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Game-A-Minute: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Darien, on host 140.186.100.138
Tuesday, July 6, 1999, at 14:27:19
Re: Game-A-Minute: Every 80's text-based adventure game posted by Faux Pas on Tuesday, July 6, 1999, at 11:43:16:
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Released by Infocom, early eighties
Ultra-Condensed by Darien
GAME: Bulldozers are about to crush your house!
PLAYER: Lie down in front of them, just like in the book.
GAME: It works.
(Time PASSES)
GAME: Get the Babel fish.
PLAYER: Huh? This wasn't in the book... err...
GAME: Get the Babel fish.
PLAYER: Err... http://babelfish.altavista.com?
GAME: Your careless words have destroyed countless galaxies.
(Time PASSES)
GAME: Have tea and no tea at the same time.
PLAYER: What?
GAME: You heard me.
PLAYER: Err... http://www.teaandnoteaatthesametime.com?
GAME: Your careless words have destroyed countless *other* galaxies.
(MORE time PASSES)
PLAYER: All right! I've almost beaten it!
GAME: Sorry, you forgot to feed the dog back at the beginning of the game. You are hopelessly doomed.
PLAYER: AAAAAAHHHHHH!!!!! (Reads through ON-LINE HELP, gets through the GAME step by step, and reads all the FOOTNOTES)
THE END
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