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It had never occurred to me that someone might have the game be their first HHGTTG experience over some other media. For me, the BBC television series was my gateway into the world, then the game (I was already hooked on Infocom by then), then the books.

HHGTTG is a .z3 game and is compatible with this project's build of the Infocom source, should you get the urge to play again in another 30 years.

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BBC tv or radio? Seems odd now to think back to a fixed time radio broadcast but I loved the radio show

They aren't misremembering, there was a tv series.

The most interesting part is that of all the Hitchhikers' media, only the original radio series and their published scripts are in complete agreement with each other on all details of world-building.

TV series, absolutely; I've actually never heard the radio program. It aired on PBS in my area along with Monty Python, The Young Ones, and other shows from "across the pond."

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