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.

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    10 months ago

    more likely he thought ‘video nasty’ was slang for porn (unless of course it was a joke)

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      10 months ago

      Lmao yes, you’re absolutely right. That’s what I missed.

      I still like my misinterpretation though, ahaha