheses ( this idea comes from the excellent Eaten by a Grue podcast). (Courtesy of the Infocom Fact Sheet and this forum post). Transcript of play (not my first time) Specifications ![]() Nathan Simpson’s List of Infocom Bugs: HHGG The Obsessively Complete Infocom Catalog: HHGG (For best results, open MoCAGH images in a new tab) Implemented by Douglas Adams and Steve Meretzky Packaging, Documentation, and Extras The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (1984) Soundtrack Music by Philip Pope.1984’s Steve Meretzky and Douglas Adams team-up The Hitchhiker‘s Guide to the Galaxy would prove Infocom’s only collaboration between an implementor and a major author, and it sold like crazy ( Shogun? What’s a Shogun?). Stylistically emulating the work of the great Douglas Adams in The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy, the late Terry Jones weaves a fabulously mad and comic tale, adapted by Ian Billings and directed by Dirk Maggs, who also directed the last four editions of the Hitchhiker's sagas. This disaster is swiftly followed by an invitation from an over-attentive robot to come aboard, and Lucy, Dan and Nettie are catapulted into a series of increasingly bizarre encounters. Meanwhile in Oxfordshire, four humans are inspecting a property they intend buying, only to see it crushed under the re-materialising Starship. The owners, Scraliontis and Brobostigan, were intent on destroying the ship and claiming the insurance. Leovinus, the designer of the ship, uncovers shoddy workmanship, poor cybernetics and a series of increasingly eccentric robots. While the galaxy's media looks on, it unfortunately undergoes SMEF (Spontaneous Massive Existence Failure) and disappears. ![]() A tale of interstellar skulduggery, romance and unhinged robots based in Douglas Adams's universe.įar off in the centre of one of the less well-chartered quadrants of the universe, a vast civilisation is preparing to launch the most technologically advanced starship ever - Starship Titanic. Michael Palin stars in an exclusive adaptation of Terry Jones's comic novel. ![]()
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