Is there a place to download the old Infocom games, or play them on the web somehow? HHGTTG was my favorite game, but I never played LGOP or MFV and would like to.
Steve Meretzky – Working with Douglas Adams on the Hitchhiker's Guide
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#12Is there a place to download the old Infocom games, or play them on the web somehow? HHGTTG was my favorite game, but I never played LGOP or MFV and would like to.
All of them are available to download, and many to play in a browser. A Google search will do the trick.
Re: Steve Meretzky – Working with Douglas Adams on the Hitchhiker's Guide
#13I was chuffed to read that Steve's favorite among his many puzzles was the same as my own (Sorcerer's time-travel puzzle).
Re: Steve Meretzky – Working with Douglas Adams on the Hitchhiker's Guide
#14Is there a place to download the old Infocom games, or play them on the web somehow? HHGTTG was my favorite game, but I never played LGOP or MFV and would like to.
There's a collection of some of them on Steam.
Re: Steve Meretzky – Working with Douglas Adams on the Hitchhiker's Guide
#15We talked with the designer behind games such as The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, A Mind Forever Voyaging and Leather Goddesses of Phobos. American game designer Steve Meretzky startet his career at Infocom, where he created some of the great adventure classics of the eighties. For instance, it was he who got the task of making the official Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy game together with author Douglas Adams…
It took me like two weeks to figure out the babel fish puzzle. I almost gave up, but I could only afford one game at a time then.
Re: Steve Meretzky – Working with Douglas Adams on the Hitchhiker's Guide
#16Is there a place to download the old Infocom games, or play them on the web somehow? HHGTTG was my favorite game, but I never played LGOP or MFV and would like to.
The Internet Archive is your first port of call. For some reason I can't get any of them to load in the browser, but all of the systems are emulatable locally.
https://archive.org/search?query=infocom&and%5B%5D=mediatype...
Re: Steve Meretzky – Working with Douglas Adams on the Hitchhiker's Guide
#17The video for MC Frontalot's "It is Pitch Dark" has a cameo by Meretzky.
Re: Steve Meretzky – Working with Douglas Adams on the Hitchhiker's Guide
#18Is there a place to download the old Infocom games, or play them on the web somehow? HHGTTG was my favorite game, but I never played LGOP or MFV and would like to.
The Z-code images are up on IFDB: https://ifdb.org/viewgame?id=4h62dvooeg9ajtfa
You can click the "play online" link or download the image and play locally with an interpreter like frotz.
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#19We talked with the designer behind games such as The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, A Mind Forever Voyaging and Leather Goddesses of Phobos. American game designer Steve Meretzky startet his career at Infocom, where he created some of the great adventure classics of the eighties. For instance, it was he who got the task of making the official Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy game together with author Douglas Adams…
FWIW, when you submit an article, you can now also immediately comment on it; that's what the text field is for. (But no need, I think, to copy & paste the first two paragraphs from the article.)
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#20The video for MC Frontalot's "It is Pitch Dark" has a cameo by Meretzky. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4nigRT2KmCE
Thanks for the trivia! I love Frontalot, and this is probably my favorite song by him.