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I don’t remember this one. But Douglas Adams was involved in another adventure game with “stunning” graphics called starship titanic. I got a good way through and the characters were fun (some Monty python voices..)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starship_Titanic

Wonder how it holds up.

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It's got a lot of interesting humour, but the while ostensibly a graphic adventure a lot of the game relies on text chat with "chat bot" type logic that was a questionable choice even at the time, and hasn't aged well since.

The game was published by traditional book publisher Simon & Schuster in a very brief foray into videogames. The smartest decision they made was requiring the game to have a novel adaptation (and audiobook of that novel), and the second smartest thing they did was include a copy of the novel and a portion of the audiobook as a feely in the game package for many preorders.

My recommendation is to track down the novel adaptation and audiobook and enjoy them. (Written and voiced by Monty Python alum Terry Jones.) They were superior to the game experience in a number of ways.

ooh neat! i never knew there was an audiobook for it. found it on youtube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oemVk3PYyoU

Tangentially related -- but I love to share this -- I once read a post on metafilter [1] by a developer of that game. Of particular interest is that there was a secret in-game internet forum that developed a real community and that he continued to host on his servers after it went offline. The post is really one of my favorite things on the internet because it really touches on the way games could impact people and the best things about the internet.

[1]: https://www.metafilter.com/98848/The-Post-That-Cannot-Possib...

One of the Starship Titanic developers is also the person who converted this Hitchhikers game to run on the BBC servers.

I excitedly bought that game when it came out, only to find that it wouldn't run on my Windows NT 4 system. Never got to play it.

It's on Steam now

It may not be too late for that.

https://www.gog.com/game/starship_titanic

https://store.steampowered.com/app/467290/Starship_Titanic/

Looks like it's being maintained.

Wow! Thank you!

My pleasure. Enjoy! ;)

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