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.

  • @[email protected]
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    411 months ago

    There’s an app for android for playing these games that makes it look like you’re texting back and forth

      • @[email protected]
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        1011 months ago

        Yep, it’s called Text Fiction and I set it up a couple years back before the pandemic specifically for this game. I just took a screenshot:

          • @lyam23
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            111 months ago

            Same for my Pixel.

            • @Retrograde
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              211 months ago

              Yeah sadly looks like it’s not updated for newer versions of Android :/