Earth will be destroyed in 12 minutes... - eviltoast

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.

    • Davel23@kbin.social
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      6
      ·
      10 months ago

      Yup. As I recall it was kind of a school-wide effort, with kids relaying solutions of various puzzles to each other until we had enough to complete the game. I do recall working out the Babelfish puzzle on my own, though I also neglected to feed the dog at the beginning of the game soft-locking myself on at least one playthrough.

      • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldOP
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        6
        ·
        10 months ago

        That was the most frustrating part of the game- finding out that you should have done something else ages ago and now you can never finish even though it let you keep going.