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1. Cougar - Member

   It wasn't on my Atari ST.

   I really should have another crack at this. I've almost but not quite completed it; throughout the game you come across a number of tools as collectable objects (I think there's 14 in total; something similar anyway). At the end of the game you need one at random, but if you've missed picking one up, the game will randomly ask you for the one you've missed. Swine of a thing.

   I'd like to think that I remember most of it. Certainly the early parts I could do in my sleep. Don't forget to feed the dog.

   Posted 5 months ago #
2. philconsequence - Member

   i'd always forget something and end up in the same situation. must've and i hesitate to use the word 'wasted' but yeah... wasted weeks of my childhood when i could've been learning to bunnyhop or something playing that game!

   Posted 5 months ago #
3. Cougar - Member

   Infocom were responsible for a good deal of my gaming history. H2G2, The Lurking Horror, LGOP et al. Happy days.

   Coincidentally, I was playing a text adventure only the other night. There's an annual "interactive fiction" award for short-form adventures, and a lot of the entrants are playable online this year.

   If you've sat there wondering what the heck we're on about, have a punt at this year's winner, Taco Fiction. It's nice and gentle.

   Posted 5 months ago #
4. Gee-Jay - Member

   Damn damn damn, I cannot get Prosser to lie in the mud, cannot compose something pithy and expire in silence

   Posted 5 months ago #
5. Gee-Jay - Member

   Thank god for google

   Posted 5 months ago #
6. BlobOnAStick - Member

   A few months ago I was wondering whether or not my kids would ever 'get' the many references in popular culture to H2G2:

   Don't panic
   42
   Babel Fish
   So long and thanks for all the fish
   etc
   etc

   So I downloaded the entire radio series onto my MP3 player and we now listen to it on long car journeys. I cannot believe how much they love it - although the constant references to digital watches and old-style technology date the work somewhat.

   Instead of taking time to explain the cultural references, I ended up explaining what digital watches, fax machines and matrix printers where! Doh!

   Edit: Back to the OP: Agreed, the kids don't find the concept of an encyclopedia on a 'kindle' at all difficult to imagine, I wonder if there's a market for kindle covers with a friendly 'don't panic' written on them......

   Posted 5 months ago #
7. buzz-lightyear - Member

   We were doing some end-of-year exams in school; I was 12. She said "bring a book to read quietly if you finish early". I brought "The Restaurant at The End of The Universe".

   I got sent out for being "disruptive"

   Some on the best writing ever IMO.

   Posted 5 months ago #
8. Nick - Member

   I've just discovered that Peter Jones, the voice of the book, was born in Wem, Shropshire, which is 4 miles from where I sit and type this.

   Posted 5 months ago #
9. aracer - Member

   I'm somewhat disappointed that I quoted a bit of HHGTTG on the big god thread and everybody missed it. (hint - it's also been quoted on this thread).

   Posted 5 months ago #
10. D0NK - Member

    I'd forgotten about that thread aracer just had a catch up and did spot it

    Lying in the mud, dunno what to do next. Why does the help give the example "Ford, where are you going?" but the game says "I don't know the word you" Think I'll go back to metaphorically bashing rocks together on oblivion

    Posted 5 months ago #

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