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%27s_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.

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[–] 9 points 2 years ago (4 children)

the only harder text based adventure game of that era was Steven Kings' The Mist. That game was fucked! I cannot tell you how many times my friend and I tried to survive the god dam grocery store!

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Interesting. I had never heard about that game! I'm going to have to check it out now.

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