Both Tea And No Tea - Updated Hitchhiker's Game

Ford Prefect writes "To coincide with the new radio series of Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, the BBC will be reviving the old Infocom Hitchhiker's text adventure game, to appear on Radio 4's website. It's not just a straight port, either - apparently 'the new version of the game will be illustrated by Rod Lord, who won a BAFTA for his graphics for the original Hitchhiker TV series.' Hoopy!"

Comments

Been A While

[ackthpt]

It's been a while, but I don't remember Agrajag being in the HHGG game I played on a C64. I do remember being aboard the Heart of Gold, something to do with the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast, entering my own head, but I don't recall Agrajag being in there. Sounds like it's been expanded a bit.

Certainly has taken a while for the sequel, I don't even wear a digital watch anymore! :-)

Re:Been A While

[Mateito]

I don't even wear a digital watch anymore!

Suprisingly, that's actually worth an insightful mod.

On reading that I looked at my watch, thought about three watches I own, tried to think about the 20 odd watches my fiances has (one for each pair of shoes, of course), and I think there isn't a full digital watch among them.

Possible exception is an "analogue" watch that I have with a digital module that displays the date or one of two other timezones, depending wher e I'm travelling.

wicked..

[radarsat1]

i wish text adventure games would come back. this is going to be great! command-line gaming at its best. hey, i've heard rumours that production levels across the nation dipped visibly when Adventure first came out, is that true?

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[kavau]

Not really internet related, but I think Douglas Adams' greatest achievement is that he provided us with a simple answer to the question about life, the universe, and everything. Whenever you engage in a metaphysical discussion about the meaning of life, his answer will invariably come up at some point.

Re:Another generation of frustration

[tuffy]

Worst Puzzle: "put junk mail on satchel". Ok, maybe the three previous steps for getting the fish were somewhat logical, but the "confuse-the-upper-half-of-the-room-robot" step was ridiculous!

I was able to deduce the babel fish puzzle back when the game first came out. Once one remembers the last item the Rube Goldberg-style sequence stops at, it's not hard to figure out what part of your limited inventory to use next.

But "enjoy poetry" was one thing I never figured out until I found a guide to the game.

Re:Obligatory Quote - The Babel Fish

[xgamer04]

Maybe you missed the memo, but creationism and evolutionism are not necessarily mutually exclusive. There do exist Christians/Jews/Muslims/etc who believe a mix of both.