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THE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY
Part One
Put your "DON'T PANIC!" button on your gown, grab your towel and get
ready to don those peril sensitive sunglasses because you're about to go
on one of the strangest adventures from Infocom to date: THE HITCHHIKER'S
GUIDE TO THE GALAXY!
You wake up and notice everything is dark...have you gone blind? No,
just turn on the lights. Oooh, your aching head! You realize you must've
had just one drink too many at the party last night. Time to get out of
bed. Stand up, get your gown and put it on. As you do, you notice
something in your pocket. All this activity isn't helping your hangover
any, so look in your pocket. Ah, an analgesic! Take the analgesic.
Feeling better? Good! Now get the screwdriver and the toothbrush. Oh!
What was that noise? What's that big, yellow bulldozer doing out there?
Better go outside and find out!
Go south to your front porch, collect your mail, and south to your
front yard. The big, yellow bulldozer is heading straight for you! And
this lunatic is shouting at you to get the hell out of the way! Don't
Panic! Humanity hasn't gone completely insane, just lie down in front of
the bulldozer. The driver (who's getting Union Scale wages) doesn't mind
this minor inconvenience and stops the 'dozer within inches of you!
As Prosser madly waves his arms about and shouts at you, you see your
friend, Ford Prefect, hurrying toward you. Now what does he want? Oh,
he's come to return the towel he borrowed from you. Nope, don't take it.
As Ford insists on returning the towel, you tell him about your house
and Prosser's intentions. Ford, who was about ready to leave the Earth
(which is being demolished to make way for a new Hyperspace Bypass),
decides, insanely, to take you with him! But seeing that you're not
about to budge until your house's future has been assured, goes to
Prosser, gesticulates toward you and the bulldozer, and convinces
Prosser to take your place in the mud. What a friend! The bulldozer
driver, in the meantime, sits calmly and dreams of overtime.
After you've regained your feet, take the towel from Ford and go south
and west with Ford into the Pub. Buy a cheese sandwich from the barman,
drink the three beers Ford has given you, and listen as he explains
what's about to happen to the Earth. Somehow, the situation regarding
your house keeps creeping back into your mind, and Ford's words make
little sense to you. All of a sudden, you hear a crashing sound that can
only be the death throes of your poor house being demolished! Get up and
go east.
A small dog comes yapping up to you. It's obvious the poor thing hasn't
eaten in several days. The humanitarian within you surfaces. Give the
cheese sandwich to the dog. The poor, ravenous thing is in puppy heaven!
As it devours the meal you've provided, it completely ignores a
microscopic space fleet that just happens to be passing by at the
moment! No time to wonder about this miracle, though. Go north and wait.
Now look! Overhead, you see huge yellow machinery that amazingly
resembles monstrously oversized bulldozers! Good God! What's happening?
Suddenly, gale-force winds blow across the landscape, whipping trees
around! Ford appears by your side and is fumbling around with a strange
looking device! The thing your Aunt gave you tumbles away, but the wind
is blowing so hard you can't get it!
Ford drops the device and it lands at your feet. He seems to be trying
to tell you something, but the wind carries his words away! Pick up the
device and examine it. You see red and green lights and note that it's
curiously shaped. It appears to be shaped like a hitchhiker's thumb!
Quickly push the green button and everything goes....
Dark. You will find yourself spending a lot of time in the dark in this
game, so get used to the series of events you have to follow in order to
see where you are. Do "looks" (which takes fewer moves than "waits").
Each "DARK" sequence takes 4 looks until you regain one of your missing
senses. When you recover that sense, perform it. If you can see, type
"SEE". If you can hear, type "LISTEN". If you can smell, type "SMELL".
If you can feel, type "FEEL". If you can taste, type "TASTE". Right now,
though, your 4 LOOKS will tell you that you have regained your sense of
smell.
Smell the shadowy figure and then look at the figure. Ah, it's Ford and
you find that the Sub-Etha Signalling Device has landed you a ride on
one of the Vogon Construction Ships! Ford hands you some peanuts to
replace the energy you lost during the hitchhiking transfer. Eat the
peanuts then look around you. What a disgusting place this is! But there
are a few interesting items here which you will explore as soon as Ford
decides to take his nap. Before he does, he hands you an odd contraption
and tells you it's THE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY and that it
contains all sorts of useful information. After Ford nods off, remove
your gown and hang it on the hook, cover the drain with your towel, get
Ford's satchel and put it in front of the panel and put your junk mail
on top of the satchel. I've had you do this correctly so that you can
get the Babel Fish the first time. You might want to save your game and
try getting the Babel Fish without putting the junk mail on the satchel,
just so you can see what happens. Now, examine the dispensing machine
and consult the Guide about Babel Fish.
You learn that Babel Fish, when placed firmly in one's ear, are
universal translating devices! Flip the switch on the glass case that's
housing the Plotter. Strange words issue forth, but it's all garbled and
you can't understand one syllable of it! Better get a Babel Fish pretty
soon! Push the button on the dispensing machine and watch the circus! As
the Babel Fish comes flying out of the chute, a tiny cleaning robot
comes skittering across the room. The Babel Fish hits the gown, slides
down the sleeve and lands on the towel (which is covering the drain).
The little robot grabs the Babel Fish and goes tearing across the room
toward its service panel. Just as it gets there, it smacks into Ford's
satchel and loses its grip on the Babel Fish! The Babel Fish and the
junk mail go flying up into the air where an upper-half-of-the-room
cleaning robot is frantically gathering up the junk mail! So intent is
it upon the mail that the Babel Fish falls and lands in your ear!
SQUISH! Who said junk mail was useless!
Now, flip the switch on the glass case again. It will tell you how to
open the case so that you can get the Sub-Atomic Plotter. Poetry? Ah
well, worse things could happen. Write down which word of the poetry
you'll have to type in because it changes from game to game; and if you
type in the wrong word, you'll blow yourself to teensy little bits! Get
your robe and the towel. Ford will get his satchel. Put your gown back
on and put everything you're carrying into the Thing your Aunt gave you
(yes, it came back...it will ALWAYS come back to you, no matter how many
times you try to lose it!) and put the Thing in your robe pocket. By
now, you should be hearing warnings about hitchhikers coming over the
intercom system. Just wait until the guards come for you.
THE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY
Part Two
Eventually, the Vogons will find you and take you to the Vogon Captain,
who is a cruel cuss! He'll subject you to his poetry, but don't panic!
Just sit back, relax and enjoy it. Literally! Enjoy the Poetry. So
gratified is the Captain by your enjoyment, that he decides to read you
the second verse! Now listen carefully, and when he reads the word the
glass case told you about, write it down. He appears impressed that
you've been able to withstand his poetry; and instead of killing you and
Ford outright, he decides to "space" you! Argh! This is better than
death? You betcha!
Pretty soon, you're going to type something in wrong along the way.
Your typing error has been noted, and sometime soon, you'll get the
results of your foolish error! It seems that those erroneous words have
started some sort of space war that has destroyed an entire world! The
remaining members of that doomed civilization are not happy about it
eithe