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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is a humorous free text adventure game based on the novel of the same name written by Douglas Adams (if you never read it, shame on you!). The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy was designed by Douglas Adams himself and interactive fiction god Steve Eric Meretzky, it was released by Infocom in 1984 for DOS and for Macintosh.

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Main executable file (run this to play the game): hitcguid/Hitchhik.exe

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Collector's corner:

The feelies provided with this game included the following feelies:

  • A pin-on button with "Don't Panic!" printed in large, friendly letters
  • A small plastic packet containing "pocket fluff" (a cottonball)
  • Order for destruction of Arthur Dent's house
  • Order for destruction of Earth written in "Vogon"
  • Official Microscopic Space Fleet (an empty plastic bag)
  • "Peril Sensitive Sunglasses" (a pair of opaque black cardboard "sunglasses")
  • "How Many Times Has This Happened to You?", an advertising brochure for the fictional guidebook/encyclopedia The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

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Additional info about The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Input: keyboard

Distributed on: 3,5 floppy disk, 5,25 floppy disk

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  • Joshua Cargile - 07/10/2020 20:33
    OMG I remember playing this on an old friend's dad's PC back in the 80's. Never got very far...
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