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Wow! This is exactly what I’m in the mood for right now. I hadn’t play…

Wow! This is exactly what I’m in the mood for right now. I hadn’t played The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy for ages and I was delighted when the game loaded without any errors. However, the start of the datassette game turned out to be a completely different adventure than the one I had expected … the one from Infocom.

The abort with RunStop worked and it turned out that it was a Basic program that (as you can see in picture two) was written by Bob Chappell on the 22nd of march 1981!?!

Unbelievable, how was that possible?

A little research brought me to the site of Lemon64.com, where I read the following interesting information about the game, which I can’t withhold from you:

Released: 1983 (41 years ago)

Publisher: Supersoft

Coder: Bob Chappell

It was an unofficial pre-Infocom’s Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy game that was hit with a cease and desist lawsuit, resulting in Supersoft removing all references to Douglas Adams and rebranding it as Cosmic Capers. All existing copies were destroyed a couple of years after it was originally released. The game exists in a couple of variants, one with a gray background and one with a black background. The game can be downloaded for free at GTW (https://www.gamesthatwerent.com/gtw64/the-hitchhikers-guide-to-the-galaxy/)

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Wow! This is exactly what I'm in the mood for right now. I hadn't play…

Ursprünglich unter dem Namen Rusty-Invader am 30-05-2024 auf meinem Retrocomputer und Gaming Profil in Instagram gepostet. Wegen Aufgabe von Instagram jetzt hier zu sehen :-)

Jürgen

Ich bin Jürgen und als glücklicher Familienpapa und arbeite als Mediendesigner und entdecke mit unserer kleinen Familie die Welt. Was uns wichtig erscheint, müssen wir hier in unserem Blog niederschreiben. 'Nakieken' ist übrigens Plattdeutsch und bedeutet soviel wie "genauer hinsehen" und genau das ist Programm hier im Blog.

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