A promotional article by game writer Michael Bywater.Original concept art by Oscar Chichoni, the Academy Award-winning designer of the game's environments.A highly amusing story about an unusual contest tied into the novel and one fan's quest to crack it.or click inside for a information on how to run the game for free on Windows, Mac, and Linux (along with a bunch of other goodies!).Įxcerpts of extra material included with the original copy of the game, including a fictional newspaper, profiles for all the bots and helpful guides to their 'cellpoint' settings, the rantings of the infamous parrot, background articles from the strategy guide, and a map of the ship ( source for scans).

Want to experience the voyage for yourself? Then watch this narrated video playthrough ( intro (ads) - 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9? 10 11 12 13). Key to solving these puzzles was the game's groundbreaking communications system - players interacted with the ship's robotic crew through a natural language parsing engine called SpookiTalk, whose 10,000+ lines of conversational dialogue spawned 16 hours of audio recorded by professional voice actors, including John Cleese, Terry Jones, and even Douglas Adams himself in several cameos ( spoiler cameo). The game was laden with extra content, including an in-depth strategy guide, a (mediocre) tie-in novel by Terry Jones, a whimsical First Class In-Flight Magazine, and even a pair of 3D glasses for one of the more inventive puzzles. Unbeknownst to many fans, this small piece of Adamsian lore was the inspiration for an ambitious and richly-detailed side-story: a 1998 computer adventure game called Starship Titanic.ĭesigned by Douglas Adams himself, the game set players loose in the infamous vessel, challenging them with a maddening mystery laced with the devilish wit of the novels. Halfway through the third book of the Hitchhiker's Guide series, there is a throwaway reference to a doomed starship, one whose incredible splendor was matched only by the cosmic absurdity of its maiden-day annihilation.īut the story didn't end there.

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