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Fans of Douglas Adams?

Discussion in 'Playground' started by Darien Noella, Mar 29, 2001.

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    Remove all ads!
    [​IMG] Then you might be interested in this new game planned for release early next year. It's describes as "an incredibly amusing third person, real-time 3D arcade towel 'em up adventure in the mould of Tomb Raider, Mario 64 and Zelda".
    http://www.eurogamer.net/news.php?id=5426
     
    Darien Noella, Mar 29, 2001
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    [​IMG] Hey! I had (maybe still do somewhere) the original Infocom text adventure for the Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy! Loved the portable infinite improbability drive! :)
     
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    as long as it's better than that 'starship titanic' game, way too short and not enough reward for your efforts, shame the idea wasn't better implemented, thanks for the link, i shall look into it :)
     
    Duskai, Mar 29, 2001
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    'Bistromatics' was my favourite Adams concept. I still can't sit in a restaurant (20 odd years later) without thinking about the unusual behaviour of numbers around me. And worrying, that when I step outside, I'll be in the middle of Lord's Cricket Ground.

    Still, shame about the 'mostley harmless' (I need some cash) end to the series. Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective agency never really took off either (although I thought it showed promise).
     
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    Ah the memories of that text adventure... Having "no tea" as an inventory item, then having tea and no tea at the same time to convince a door that you're intelligent. "The thing that your grandmother gave you that you don't know what it is" as your all-purpose backpack... Using tea-substitute as a source of Brownian motion... The whole sequence of things to get a Babel Fish in your ear...

    Wow... It's been a long time! :)
     
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    [​IMG] Eh, sounds cool, hope it's done better than the TV series of the BBC ;)
     
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    Strange about the TV series, when it first came out I thought it was absolutely brillant and really captured the essence of the books I especially liked the way they did the actual 'book' stuff. However, I brought the box set of videos a few years back and was really disapointed - it seems to have aged so badley. God I miss nostalgia.

    Anyway, did you know that there was a radio show as well as the books and the TV series. At one time they were considering a film. I think the whole thing started with the Radio, then the books, then the TV. All had different stories to suit the medium although they all stuck to the same basic idea.

    PS do you think I might be turning into Dentarthurdent as I'm spending far too much time in a dressing gown.
     
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    [​IMG] I don't think so, but if you are really start turning the most important fact is: DON'T PANIC! :)
     
    BogiTheWaverer, Mar 30, 2001
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