This is one of the funniest games ever made! Makes sense on account of Douglas Adams himself wrote it. It's playable on the BBC website for free. Do yourself a favor and check it out. 10/10
You know this game is faithful when the first item listed in Arthur Dent's inventory is literally NO TEA.
As an adult I can see what Adams and Meretsky were trying to accomplish with the form. Heck, even as an 8-9-year-old, I could tell this was a special game. It's how I learned what dressing-gowns and analgesics are. The tone of narration, and even the logic of the puzzles, connected with me and pushed me to read H2G2, which I loved.
But mid-to-late period Infocom had a psychological complex about difficult puzzles, so I never made it past the Babel fish machine. It feels like it took months (so maybe weeks?) to get there. Such a waste.
But mid-to-late period Infocom had a psychological complex about difficult puzzles, so I never made it past the Babel fish machine. It feels like it took months (so maybe weeks?) to get there. Such a waste.