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Game-A-Minute: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Posted By: Darien, on host 140.186.100.138
Date: Tuesday, July 6, 1999, at 14:27:19
In Reply To: 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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