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Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy Remake

This is a graphical remake of the early 80’s Infocom Hitchhiker’s game.

Firstly just in case you haven’t ever heard/read the Douglas Adams classic this game is based on then you need to stop whatever you’re doing and get it into your life before doing anything else. It is one of the few cases where the book pales in comparison to the BBC Radio Series. Go listen now.

The original game was text only and, for my money, among the hardest/most frustrating games ever made. Personally I never even managed to leave the earth with the infocom version!

The remake offers not only graphics but also 2 levels of difficulty. However, if you think the easier level means that this game will be simple and not frustrating then oh boy do you have another thing coming!

I think that, although they are basic, the graphics do add quite a lot to the game and I suspect make it easier. For instance, it only took me a matter of minutes to get out of Arthur’s Bedroom (the very first room) rather than goodness knows how long in the original.

Puzzles vary from quirky to obscure to downright insane. Most of the text is directly lifted from Douglas Adams (after all, he did design the original game) and it is a lot of fun to be in that universe with “a lack of tea” as one of your inventory items once again!

Does anyone have fond memories of the original?

remaking a text adventure is something nice, i didnt play any Infocom, but did they capture the text adventure imaginations nicely, and been loyal enough?

Yep, that’s the one, thanks Wilco!

Just in case anyone wants to revisit or discover for the first time the text adventure, you can play an aniversary edition of it online here http://play.bbc.co.uk/play/pen/g38lb8zppy

I’m not 100% sure if that one is an exact copy of the original but i’m sure it’s close enough!

I’m a big fan of Douglas Adam and The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, so when it was originally made into a game I of course had to give it a try. I was however soon defeated by the infamous Babel Fish puzzle

Now that I know there is a graphic remake, I might just give it another try!

I only knew of the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy before seeing the film a decade ago, but after seeing the film, I immediately bought and read the books. Fun stuff.

I only know of the game (and it’s infamous Babel Fish puzzle), though. I’d probably enjoy playing it, but the alleged difficulty is giving me pause. If that makes me “so unhip it’s a wonder my bum doesn’t fall off” (to paraphrase Zaphod Beeblebrox), then so be it.