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1. • CommentAuthorD-
   • CommentTimeOct 27th 2009

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   The other day reading io9 i discovered a text-based game about the hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy. It's really old but it's fun.
   PLAY IT.
   
   THere are two versions:
   This one that is the original version without illustrations but the save doesn't work.
   
   and then, you have this: that is the 20th Anniversary Edition and uses flash. You can save in this version.
   
   
   
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     CommentAuthorBrandon Seifert
   • CommentTimeOct 27th 2009

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   That's the game that was actually written by Douglas Adams.
   
   !!!
3. • CommentAuthorWill Ellwood
   • CommentTimeOct 27th 2009

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   He scripted another game as well called Bureaucracy.
4. • CommentAuthorD-
   • CommentTimeOct 27th 2009

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   oh great, i didn't know about Bureaucracy. Thanks
5. • CommentAuthorsacredchao
   • CommentTimeOct 27th 2009

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   He also wrote the story for Starship Titanic, for which Terry Jones did a novelization.
   
   I played the HHG2G text game about a decade or so ago, right after I first read the books. It was fun, though difficult.
6. •  
     CommentAuthorLazarus99
   • CommentTimeOct 27th 2009

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   Difficult?! Fuckin' impossible more like! How the hell are you supposed to get that damn babelfish?
7. • CommentAuthorJeff P.
   • CommentTimeOct 27th 2009 edited

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   Laz: HA HA! That Babelfish had me stumped for DAYS back in the 80s. Dare I rob you of the joy of figuring it out?
   I figured it out, (without warning) at 3AM after getting up from a sound sleep for a too-much-beer piss)
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     CommentAuthorAnnie
   • CommentTimeOct 27th 2009

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   Oh shit. My uncle sent me this game when I first discovered HHG2G in middle school. I don't think I've played it since then. Thanks for the link.
9. • CommentAuthorScottS
   • CommentTimeOct 27th 2009

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   I had the original text game for my old Atari computer. I did get the babel fish, but damned if I can remember now.
10. •  
      CommentAuthorchiaslut
    • CommentTimeOct 27th 2009

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    Oh man. My best friend and I played this on his Atari computer with a tape drive and some kind of special secret ink kinda manual.
    
    Oh sweet jebus ... am I really that old now?
11. • CommentAuthorrough night
    • CommentTimeOct 27th 2009

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    Awesome. I played that as a kid. It really is an elaborate prank by Douglas Adams, and is unwinnable without a guidebook or a remarkably complicated and paranoid mind.
12. •  
      CommentAuthorLazarus99
    • CommentTimeOct 28th 2009

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    @Jeff P.
    Since I'm probably never going to play it again, feel free...
13. • CommentAuthorD-
    • CommentTimeOct 28th 2009

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    why not? You must play it again and GET THE DAMN BABELFISH. Where's your honor?
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      CommentAuthorfrequentcontributor
    • CommentTimeOct 28th 2009

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    Ha! Awesome. I've read about this a bunch over the years but most likely couldn't read yet at the time of its release, so I'll give it a go! I don't know if I've ever actually played a text-based computer game...
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      CommentAuthorAlastair
    • CommentTimeOct 28th 2009

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    i couldn't get him to talk to the guy driving the bulldozer....
16. • CommentAuthorDewey Decibel
    • CommentTimeOct 28th 2009 edited

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    Dear me, this brings back soooo many memories of growing up with a "Lost Treasures of Infocom" boxed set. I must have spent a week getting hit by a brick in the beginning before I got anywhere at all. Just wish we'd gotten it early on enough to get the peril sensitive sunglasses in the feelies set.
17. •  
      CommentAuthorLazarus99
    • CommentTimeOct 28th 2009

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    @D-
    Tell me where to find it and suuure...
    
    @Alastair
    You don't talk to the driver, you talk to the foreman, Prosser...the solution right up until you get to the Vogon Constructor Ship is basically the text of chapter 1 of the book...
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      CommentAuthorbjacques
    • CommentTimeOct 28th 2009

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    I found the game, IBM PC version, for a buck at a garage sale. It's got everything but the DON'T PANIC button.
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      CommentAuthorLazarus99
    • CommentTimeOct 28th 2009

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    I used to have it on a Mac 512! The whole set - navel lint, microscopic battle fleet, Don't Panic button, even the Peril Sensitive Sunglasses...
20. •  
      CommentAuthorBen Klumaster
    • CommentTimeOct 28th 2009

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    Yes, it's quite jarring once you get past the opening and suddenly the plot diverges drastically (and you find out that a number of mundane items that were lying around during that opening are now absolutely vital to your progress).