Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 8/7/84; site ucbvax.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!ucbvax!grady 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 Article-I.D.: ucbvax.4731 Posted: Mon Feb 11 15:58:11 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 12-Feb-85 06:20:39 EST References: <396@ssc-vax.UUCP> <166@spock.UUCP> Reply-To: grady@ucbvax.UUCP (Steven grady) Organization: University of California at Berkeley Lines: 28 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