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Well, Douglas Adams was here at the University of Maryland tonight, along
with copies of his new book "So Long, And Thanks For All The Fish", the
fourth book in the The Hitchhiker's Trilogy.  I have the hardcover edition
in my hot little hands at this moment, and can't wait to start.

During the two hours that he was here, he mentioned that production of the
MOVIE version of The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy is due to begin in
the first half of 1985.  He also said to watch for The Hitchhiker's Guide
To The Galaxy VIDEO GAME to appear in the next few weeks. (Just in time
for Christmas).

It was a weird, wonderful couple of hours with Douglas Adams.. he did a
number of readings from The Restaurant At The End Of The Universe and
Life, The Universe And Everything.  What a guy!


Louis A. Mamakos
Computer Science Center - Systems Programming
Univ. of Maryland.

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	Douglas Adams has just releases HHGTTG in yet another form - that
of a computer adventure. When I first saw the Infocom ads, I figured they
had just bought the rights to it. But lo and behold, when I got it it
shows Douglas Adams as author (and the manual was definitely written by
him). I have not started it yet, but a blurb in the manual states that having
read the books will help only in the early going, the rest is all new.
Looks like another wacky first from Adams.

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					eric
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About that Hitchhikers' Guide to the Galaxy *VIDEO* game:

My LSC connection tells me that Douglas Adams has been working on a game with
Steve Meretsky of InfoCom (the Zork people) -- I believe, therefore, this game
will be a COMPUTER game, not a VIDEO game.  I think Steve's other games include
Planetfall.

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	I have started working over HHGTTG from Infocom. It is immediately
apparent that Douglas Adams played an integral role in creating the game.
The manual reads much like the books (make sure and read the sample dialogue
and other sections you normally skip over). So far the plot of the adventure
has followed the plot of the book, but the puzzles I have encountered so far
have not been helped by knowing the book.

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					eric
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Regarding the HHGTTG Game:
> 
> My LSC connection tells me that Douglas Adams has been working on a game with
> Steve Meretsky of InfoCom (the Zork people) -- I believe, therefore, this game
> will be a COMPUTER game, not a VIDEO game.  I think Steve's other games include
>  Planetfall

Hey, gang, it's already out... I've seen in (although haven't played it) in
Commodore 64, Apple II, and MAC (!) formats.  It comes with a "Don't Panic"
button, some tourist brochures for galactic Hot Spots, and a supply of
authentic lint.

For those not familiar with Infocom games, these are "text" adventures... not
the "move the hero with the joystick" games.  I saw an article which says the
Infocom HHGTTG parallels the book, but familiarity with the book is not
especially helpful.

					     Ron Wanttaja
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"Batteries to power... Turbines to speed..."