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• #HOW DO I PLAY ONLINE TEXT ADVENTURE PC#

Another requirement is a Java interpreter,Īnd the final requirement is a keyboard or some other typing device. Requirements to play the actual game online. If you've read this far, congratulations, you clearly have one of the necessary

#HOW DO I PLAY ONLINE TEXT ADVENTURE PC#

The original game as shareware in three formats: Mac, PC and Java. Following many requestsįrom HHG fans and those sad people who still remember it, we're also re-releasing the game that reinvented the art of conversation. Wit, intelligence and humour and created Starship Titanic

At TDV, we've taken the basic need to create products with People have learned to type again and are takingĪn interest in interacting, via their computers, with other people and The Net, and particularly e-mail, has become an integral Infocom and most of its competitors went to the wall - signaling the arrival Game was one of the best-selling games of its era, selling some 350,000Ĭame along and the computer using portion of the human race forgot allĪbout 500,000 years of language evolution and went straight back to theĮlectronic equivalent of banging rocks together - the point'n'click game. So it proved - the Hitchhiker's Guide adventure To the Galaxy, the result was never going to be less than interestingĪnd more than likely insane. With Douglas Adams to create a game based around the Hitchhiker's Guide So when Steve Meretzky of Infocom got together That any game which combined a really good programmer with a really good Game designers wrote creatively enough to misunderstand you in a humorousĪnd entertaining fashion, it all worked. Usually not - the early text parsers (circa 1977) weren't that bright.īut, as long as you limited yourself to what the game understood and the With a breathtakingly prescient understanding of your intent. The game would then respond to your commands

This was radical - a computer game you couldĬontrol by typing in commands. They certainly couldn't have graphics, soundĪnd enough content to keep even a human being amused for more than a few Or at least they couldn't have graphicsĪnd sound at the same time. ILLUSTRATION OF THE TEXT ADVENTURE'S OPENING SCREENĬomputer games didn't have graphics. Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Infocom Adventure DNA/Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Infocom Adventure