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September 22, 2004
The Hitchhiker's Guide is Guideless
Air , Family , Ponderances

So my grandfather had this game on big floppy disks when I was a kid. I think I must have been 11 or so. My grandpa also had a racing game but I have so never been good at racing games. I have always liked thinking games and somehow this text based game appealed to me. So eventually I would end up putting the Hitchhikers guide game in.

At 11 I had not yet read the Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy, but since when did something like that stop me from trying. Amazingly, even at that age I was able to figure out that I needed to take the pill in my pocket and pick up some stuff and go outside to find the bulldozer ready to kill me and my house. I do remember very distinctly never being able to make it past the bulldozer.

Oddly I never got around to reading the books until college, but I finally did and loved them. Since then I have thought back to this game a few times, but never since played it.

Today one of the blogs I read posted a link to the same game I remember from my grandpa's computer. So I sit down to try playing it again. This time I know that I need to lay down in front of the bulldozer.

Well I have tried it a couple times at this point and so far the bulldozer has just run me over again and again. I DON'T GET IT!! What the *&#@@@!*%$ am I supposed to do. So now given its been a few years since I have read the books, but still... why is it I can't get any farther then when I was 11. Grrr....

My guess is that I'm wording things incorrectly or something. Help anybody?

Comments

Fun! I got out of the door, looked at some junk mail and then said "Run South". Suddenly I was standing away from the house, looking back at it and the bulldozer. But when I tried to climb on the bulldozer it destroyed my house and I got hit in the back of the head with a flying brick. Bummer.

Posted by: mark at September 22, 2004 04:44 PM

at this point i have been hit by a brick and had the house collapse on me. When I do something like sit down it tells me that the bulldozer can maneuver around me, but that I'm close. In the book he lays down between the bulldozer and the house... i know i'm just wording something wrong. Ahhhhhh!!!

Posted by: rachel at September 22, 2004 04:56 PM

ohh... this one is exactly how the game looked when I played it as a kid. I like the newer version... but its fun to see it the same way. http://www.douglasadams.com/creations/infocomjava.html

Posted by: rachel at September 22, 2004 05:09 PM

I don't know if this is cheating or not... but I found help!! http://db.gamefaqs.com/computer/doswin/file/hitchhikers_guide_to_the_galaxy_b.txt

Posted by: rachel at September 22, 2004 05:34 PM

i give up... the game is too specific and frustrating... I made it out of the Vogan Captains quarters.

Posted by: rachel at September 22, 2004 06:07 PM
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