| Cerdic | 18 Mar 2014 4:11 a.m. PST |
This is very hard. Took me about 5 goes before I even got out the door! link |
| slugbalancer | 18 Mar 2014 4:21 a.m. PST |
I had that game when it came out back in the 80's. Failed miserable at it. |
Gavin Syme GBS  | 18 Mar 2014 4:28 a.m. PST |
Lordy that was one tough game. Don't make them like that any more. GBS |
| 15th Hussar | 18 Mar 2014 5:06 a.m. PST |
Are there Zork and such type games still avail for modern computers? |
The G Dog  | 18 Mar 2014 5:15 a.m. PST |
Zork actually was embedded within the Call of Duty: Black Ops game for the Xbox. I'm sure you can find a port for a modern computer. |
| Whatisitgood4atwork | 18 Mar 2014 5:45 a.m. PST |
I have already tried and given up. I get frustrated when it says, ‘I don't know what a drawer is', or ‘There is no glass here' When I can see a draw and a glass. |
 20thmaine  | 18 Mar 2014 6:36 a.m. PST |
In the original version there are no drawings ! I've managed to get outside and meet Ford, but he keeps walking away…. ….any….err….hints ???? |
| Cerdic | 18 Mar 2014 6:50 a.m. PST |
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| NCC1717 | 18 Mar 2014 6:51 a.m. PST |
Hints? How about the walkthrough: link |
| Cerdic | 18 Mar 2014 6:51 a.m. PST |
Oh, and follow him to the pub and drink beer. I haven't got much further than that though! |
| Wellspring | 18 Mar 2014 7:44 a.m. PST |
I spent days figuring out how to get that damn fish in my ear. LOVED that game. |
| Eclectic Wave | 18 Mar 2014 8:04 a.m. PST |
I never could get the stupid babel fish in the game. That was one tough game. You really had to work at it. Not like games today, oh no, games that let you win while making you think it was hard, back in my da<RANT,RANT RANT RANT RANT RANT RANT GOD WHEN DID I BECOME A BITTER OLD MAN RANT RANT RANT RANT RANT>ids these days, bah! |
| 15th Hussar | 18 Mar 2014 9:14 a.m. PST |
Be Sure to Drink your M E T A M U C I L ! |
| John the Greater | 18 Mar 2014 12:56 p.m. PST |
I remember the game when it was all text. It drove me nuts, which I beleive was the point. |
| Zephyr1 | 18 Mar 2014 2:29 p.m. PST |
Funnily, I have the original Infocom version of that game in a box within arm's reach. Still has all the ephemera included with it. Going to have to play it again some day. Wonder if Douglas Adams ever played (and beat) it…. ;-) |
| 20thmaine | 18 Mar 2014 5:41 p.m. PST |
@NCC1717 – only if I get really desperate will I follow that link ! At least I can get drunk and die in the pub now, so much better than being killed by a flying brick! Hic  hic ! Cheers. |
 gamertom | 18 Mar 2014 9:24 p.m. PST |
Wow this is not the version I played on the IBM PB with its 8088 processor or the Commodore 64 version I had. There you had to look under the bed and pick up lint and the "thing your aunt gave you" before you went outside. And you needed to collect your mail and save it to use to get the Babel fish. The most frustrating thing I recall abut that version was the game would lie to you at one point and one point. You would look at a particular spot and it would tell you nothing was there and then you had to look at the same spot two more times before the game would admit it was lying and there really was something there! |
| Fish | 19 Mar 2014 3:38 a.m. PST |
i SO loved the text adventure games from Infogames!
Played all of them and managed to compleat almost all. Hitchhiker was awesome but took a while to notice the different approach since occasionally the game lied to you. Like when you had to search a place for multiple time before the game admitted that ithere indeed was something worth your while there to be found :) |
| Wellspring | 21 Mar 2014 1:58 p.m. PST |
Zephr, you'll be thrilled to know that Douglas Adams was a big fan of Infocom and actually worked very closely with them on writing the game. Much of the original humor in the game is his. |
