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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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[–] [email protected] 13 points 9 months ago (2 children)

British slang for porn.

I'm not sure if I'm missing something here...but what did you think "fuck" meant? Lol

[–] [email protected] 19 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

more likely he thought 'video nasty' was slang for porn (unless of course it was a joke)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

Lmao yes, you're absolutely right. That's what I missed.

I still like my misinterpretation though, ahaha

[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

The only English word that can be used as an infix...

It's truly beauti-fucking-ful!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (2 children)

It's absobloodylutely not the only one

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Unbe-cunting-lievable.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Can't bebloodylieve I forgot bloody.

Wait, yes I can, I'm Canadian and we don't use that.

Thanks for the correction!