Play The Hitchhiker adventure game ~ by Douglas Adams

HUGE progress towards completing this goal: a couple weeks ago I actually got past the Bridge level on the Heart of Gold! I won’t say how, because that would be spoiler-y, but I’m finally on to the next level. Which is still terrifyingly hard and confusing, but at least I figured it out. Only seventeen years later…

I was ten, which is probably far too young to be playing and understanding the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy game, but I found it in my dad’s stack of old games, complete with ball of fluff, peril-proof sunglasses, and some funny booklets, and tried it out. Needless to say, I didn’t get far. It was the game that made me seek out the book, which is of course amazing and now one of my favourites, and the BBC tv series, which was fairly amusing. Armed with that knowledge, I went back and played the game again. Which, as I’ve mentioned previously, didn’t get me much farther. And then it was abandoned.

It’s funny that this goal popped up, because a month ago at my brother’s bachelor party, I was actually talking to some people about it, and how frustrating it was that I never got past the deck of the Heart of Gold. This time, maybe things will be different!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/hitchhikers/game_nolan.shtml

It is pitch black. What do you want to do?

Go North.

I have a feeling this will be an epic time sponge so I won’t have the goal of completing the game!

Douglas Adams really was one of the brightest and funniest writers ever. My favourite book of his is Last chance to see. http://www.amazon.co.uk/Last-Chance-See-Douglas-Adams/dp/0330320025 Found it in a chairy shop when I was at uni and it’s been a favourite ever since. Lots of food for thought about how we look after this planet of ours.

Here’s a much more eloquent review than I can muster…
By A Customer

beautiful kick in the pants, 5 Mar 2003

If the measure of a book’s worth is the strength of the urge to ‘get out and do something’ that it gives you, then LAST CHANCE… is way up there with the best of them.
Part of Douglas Adams’ brilliance was his ability to make us care about anything he happened to think of: a depressed android, a whale with an incredibly short life-span, Vogon poetry, etc. In LAST CHANCE… he lends his charm to things someone else thought of: the kakapo, komodo dragons, silverback gorillas, Zairean tourist-relations… Along with zoologist Mark Carwardine he goes off in search of several different animals all doing their level best to survive in a world of men which is closing in around them. He breathes life into them, makes them real, makes you care… And then the guilt kicks in.

This book is for anyone – like me – who has ever thought: ‘why do they go on about saving rhinos? If they were meant to survive, they would’. Anyone who has ever used a lazy nod to evolution to justify their own mean-spiritedness. It will put the beauty and wonder back in your life; make you realise that the world rests on a greater foundation than that beneath your own shoes.

Makes you think, makes you laugh, makes you act. What more is there?