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My introduction to H2G2 was the Amiga text based game. I got stuck on heart of gold and to this day don’t know what I was missing. Now I’m going to have to gi

• agiacalone 2y ago
  Apple ][ for me, but essentially the same game. https://archive.org/details/hitchhiker-guide-to-galaxy-manual-apple-ii-images https://archive.org/details/hitchhiker-guide-to-galaxy-manua... I tried so damn hard to beat the game...but in the end, I needed the Invisiclues guide. I was also 9 years old, but I got pretty far (missed the vector plotter puzzle and the end one with Marvin). Even so, it's one of my more proud achievements. :)
  • duskwuff 2y ago
    > essentially the same game Exactly the same game. All of Infocom's text adventures ran under a bytecode interpreter, with the bytecode being shared across all platforms that a game was released on. There are a number of modern interpreters for that format, too; you don't need to emulate an Apple II to play those games (unless you really want to, of course). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z-machine https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z-machine