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Online Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy remake
Robert Janelle \| 6:40 PM on 03.11.2008	9 comments

I have to say, this is pretty damn cool. The BBC Radio 4 web site has a Flash remake of Infocom's Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy text adventure adaptation, considered by many of to be the best title in Infocom's catalog.

The main game play is still done through a text parser (yay!) but they've added a little graphic interface as well. You can move to different locations by clicking and you've got a separate inventory screen.

Pretty nifty, plus you can create an account on the site to save your game (pretty much required after I remembered how bloody hard the game is, even if it does closely follow Douglas Adams' book.)

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6 comments | showing # 1 to 6

fyre

I started this a few months ago. It was kinda fun, but hard since I've never really played any text adventures before, and it doesn't necessarily follow the book.

Conrad Zimmerman

God, how I loved this game. You really get a sense of accomplishment the first time you manage to acquire the Babel Fish.

Clint

I saw that a couple of months ago and decided to give it a shot. It's fun but really really hard. Just getting the Babelfish took me a full week.

GoS-CPT-Stewart

Yeah I tried this for about a half an hour before finally getting outside my house, but then the world blew up... So i gave up... Text adventures are so freakin' hard!

ceark

geez. I can't get past lying down infront of the bulldozer

Aerox

You have been eaten by a grue.

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