Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy is a classic Interactive Fiction game. Though divergent from the source material, the main characters, locations, and concepts are here. Unlike the book, death can come…
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is an adventure developed by Infocom, released 14 September 1984 on Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Amstrad PCW and Apple II.
What The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is an adventure game developed by Infocom and released in 1984. It is available on Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Amstrad PCW, Apple II, Atari 8-bit, Atari ST/STE, Commodore 16, Commodore C64/128/MAX, Commodore Plus/4, DOS, Mac, Tatung Einstein, Texas Instruments TI-99, TRS-80, TRS-80 Color Computer and Web browser.
The premise, in the publisher's words
You are Arthur Dent, an Englishman with a bad hangover wearing a dressing gown containing a much needed buffered analgesic and some fluff. Your house has just been destroyed, followed shortly thereafter by your planet Earth (mostly harmless). You’ve been rescued by your friend Ford Prefect, who’s not actually an out-of-work actor. He has given you a book (The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy), a towel, and is now telling you to put a fish in your ear. It must be a Thursday; you’ve never quite gotten the hang of Thursdays.
How it plays
It is played from a text perspective. Its themes are comedy and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
How long it takes, and what that costs
A full completion run takes around 35 hrs.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
Screenshots
All media
Quick answers
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