This is accurate gameplay from the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy text adventure that INFOCOM made with the help of Douglas Adams in 1984.

I thought people would find it interesting to see the way a game would creatively do a demo in print in the 1980s since doing it other ways was either too expensive or not very useful from a marketing perspective.

More info on the game- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hitchhiker's_Guide_to_the_Galaxy_(video_game)

It was very challenging. I never got all the way through it. Amazingly, it only covers a small portion of the first book despite taking hours and hours to play.

  • AngryCommieKender@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    8 months ago

    I got so frustrated getting killed over and over that I typed:

     Fuck Ford

    into the prompt. The game responded with:

     This is a family entertainment game, not a video nasty.

    Which is how I found out that was British slang for porn. graphic horror films, apparently.

    • havocpants@lemm.eeEnglish
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      8 months ago

      Video nasty was slang for graphic horror movies, not porn. Not heard anyone say it since the 80s though.

    • otp@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      8 months ago

      British slang for porn.

      I’m not sure if I’m missing something here…but what did you think “fuck” meant? Lol