The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Don't Panic! Relax, because everything you need to know about playing The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is contained in the pages of this manual. In this story, you will be Arthur Dent, a rather ordinary earth creature who gets swept up in a whirlwind of interstellar adventures almost beyond comprehension. As the story begins bulldozers are waiting to reduce your house to rubble to make way for a motorway bypass. While you attempt to deal with this problem, your rather strange friend Ford Prefect drops by to tell you that the Earth is about to be demolished to make way for an interstellar bypass! If you survive this double threat, you'll embark on a series of inter-galactic misadventures even funnier than your worst nightmares! A special note for people who have read the book "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy". Although the opening of the game is fairly similar to the book, the story quickly diverges, with lots of new material and different twists. Although familiarity with the story may make a few of the early puzzles easier, if you rely too heavily on this previous knowledge you will certainly end up getting misled.

Overview

Title	The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Authors	Steve Meretzky and Douglas Adams
Difficulty	Standard
Product Code	IS4

Release Information

Release Date (Serial Number)	Release Number	Z-Code Version
840914	47	Standard (3)
841221	56	Standard (3)
851002	58	Standard (3) ¹
851108	59	Standard (3) ²
871119	31	Advanced (5) ³

¹ Release found in the Apple version of The Lost Treasures of Infocom I.
² Release found in the Mac version of The Lost Treasures of Infocom I.
³ Release found in the PC version of The Lost Treasures of Infocom I.

Game Statistics

Rooms	31
Words	971
Objects	45
Opcodes	10723

Packaging Details

Hitchhiker's Guide used the standard box format which consisted of a grey box with coloured horizontal stripes. It contained "How Many Times has This Happened to You?" - Hitchhiker's Guide sales brochure, two "Orders for Destruction" (yellow and silver), black cardboard sunglasses, a "Don't Panic!" button, some fluff (in a plastic bag), and a "microscopic space fleet" (empty plastic bag).

The Science Fiction Classics collection consisted of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Planetfall, and A Mind Forever Voyaging in a specially designed trilogy slipcase.

Last revised: Mon Feb 23 21:48:58 EST 1998 / Peter Scheyen <pete@csd.uwo.ca>