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#1 2005-02-27 11:57 pm
- mo' ron
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Hitchhiker's Guide text game link?
I seem to remember a topic here a while back about the Infocom HHGTG text game, and there was a link to a web-based version of this game. I searched on Google, and I couldn't find anything... does anyone know where I can find it?
It seems it's a LOT easier to find the Mac version than the Windows version too (my Windows using friend who is also a huge fan of HHGTG has never played the game).
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#2 2005-02-28 1:27 am
- elpato84
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Re: Hitchhiker's Guide text game link?
Link (to the mac version)
[Edit - removed link to abandonware site - tBC]
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#3 2005-02-28 3:21 am
Re: Hitchhiker's Guide text game link?
If you want to play them on OS X you'll need to use a program callled "Zoom".
I guess it's okay to post this since it was free anyway, but if not, feel free to edit this part of the post.
http://www.jasoco.net/data/files/Zoom.zip
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#4 2005-02-28 8:42 am
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Re: Hitchhiker's Guide text game link?
I had the original game on my Amiga. I still have all the fun stuff that came with it including pocket fluff, peril sensitive sunglasses and a microscopic space fleet. It truly is a funny game. I am just glad I was able to hear Douglas Adams speak at a conference before he kicked the bucket. 
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#5 2005-02-28 9:00 am
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Re: Hitchhiker's Guide text game link?
Or you can play it online at DouglasAdams.com.
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#6 2005-03-09 5:07 am
Re: Hitchhiker's Guide text game link?
A Mind Forever Voyaging was the pinnacle of Infocom... but HHGG was pretty darn good, probably because Douglas Adams worked directly with Steve Meretzkey on this.
BTW does the HHGG Java version allow saving?
BTW2 Future Boy is attempting to kickstart the genre again, it's a nice intro for people who have never done interactive fiction.
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#7 2005-03-09 9:20 am
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Re: Hitchhiker's Guide text game link?
I have the Infocom Hitchhikers game still in it's original box. Bought it to play on my fat Mac. It has peril sensitive sunglasses, a "Don't Panic!" button, a bag of pocket fluff, a bag containing a Microscopic Space Fleet, an "Order for Destruction" from the Domicile Demolition Department to bulldoze my house and another "Order for Destruction" from the Vogons to bulldoze my planet. Even the manual is hysterical.
I also have Douglas Adams' Infocom game, Bureaucracy, another twisted ice-cream-brain-freeze of a game. It requires a full freaking 512K of memory to play them, but it is still under the 1Mb of memory rule postulated by Bill.
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#8 2005-03-09 9:30 am
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Re: Hitchhiker's Guide text game link?
Further proof no one needs 64-bit computers!
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#9 2005-03-09 9:41 am
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Re: Hitchhiker's Guide text game link?
the Battle Cat wrote:
I have the Infocom Hitchhikers game still in it's original box. Bought it to play on my fat Mac. It has peril sensitive sunglasses, a "Don't Panic!" button, a bag of pocket fluff, a bag containing a Microscopic Space Fleet, an "Order for Destruction" from the Domicile Demolition Department to bulldoze my house and another "Order for Destruction" from the Vogons to bulldoze my planet. Even the manual is hysterical.
I also have Douglas Adams' Infocom game, Bureaucracy, another twisted ice-cream-brain-freeze of a game. It requires a full freaking 512K of memory to play them, but it is still under the 1Mb of memory rule postulated by Bill.
I didn't get ANY of that extra stuff with my Apple II version! It was just a flat 8 x 9 folder with a thin manual.
Early adopters lose out....
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