can't say I have, but I'll look it up!

I played the HHGTTG adventure game on my old amstrad when I was a kid. That was an absolute killer of a game! So hard in fact that they ran a competition in "Amtix" the Amstrad Games mag for the first person to finish it....the magazine went out of circulation after 2 years and to date nobody had finished it!

@Gromit, why was it so hard and how was it set up?

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it was an "adventure game" in the 80s sense of the word....remember the old school text based games...?..."you are in a room, there are exits to the north, south, east and west etc"...."LOOK UP"...."EXAMINE BOX" etc etc

But it was ridiculously hard to do. You play Arthur Dent and start off on earth with nothing on but a dressing gown, lieing in front of a bulldozer.

Sounds good yes? Well yes...but I'll put it this way, I know the books backwards and it took me almost a month of solid playing to hitch a ride and get off earth.

The furthest I ever made it was to a poetry reading and then ejection from the ship. This took me almost a year. I was obsessed with it - and the competition that Amtix were running really wasn't helping matters.

I heard a rumour that someone made it to the restaurant at the end of the universe, but I don't know whether thats true or not. If you're really interested have a look around the web - you'll need an Amstrad CPC 464 or CPC 6128 emulator before you can play it though. I did manage to find it about a year ago so I know its out there somewhere. I tried again last year thinking "aaah I was young, I'll be able to do it this time"....oooohhhh how wrong I was

Nah, I have a hard enough time dealing with my own words. And never heard of Amstrad before.

But Starship Titanic, while newer, is partially text based as well. You can use a mouse and type conversations to the robots. It made for an interesting forumla. Because the robots had people personalities, you could p* them off or get them to like you. And with their responses in sound, sometimes the conversations ended up being very funny.

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Zlo, you blasphemer! The Guide was a great book!!! Somebody gimme a towel, I'll give him a rat-tail

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