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submitted 9 months ago by FlyingSquid@lemmy.world to c/games@lemmy.world

This is accurate gameplay from the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy text adventure that INFOCOM made with the help of Douglas Adams in 1984.

I thought people would find it interesting to see the way a game would creatively do a demo in print in the 1980s since doing it other ways was either too expensive or not very useful from a marketing perspective.

More info on the game- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hitchhiker%27s_Guide_to_the_Galaxy_(video_game)

It was very challenging. I never got all the way through it. Amazingly, it only covers a small portion of the first book despite taking hours and hours to play.

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[-] SplashJackson@lemmy.ca 4 points 9 months ago

There's an app for android for playing these games that makes it look like you're texting back and forth

[-] MostlyxHarmless@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago

Can you share the app? Thanks!

[-] SplashJackson@lemmy.ca 10 points 9 months ago

Yep, it's called Text Fiction and I set it up a couple years back before the pandemic specifically for this game. I just took a screenshot:

[-] XTornado@lemmy.ml 4 points 9 months ago

Sad it says it's not compatible on my Phone.

[-] lyam23@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago
[-] Retrograde@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

Yeah sadly looks like it's not updated for newer versions of Android :/

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago
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