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From: grady@ucbvax.ARPA (Steven Grady)
Newsgroups: net.games
Subject: Re: Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (possible spoiler)
Message-ID: <4731@ucbvax.ARPA>
Date: Mon, 11-Feb-85 15:58:11 EST
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Posted: Mon Feb 11 15:58:11 1985
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Reply-To: grady@ucbvax.UUCP (Steven grady)
Organization: University of California at Berkeley
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Summary: 

>I am one of many people who are frustrated and disgusted by that game, because
>as an adventure game it is not a good example of the genre.  It presents the
>player with a simple and unilateral storyline in which there are one or
>two hard puzzles and the rest are simply a matter of correctly adapting the
>novel.  It took us a long time to get the babel fish and the vector plotter,
>and as far as we can tell the others are behind that door Marvin went behind.
>To get past that door, it says you must prove, as with Jimi Hendrix,
>that you are intelligent, by reconciling two irreconcilible things. 
>(The only one I can think of is Advanced Tea Substitute and No tea.  Perhaps
>if you could convince the door of the legitimacy of the substitute and
>the impossibility of its coexistence with the no tea...)
>Also, the spare improbability drive plugs into the control console on
>the bridge.  That takes care of the large plug and I think the small
>plug fits the plotter.  That done, you'd have a working improbability
>drive which might force the door to open.  Of course, I would think that
>the no tea would interface as a brownian motion generator with the
>Vector plotter, but that's just textual evidence.  Good luck, and sorry
>I couldn't help more.  The whole game smacks of a scheme to sell hint booklets.
>
>Charles Kupperman,
>"A citizen of the universe and a gentleman to boot."

Who says you need to plug the large cord in.
Also, the game says that the others all go to port
(presumably for a relaxing sauna).

		Steven Grady