BBC to revive Hitchhiker's Guide Infocom Game for internet!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/tv_and_radio/3615046.stm

HOT SHIT

― TOMBOT, Wednesday, 1 September 2004 16:34 (nineteen years ago) link

its on Douglas Adams site already

http://www.douglasadams.com/creations/infocomjava.html

enjoy

― Jarlrmai (Lynskey), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 17:36 (nineteen years ago) link

this game taught me everything i know about buffered analgesics

― mark p (Mark P), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 17:41 (nineteen years ago) link

This one, like a lot of other interactive fiction, was totally impossible without hints.

― Dan I., Wednesday, 1 September 2004 22:37 (nineteen years ago) link

This, Zork, Borderzone and A Mind Forever Voyaging = best infocom games.

― Ian c=====8 (orion), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 22:44 (nineteen years ago) link

Don't forget to pick up the goddamn mail, or you'll never get the babel fish!

― Scott CE (Scott CE), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 22:54 (nineteen years ago) link

Although it should be said that this one was designed to be annoyingly difficult in places, as a parody, rather than just from bad design. If that makes a difference. (Well, and indeed, once you do it, it does seem "ha ha" rather than "argh stupid programmers.)

Best Infocom game is surely Nord & Bert Couldn't Make Head Nor Tails Of It.

Well, I like it.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 2 September 2004 04:14 (nineteen years ago) link

God, that game was impossible. Possibly because I was 12 years old at the time I played it but I remember the no tea/tea bit and the Babel fish sequence being an absolute killer. I might actually download this and have another crack at it just to see if its as frustrating as I remember.

I doubt the BBC-sponsored populist version of the game will be anywhere near as deliberately obtuse, mind.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Thursday, 2 September 2004 08:08 (nineteen years ago) link

> I

You have:
no tea

― wombatX (wombatX), Monday, 13 September 2004 00:49 (nineteen years ago) link

holy shit. a video game I've actually PLAYED!

― manthony m1cc1o (Anthony Miccio), Monday, 13 September 2004 00:52 (nineteen years ago) link

Don't drink more than three pints at lunchtime! And don't forget to give your sandwich to the dog as you leave the pub..

― wombatX (wombatX), Monday, 13 September 2004 01:35 (nineteen years ago) link

there's a new series of the radio show, books 3, 4 and 5, including a part played by DNA himself, scheduled to start on 21st september, radio4.

(reads article). oh, it says as much on that site. so how come no-one's mentioned it?

― koogs (koogs), Monday, 13 September 2004 07:32 (nineteen years ago) link

when was that written and made?

― kyle (akmonday), Monday, 13 September 2004 13:28 (nineteen years ago) link

oh duh, I should really click on links before I ask questions.

― kyle (akmonday), Monday, 13 September 2004 13:29 (nineteen years ago) link

one month passes...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/hitchhikers/game.shtml

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Thursday, 11 November 2004 17:06 (nineteen years ago) link

three years pass...

woah woah woah:

From an anonymous source close to the company, I've found myself in possession of the "Infocom Drive" — a complete backup of Infocom's shared network drive from 1989. This is one of the most amazing archives I've ever seen, a treasure chest documenting the rise and fall of the legendary interactive fiction game company. Among the assets included ... the source code and game files for every released and unreleased game Infocom made.

You can play the unreleased sequel to Hitchhiker's!
http://waxy.org/2008/04/milliways_infocoms_unreleased_sequel_to_hitchhikers_guide_to_the_galax/

― stet, Friday, 18 April 2008 11:55 (sixteen years ago) link

Okay, that's amazing.

― Ned Raggett, Friday, 18 April 2008 12:54 (sixteen years ago) link

You bastard! Fucking rickrolls....

― Matt DC, Friday, 18 April 2008 13:03 (sixteen years ago) link

I already did that gag on Freaky Trigger.

― Raw Patrick, Friday, 18 April 2008 13:08 (sixteen years ago) link

You're a bastard as well.

― Matt DC, Friday, 18 April 2008 13:22 (sixteen years ago) link

seven years pass...

https://archive.org/details/infocomcabinet

― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Tuesday, 19 January 2016 21:07 (eight years ago) link

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