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submitted 11 months ago by FlyingSquid@lemmy.world to c/games@lemmy.world

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%27s_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.

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[-] Simulation6@sopuli.xyz 4 points 11 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.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 0 points 11 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.

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