Hitchhiker's Guide Game

The BBC have represented the text adventure game for "The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy" here. It's great fun, and there's even a hints section, for when you get stuck, and want to smash up your monitor!

It takes me back to the days when I owned a ZX Spectrum, and used to play text adventures, because the graphics were rubbish. My favourite, and by far the most popular was the Hobbit. Today's hysteria over Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings trilogy was nothing compared to the views on this game. There's a good nostalgia site called the Good Old Days that remembers the game fondly (and you can even download it).

In fact, there's quite a large web community for text adventures, but if you want to try a couple out, you could always try a few Infocom games at this site.