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Douglas Adams' Starship Titanic game website (1998)

starshiptitanic.com

37 pointsgalapago16 comments

Still have the original box and cds in the attic. Loved that game as a kid but was never able to finish it - similar to Grim Fandango in my memory.

Watched a friend of mine play some of it. All I remember is the game repeatedly saying "pistachio!"

I liked how it came with a pair of blue and red anaglyph glasses that are only used at the very end of the game. I had lost them before I got there years after I bought it, most of the puzzles were complete bs.

I got almost to the end of Grim Fandango and it bugged and I couldn't find the thing the walk through said I should! It was very frustrating.

John Cleese as the bomb was a particularly fun role. This game just had a ton of personality.

The notion of a "full size" screen shot has changed a bit in twenty years.

Well, it hasn't as that postage stamp was the full size of the asset.

The good old days when 800x600 was considered solid and 1024x768 luxurious

I would gladly pay $20 to get this the same treatment as Star Trek: Borg

https://borgremastered.com

That game was not really remastered, but instead they "used AI to remaster the original game footage to HD quality using a rare Japanese DVD release of the game". It is also not an official release (the game is not sold in any digital platforms, unfortunately).

Clicking on "Mac version of Starship Titanic launches" leads to 404 not found.

Edit: I'm not sure what OP's relationship to site is so maybe my post is useless.

It's a 26-year-old marketing site, so probably no changes coming, no.

> Does it work on XP?

> Yes! Or rather, yes, it works until you install Service Pack 2, which upgrades the Cinepak® Codec to a special non-working version. The solution is to download Cinepak version 1.10.0.11 from the wonderful folks at Providenza & Boekelheide, who wrote the codec in the first place. Copy the DLL from the zip file into the Starship Titanic program file folder, and you're done!

It's OLD alright. I never thought I'd see XP listed as the new bleeding edge option.

The.FAQ is pretty fun. Be sure to check out the mailing list sign up page -- there's a pretty funny pull down menu there.

A remainder that the game can be played using ScummVM[1]

[1]: https://wiki.scummvm.org/index.php?title=Starship_Titanic

It's also available for purchase on GOG despite not being listed as a place to buy it on the Starship Titanic site.

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