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[civilstrife]

I don't know how many of you played this when it was first released in 1984, but I figured with the impending movie, you might get a kick out of playing this classic.

http://www.douglasadams.com/creations/infocomjava.html

Enjoy!

To start it, read the instructions on that page.

 

[Fowler]

I played the BBC one a while ago, it's pretty neat. Very funny.

 

[Duck of Death]

A classic text adventure. I miss infocom

Why stop at Hitchhiker's Guide? Play them all!

 

[sonycowboy]

I don't know how many of you played this when it was first released in 1984, but I figured with the impending movie, you might get a kick out of playing this classic.

http://www.douglasadams.com/creations/infocomjava.html

Enjoy!

To start it, read the instructions on that page.

I remember the part with the

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babel fish, the mail, the towel, the cleaning robot, etc.

Damn good times

 

[FnordChan]

Play them all!

Or, at least, most of them. Alas they don't have Adams' other text adventure game for Infocom, Bureaucracy.

A really terrific game with hysterical writing, painfully difficult puzzles, the potential to die from high blood pressure, and llama chow. Musn't forget the llama chow.

FnordChan

 

[gameboya]

the puzzles in those games back then were fucking mind bending rediculously hard. hell i remember playing zork for HOURS on my trash 80. it was sooooooo f'ing hard, plus i was young but man did that game allow your own imagination to paint the pictures, and imo it's better than anything anyone can put create with graphichs because it's your own creation.

 

[DarthWoo]

My favorite memory from any of the Infocom text games was in Leather Goddesses of Phobos, where

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if you're killed by the giant venus flytrap, it secretes an enzyme which stimulates your pleasure centers and causes multiple orgasms as your flesh is quietly dissolved away.

 

[Tamanon]

I just remember having to wrap my brain around having "Tea" and "No Tea" at the same time.

 

[Randam_Hajile]

I used to play this on the Apple IIe at school. That and Zork 1. I still remember

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laying down in front of the bulldozer and typing Z over and over and over until Ford Prefect came to get me

.

Ahhh, nostalgia...

 

[Teddman]

I played it and had a good time in 1986. Don't know if I'd have the patience nowadays...

 

[The Guivre]

It's not the same without my envelope containing my Joo Junta Danger sensitive sunglasses.. : (

 

[BobbyRobby]

It's not the same without my envelope containing my Joo Junta Danger sensitive sunglasses.. : (

I still have the glasses too.

 

[iapetus]

For those suffering from graphics withdrawal, try this...

 

[galeninjapan]

Infocom was the shit. Return to Zork is one of my all time favorite PC games.

 

[olimario]

I used to play this game when I was little.

YOU ENCOUNTER A FLY. WHAT WILL YOU DO?
*attack the fly
YOU CHOSE TO ATTACK. DO YOU WANT TO USE THE BIG AXE OR THE LITTLE AXE?
*little axe
THE FLY HAS BEEN SLAIN

 

[The Guivre]

Infocom was the shit. Return to Zork is one of my all time favorite PC games.

I recall one day my father came home, quite pleased with himself as he handed me the box to "Return to Zork" some re-make or sequel to the original text game, but this one was of course with graphics and what I suppose would qualify as little click menu puzzle sort of things. I just remember having to drink some hillbilly guy under the table by pouring shot after shot of "rye" into a plant, which eventually died.

I picked up Leather Goddesses of Phobos when I found it in my parents' attic along with Suspended, the box for which seemed pretty cool by the way (it had a white plastic mask/face thing on it). I have to say I admire the gamers of that period for having the patience for text based games.

 

[JoshuaJSlone]

I recall one day my father came home, quite pleased with himself as he handed me the box to "Return to Zork" some re-make or sequel to the original text game, but this one was of course with graphics and what I suppose would qualify as little click menu puzzle sort of things. I just remember having to drink some hillbilly guy under the table by pouring shot after shot of "rye" into a plant, which eventually died.

Want some rye?
Course ya do!
Here's to us!
Who's like us?
Daaaamn few!
And they're aaaaaall dead.

I never got through the whole game, but that somehow lodged into my brain.

 

[galeninjapan]

Want some rye?
Course ya do!
Here's to us!
Who's like us?
Daaaamn few!
And they're aaaaaall dead.

I never got through the whole game, but that somehow lodged into my brain.

:lol Brings back memories

 

[The Guivre]

My final memory of Return to Zork was getting to a lighthouse and having to use a Buzzard or some bird talon as a boomerang to toss a rope across a river, at which point you have to use a knot, you learn one from some random guy, the "cow's hitch" or something like that. I never remember anything past that. I think my dad beat it later though, then again he beat the first one before I would've been able to even read what I was doing, or at least do anything meaningful.

Those unforgettable days, for them I live - Omoikane

 

[DDayton]

Time to visit The Interactive Fiction Archive ... NEW text adventures are still being written, you know! Play 'em on nearly anything... your Dreamcast, Palm, Pocket PC, Game Boy Advance...

 

[IAmtheFMan]

Man these things were awesome. In the Chicago Museum of Science and Industry, they had the exhibit on the history of video games, and while everyone was playing Mario Kart, Pac-Man, or Street Fighter II, I was typing in the prompts to this game. Some little kid was watching me.

Out
lie in front of bulldozer
z
z
z
z
Ford what about my home?
Ford, what about my home?
Ford, what about my house?

I don't think he had a friggin' clue what I was doing. :lol

I miss the days. Zork 1 and 2 ruled; didn't really get into 3; got into Enchanter and Sorceror though, and then back into Zork with Zork Zero and Beyond Zork. And then there was one where it's a murder mystery in a house or something. that one was cool. Man, I really liked Return to Zork too...

 

[kamikaze]

i wish i still had the microscopic space fleet that came with it...

 

[Izzy]

Anyone here remembers Scapeghost? The funeral start was eerily symbolic - Level 9 died after that one.