{"id":11933,"date":"2011-05-25T12:33:00","date_gmt":"2011-05-25T10:33:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"hitchhiker-s-guide-to-the-galaxy-game-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/11933-hitchhiker-s-guide-to-the-galaxy-game-announced","title":{"rendered":"Hitchhiker\u2019s Guide to the Galaxy game announced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hothead Games &ndash; purveyor of such fine titles Penny Arcade Adventures and Deadspank &#8211; has announced that they&rsquo;re doing a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/radio4\/hitchhikers\/game.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">Hitchhiker&rsquo;s Guide to the Galaxy game.<\/a> That&rsquo;s pretty much it, though. No details, no platform info, no release date, not even some Vogon poetry.<\/p>\n<p>Officially, there&rsquo;s been only one video game adaptation of the series, in the form of an Infocom text adventure, released in 1984, and co-written by Douglas Adams himself.<\/p>\n<p>The game was notorious for a difficult puzzle involving the acquisition of a Babel Fish, which &ndash; if not solved within a certain number of turns &ndash; would render the game unwinnable, but without informing the player of this unhappy turn of events.<\/p>\n<p>Infocom later marketed a t-shirt with the slogan &ldquo;I got the Babel Fish&rdquo;, but didn&rsquo;t apologise for being such a bunch of bastards.<\/p>\n<p>In 2004, the BBC celebrated the game&rsquo;s 20-year anniversary by relaunching it online with a Flash interface and pretty pictures.<\/p>\n<p>Go on, it&rsquo;s not like you have anything important to do today.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/13853-Hitchiker-s-Guide-to-the-Galaxy-game-announced-by-Hothead-Games?p=432293#post432293\" target=\"_self\">Discuss Hitchiker&#8217;s Guide to the Galaxy game<\/a> in the forums<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Towels sold separately<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11933","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11933\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}