Calling all old-school gaming nerds! You can now play the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy Text Adventure online! It’s java-based, but I got it to run fine in Mac IE. It’s fun! I keep dying, though. I can’t figure out how to stop the bulldozer. 🙂

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  1. brigita

    want a hint? with regards to the bulldozer, do something opposite of what you would typically do if you wanted to survive…

  2. Kris

    What, you mean lie down in front of it? Yeah, I did that. (I know the books, babe!) But it kept advancing on me, and Mr. Prosser was yelling at me, so at the last second I jumped up and out of the way but a brick from my collapsing house hit me and I died. 🙁

  3. brigita

    take a lesson from yellin…

    if that doesn’t work, there’s always invisiclues. 😉

  4. Moire

    Gah! I managed to get Prosser to lie down in front of the bulldozer for Arthur, but then once I hit the hitchhike button on the Thumb, I end up in the Dark. And I can’t get out of the Dark. grumble grumble stupid game grumble

  5. Kris

    Wow, you’re much further than me! I know the game diverges from the book at some point, but isn’t the “dark” just the bowels of the Vogon ship?

    I made Snookums find me a version of it that I can play (and save) locally. I got tired of starting over every time. I’m gonna see if I can catch you to you, Moire…

  6. Moire

    Yeah, I figured out how to get out of the Dark the first time (type “smell”), but I had a hard time getting myself a babel fish, I couldn’t wake Ford, and then after we make it onto Zaphod’s ship after the Vogons toss us out of the airlock, I get stuck in the Dark again. If I type in “hear” or “listen,” it’s like I’m getting somewhere, but not. Maybe I need to read the book again and refresh my memory… 😉

  7. Anonymous

    man…. you guys have got nowhere…

  8. Anonymous

    here’s a tip: if you’re having that much difficulty, find a walkthru!

  9. Kris

    Here’s a tip: Check the date. We were playing this over a year ago…