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Sequel to Infocom's Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy found!
Robert Janelle \| 6:12 AM on 04.18.2008	4 comments

Alright, this is really cool. Somehow Oregon programmer and journalist Andy Baio has gotten his hands on a back-up of the late text adventure maker Infocom's internal network drive.

While I'm sure the internal corporate memos make for some interesting reading, the really cool part was that there are two playable prototypes of Milliways: The Restaurant at the End of the Universe, the unreleased sequel to the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy game.

On his site, he's got a lengthy read dishing on all the details here

Waaay down at the bottom, he's got a Java interpreter running the prototype...sadly, it seems there wasn't much.

Though all the drama surrounding it pretty interesting.

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4 comments | showing # 1 to 4

NegFactor

That's pretty damn cool. Frankly, there were some other Infocom games I enjoyed more, but another HHGTTG is kinda neat.

king3vbo

Ooooh Hitchhikers

Lewzr

Nice find! I was a total Infocom geek as a kid (even bought and played the FMV-fest that was "Return to Zork" even though it wasn't really a real-and-true Infocom game). Hopefully Mr. Baio will reveal some more goodies from the HD, even in spite of the obvious controversy that his first reveal has caused.

Mxyzptlk

I love it when long lost gems like this turn up, even if it's not complete.

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