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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] 4 points 9 months ago (4 children)

How did these text based games work? Could you really type any action and it would give a relevant response?

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

I couldn't find this one, but if you're interested in playing vintage games, Archive.org has a pretty good list. They also had a way to play some of these in-browser, but I can't find it now.

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

Next galaxy is farther than needed.

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

To answer the title question, how many sips left in my glass?

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