This is accurate gameplay from the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy text adventure that INFOCOM made with the help of Douglas Adams in 1984.

I thought people would find it interesting to see the way a game would creatively do a demo in print in the 1980s since doing it other ways was either too expensive or not very useful from a marketing perspective.

More info on the game- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hitchhiker's_Guide_to_the_Galaxy_(video_game)

It was very challenging. I never got all the way through it. Amazingly, it only covers a small portion of the first book despite taking hours and hours to play.

  • @Simulation6@sopuli.xyz
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    46 months ago

    There was another Adams game called something like Starship Titanic. That one went beyond challenging into absurd. It as my first rage quit game.

    • Flying SquidOP
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      06 months ago

      Close- Adams made two games for Infocom. This one and a ridiculously hard to the point of impossibility game called Bureaucracy.

      Then he made Starship Titanic some years later for The Digital Village.