Re: HHG - Another MUD   
     By: mrproper to Rassilon on Wed Mar 24 2010 01:49 pm   
      
    >  > Yah, I was looking up some appropriate (and different) door games that I   
    >  > might possibly use & I remembered a great one that I used to play in the   
    >  > 80's called The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.  Great game based on th   
    >  > novels of Douglas Adams.   
    >    
    > love the book, movie, have'nt tried the game.   
      
   Screw the movie.  The movie SUCKED.  Read the books, see the TV series or   
   listen to the Radio Series.  Seriously, you're missing out.   
      
    >  > So, I go out looking for this, thinking by now it's gotta be freeware by   
    >  > now & there HAD to have been someone who ported it to dos.   
    >  >   
    >  > WRONG!   
    >  >   
    >  > This game, written by Infocom in 1984 supports only:  Amiga, Amstrand CPC   
    >  > Commodore 64, DOS, Mac, PC Booter, TI-99/4A, TRaSh-80, and TRaSh-80 CoCo.   
    >    
    > that sucks.   
    >    
    >  > So, seeing that the game is OLD to begin with and it only supports   
    >  > operating s ystems that went out with prohibition, you'd think it'd be   
    >  > cheap or even FREE....   
    >  >   
    >  > WRONG!   
    >  >   
    >  > They want $74 bucks for that damn thing!  I think back in the 80's I paid   
    >  > like $10 to register my copy so that I had something better than ZORK on    
    >  > system.   
    >    
    > that sucks even more, maybe a new one should be developed.   
      
   You couldn't do it without permission from Douglas Adams' wife (he died,   
   unfortunately) and/or the BBC.  You'll notice in the game credits it lists   
   the programmer & Douglas Adams himself.   
      
    >  > Ya, ya, ya...I'm old...I think I broke my hip...   
    >  >   
    >  > But, SERIOUSLY, WTF?!?!  I think someone's got a babel fish inserted into   
    >  > the wrong oriface...   
    >    
    > Greed man.. Greed does many bad things and is what has fucked our world up.   
      
   Greed's one thing but that's just crazy!  $74 for a game that was written in   
   '84?  I understand there's a thing called COLLECTORS but who would pay that   
   much for that?   
      
   -Rassilon...   
      
      
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