Ahead of the movie release of The Hitch Hikers Guide To The Galaxy in a few weeks time, I’ve been playing the classic (ie. very very old) game of the same name.
The BBC have put a spruced-up (and subsequently BAFTA award-nominated) version online – with graphics (egad!). Play the game.
So it was with great interest that I came across Hanna Wallach’s writeup of a recent London event featuring Steve Meretzky and Michael Bywater – both of whom worked with Douglas Adams on his IF games.
Douglas first visited Infocom to discuss possibilities for the game in 1983, whilst at MIT giving a guest lecture. The meeting was successful and it was decided that the game would go ahead, but the lecture less so. Douglas read selected excerpts from HHGTTG, including some Vogon poetry. One member of the audience stood up, ran screaming across the auditorium, crashed through the fire exit and was gone.