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Hitchhiker's Guide / Douglas Adams fans take note! Starship Titanic game re-released!

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thekuribo

After having been lost for a good long while, it is now available again at GOG.com, DRM-free!

Starship Titanic - $5.99

For those unfamiliar with the game, it is a point & click hidden object type of adventure that takes place on a space cruiseship. It carries with it the signature humor of Douglas Adams and also has text parser interaction (think like chatbot interaction) when speaking to the robots on the ship. Fans of Douglas Adams, HOGs, or retro point & click adventure games should definitely check it out!

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MagnificentOne

Oh gosh, if its anything like The Hitchhiker's text adventure game you're in for a real....treat.....

Also, the book this is based on was not written by Douglas Adams, its a spin off by another author.

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thekuribo

The book written by Terry Jones is actually based on this game, not the other way around. Douglas Adams wrote and designed the game (and has some voice acting parts in it, along with Monty Python members Terry Jones and John Cleese).

The Hitchhiker's text adventure games are pretty neat, for anyone interested they can be played with graphical overlays here:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/hitchhikers/game.shtml

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MagnificentOne

Oh really? I didn't know the game came first.

I thought the book was just meh though.

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Nfreak

Wow that's really great!
I have the discs somewhere around here, but getting it to run properly on modern systems has proven difficult. It's a real gem though =)

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thekuribo

<- envious.

I guess this thread is sort of exposing our agedness...

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Nfreak

You might be right, but in that case maybe there's some whippersnappers around here who'll discover a great game!

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K1R4D3L

hmmm...I'm not panicking or anything, but does it come with a towel? ;)

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thekuribo

When you reach the end of the game, you will receive a towel.

THE TOWEL IS A LIE.

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AttackSlugD

Good to know! I actually read the book a few years ago but was never able to track down a copy of the game. (Or rather, gave up on it pretty quickly.) Hoping it shows up on Steam, but I might buy it off of GoG if it doesn't.

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Lugum

No more discswapping. :p

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