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{{Infobox video game
| title = The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
| image = Hitchhikers Guide box art.jpg
| caption = 
| developer = [[Infocom]]<ref>{{cite magazine |last=Murphy |first=Jamie |others=Reported by Cristina Garcia |title=Stepping into the Story: Players participate in 'interactive fiction' |magazine=Time |date=13 May 2013 |volume=125 |number=19 |page=64 |quote=Infocom, the Cambridge-based software company that pioneered interactive fiction, has released an electronic version of Douglas Adams' popular novel ''The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy'' ($39.95), which last week jumped to No. 1 on ''Billboard's'' list of top computer software.}}</ref>
| publisher = [[Infocom]]
| designer = [[Douglas Adams]]<br>[[Steve Meretzky]]
| engine = [[Z-machine]]
| released = {{vgrelease|NA|November 1984<ref>{{Cite news |date=October 18, 1994 |title='Galaxy' Goes Electronic |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/101735578 |access-date=May 5, 2024 |work=[[The Cincinnati Enquirer]] |pages=54 |quote=Infocom, the company behind "Zork," "Deadline" and several other "interactive fiction" text-adventure computer games, will release "Hitchhiker" Nov. 1 (retail price: $39.95).}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Kosek |first=Steve |date=November 9, 1984 |title=Peanuts gang leads the way with new round of video games |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/388399012 |access-date=May 5, 2024 |work=[[Chicago Tribune]] |pages=166 |quote=Activision will be releasing "Ghostbusters," a strategy game designed after the hit movie with Dan Aykroyd and Bill Murray, and Infocom is just about to begin distribution of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy," an all-text adventure designed by Douglas Adams, whose best-selling science-fiction trilogy has inspired a cult following on college campuses.}}</ref>|EU|3 January 1985<ref>{{cite magazine |title=Special Feature: Happy Birthday! |magazine=[[Popular Computing Weekly]] |date=1 May 1987 |pages=14–18 |url=https://archive.org/details/popular-computing-weekly-1987-05-01/page/n17}}</ref>}}
| genre = [[Adventure]], [[Interactive fiction]]
| modes = [[Single-player]]
| platforms = [[Amiga]], [[Amstrad CPC]], [[Amstrad PCW]], [[Apple II]], [[Apricot PC]], [[Atari 8-bit]], [[Atari ST]], [[Commodore 64]], [[CP/M]], [[MS-DOS]], [[Epson QX-10]], [[Kaypro II]], [[Mac (computer)|Mac]], [[Osborne 1]], [[TI-99/4A]], [[TRS-80]],<ref>[http://adventure.if-legends.org/Infocom.html#The_Hitch-Hikers_Guide_to_the_Galaxy Adventureland] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090923202454/http://adventure.if-legends.org/Infocom.html |date=23 September 2009 }} by Hans Persson and Stefan Meier</ref> [[Adobe Flash|Flash]]<ref>[http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/hitchhikers/game.shtml BBC RADIO 4, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20041018075708/http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/hitchhikers/game.shtml |date=18 October 2004 }}, text adventure game, freely available in Flash</ref>
}}

'''''The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy''''' is an [[interactive fiction]] video game based on the comedic science fiction series [[The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy|of the same name]]. It was designed by series creator [[Douglas Adams]] and [[Infocom]]'s [[Steve Meretzky]], and it was first released in 1984 for the [[Apple II]], [[Mac (computer)|Mac]], [[Commodore 64]], [[CP/M]], [[MS-DOS]], [[Amiga]], [[Atari 8-bit computers]], and [[Atari ST]]. It is Infocom's fourteenth game.

==Plot==
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The game loosely mirrors a portion of the series' plot, representing most of the events in [[The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (novel)|the first book]]. [[Arthur Dent]] wakes up one day to find his house about to be destroyed by a construction crew to make way for a new bypass. His friend [[Ford Prefect (character)|Ford Prefect]], who is secretly an [[extraterrestrials in fiction|extraterrestrial]], helps to calm Arthur down and hitches them a ride on one of the ships in the approaching [[Vogon]] constructor fleet, moments before the fleet destroys the Earth to make way for a new hyperspace bypass.

Aboard the ship, Arthur learns that Ford is a journalist for ''The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy'' and has been on Earth researching the planet for the Guide. The two are discovered by Vogons and subjected by the captain to a reading of his poetry. The two manage to survive this, and the Vogons throw them into the airlock and shoot them out into space. By a huge improbability, they are picked up in the last moment before they die of asphyxiation by the spacecraft ''Heart of Gold'' while it is traveling on Infinite Improbability Drive. After getting safely aboard the ship, Arthur and Ford meet Ford's friend [[Zaphod Beeblebrox]], who had stolen the ''Heart of Gold'' as his first act of office as the Galactic President, as well as Arthur's friend [[Trillian (character)|Trillian]] (Tricia McMillan), whom Zaphod had picked up from a party on Earth. Zaphod wants to travel to the legendary planet of Magrathea, believing it to hold a great secret.

At this point, Zaphod leaves the task of getting to Magrathea to the ship's computer Eddie, and he, Ford, and Trillian depart to the ship's sauna. Arthur finds Eddie incapable of getting to Magrathea without help. Arthur initially tries to help by supplying the Infinite Improbability Drive with a tea substitute from the ship's Nutrimatic device to serve as a source of [[Brownian motion]], but this only causes Arthur to temporarily take on the consciousness of Ford, Zaphod, and Trillian in their respective pasts, and he must manipulate events such that items in these past periods are brought aboard the ''Heart of Gold'' in the present. Through this, Arthur gains enough parts as to replace the circuit board in the Nutrimatic so that it can produce real tea. This tea is powerful enough to power the Drive to get them to Magrathea, but in orbit, the ship is attacked by two missiles from the surface. Arthur employs the Drive again to change the missiles into a sperm whale and a bowl of petunias, neutralizing the threat.

The ship prepares to land, but the computer will not let them do so. Again, the other three head off to the sauna, leaving Arthur to figure out how to fix this. This requires Arthur to reach [[Marvin the Paranoid Android]]'s closet on the ship in order to get the final tools needed to fix the computer and get it to land. The game ends as Arthur and the others are about to set foot on Magrathea.

==Gameplay==
[[File:Hitchhikers_guide_bbc_thirtieth_anniversary_game.png|thumb|right|Screenshot of the 30th anniversary edition of the game. The original text-based game is effectively presented in the top-left window, and additional graphical interface elements added for the anniversary edition.]]
''The Hitchhiker's Guide'' is a [[text adventure game]] in which the player, in the role of Arthur Dent, solves a number of puzzles to complete various objectives to win the game. This includes collecting and using a number of inventory items. The player has a limited variety of commands to observe, move about, and interact with the game's world, such as <code>"look"</code>, <code>"inventory"</code>, <code>"north"</code> (to move north), <code>"take screwdriver"</code>, or <code>"put robe on hook"</code>. Most commands will advance the game's turn counter, and some puzzles require the player to complete it within a fixed number of turns or else the game may end and require the player to restart at the beginning or a saved state; passive commands like "look" and "inventory", or mistyped or non-comprehended commands, do not count as turns. Once the player has acquired the eponymous ''Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy'', a wide variety of topics can be asked about, some of which may be helpful in solving the game's puzzles.

In both the game's 20th- and 30th-anniversary editions, the game's interface is augmented with graphics that help to map out the locations and other features, though the player is still required to type in all commands.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theverge.com/2014/3/8/5484666/the-classics-the-hitchhikers-guide-to-the-galaxy-text-adventure |title=The Classics: 'The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy' text adventure |first=Andrew |last=Webster |date=4 March 2014 |access-date=11 March 2014 |website=[[The Verge]] |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140310202501/http://www.theverge.com/2014/3/8/5484666/the-classics-the-hitchhikers-guide-to-the-galaxy-text-adventure |archive-date=10 March 2014 }}</ref>

==Feelies==
[[File:Don't Panic Badge.jpg|thumb|The "Don't Panic" [[feelie]] button.]]
Most Infocom games contained "[[feelies]]", bonus novelty items included to enhance the immersiveness of the game. The feelies provided with this game included:
*A pin-on button with "Don't Panic!" printed in large, friendly letters
*A small plastic packet containing "[[pocket fluff]]" (a cottonball)
*Order for destruction of Arthur Dent's house
*Order for destruction of Earth written in "Vogon" (actually an English cryptogram written in a thinly-disguised [[Greek alphabet]]. The text was nearly identical to that of the English Order for Destruction)
*Official Microscopic Space Fleet (an empty plastic bag)
*"Peril Sensitive Sunglasses" (a pair of opaque black cardboard "sunglasses")
*''How Many Times Has This Happened to You?'', an advertising brochure for the fictional guidebook/encyclopedia ''The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy''
*"No tea: Just like the tea professional hitchhikers don't carry!" (in fact, nothing)

==Reception==
''The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy'' gained a reputation for deviousness. ''[[Computer Gaming World]]'' reported on rumors that "several important people within the [video game] industry cannot (snicker, snicker!!!) even get out of [the] first room!"<ref name="adams198501">{{cite magazine | title=Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Leads an Invasion of the Pros | magazine=Computer Gaming World | date=January 1985 | author=Adams, Roe | pages=17}}</ref> [[Jerry Pournelle]] advised non-readers of the novel against playing the game, and warned that "even if you've memorized the book, these puzzles are ''hard''".<ref name="pournelle198508">{{Cite magazine |last=Pournelle |first=Jerry |date=August 1985 |title=The West Coast Computer Faire |url=https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1985-08/page/n300/mode/1up?view=theater |magazine=BYTE |pages=293–326 |access-date=2023-11-05}}</ref> Perhaps the most notorious instance involved getting a Babel Fish out of a dispenser in the hold of the [[Vogon]] ship, which would translate the Vogon language to English. This tricky puzzle appeared early in the game and required the player to use a variety of obscure items in a specific fashion, some which had to be obtained in earlier, but non-revisitable, sections of the game, to create a [[W. Heath Robinson|Heath Robinson]] (or [[Rube Goldberg machine|Rube Goldberg)-like chain of events]]. The puzzle further had to be "solved" within a limited number of turns. Failure to "solve" the Babel Fish puzzle did not kill the player, but rendered the remainder of the game [[unwinnable]], as one subsequent puzzle requires the player to gain a passcode based on Vogon-written instructions, otherwise undecipherable without the Fish.<ref>{{cite book | title = Python Beyond Python: Critical Engagements with Culture | chapter = Starship Titanic and the Perils of Pythonesque Gaming | pages =219–238 | isbn = 978-3319513850 | year = 2017 | first=  Robert | last = Buerkle | editor-first = Paul | editor-last = Reinsch | editor-first2 = B. Lynn | editor-last2 = Whitfeld | editor-first3=Robert | editor-last3 = Weiner | publisher = [[Springer International Publishing]] }}</ref> That particular puzzle became so notorious for its difficulty that Infocom wound up selling T-shirts bearing the legend, "I got the Babel Fish!"<ref>[http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/hitchhikers/stevem.shtml Interview with Steve Meretzky, co-author of the Game] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160111084829/http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/hitchhikers/stevem.shtml |date=11 January 2016 }} from [[BBC Radio 4|BBC – Radio 4]]</ref> Adams stated that the puzzle's difficulty, and the notable game play change that it begins, was intentional; "Just as the player gets comfortable in the narrow neck, the bottom drops out!"{{r|adams198501}}

''The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy'' was very successful. It sold 59,000 copies in 1984—in second place among Infocom games, after ''[[Zork I]]''—and with 166,000 copies it was the company's best-selling title in 1985, more than twice as many as ''[[Wishbringer]]''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.gamesetwatch.com/2008/09/great_scott_infocoms_alltime_s.php |title=Great Scott: Infocom's All-Time Sales Numbers Revealed |date=20 September 2008 |work=GameSetWatch |publisher=Think Services |access-date=23 September 2008 |first=Simon |last=Carless |author-link=Simon Carless |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080924074642/http://www.gamesetwatch.com/2008/09/great_scott_infocoms_alltime_s.php |archive-date=24 September 2008 }}</ref> Based on sales and market-share data, ''Video'' magazine listed the game fourth on its list of best selling video games in February 1985,<ref>{{cite journal |last1= Ditlea |first1= Steve |last2= Onosco |first2= Tim |last3= Kunkel |first3= Bill |author-link3= Bill Kunkel (journalist)|date= February 1985 |title= Random Access: Best Sellers/Recreation |journal= [[Video (magazine)|Video]]|publisher= Reese Communications|volume= 8|issue= 11|page= 35|issn= 0147-8907}}</ref> and third on the best seller list in March 1985,<ref>{{cite journal |last1= Onosco |first1= Tim |last2= Kohl |first2= Louise |last3= Kunkel |first3= Bill |author-link3= Bill Kunkel (journalist)|last4= Garr|first4= Doug |author-link4= Doug Garr|date= March 1985 |title= Random Access: Best Sellers/Recreation |journal= [[Video (magazine)|Video]]|publisher= Reese Communications|volume= 8|issue= 12|page= 43|issn= 0147-8907}}</ref> with ''II Computing'' listing it sixth on the magazine's list of top Apple II games as of October–November 1985.<ref name="ciraolo198510_11">{{cite news|url=https://archive.org/stream/II_Computing_Vol_1_No_1_Oct_Nov_85_Premiere#page/n51/mode/2up |title=Top Software / A List of Favorites |work=II Computing |date=Oct–Nov 1985 |access-date=28 January 2015 |author=Ciraolo, Michael |pages=51 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160313041801/https://archive.org/stream/II_Computing_Vol_1_No_1_Oct_Nov_85_Premiere |archive-date=13 March 2016 }}</ref> Its sales had surpassed 250,000 copies by November 1989.<ref name=gpsales>{{cite journal| author=Staff |title=Chart-Busters; SPA Platinum |date=November 1989 |issue=5| journal=[[Game Players]] | page=112}}</ref> ''Hitchhiker'' ultimately sold 400,000 copies,<ref name=simpson>{{cite book |title=Hitchhiker: A Biography of Douglas Adams |first=M. J. |last=Simpson |author-link=M. J. Simpson |publisher=Justin, Charles & Co. |location=[[Boston]] |year=2003 |pages=[https://archive.org/details/hitchhikerbiogra00simp/page/224 224–226] |isbn=1932112359 |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/hitchhikerbiogra00simp/page/224 }}</ref> and was one of the best-selling titles of its time.<ref name="polygon 30th">{{cite web|url=http://www.polygon.com/2014/3/10/5490738/bbc-launches-update-of-the-hitchhikers-guide-to-the-galaxy-text |title=BBC launches update of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy text adventure |first=Alexa Ray |last=Correira |date=10 March 2014 |access-date=10 March 2014 |website=[[Polygon (website)|Polygon]] |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140310183833/http://www.polygon.com/2014/3/10/5490738/bbc-launches-update-of-the-hitchhikers-guide-to-the-galaxy-text |archive-date=10 March 2014 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/cqmWf7n7tcy9Hb76H8BYTv/about-the-game |title=About the game |publisher=[[BBC]] |date=March 2014 |access-date=10 March 2014 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140313104410/http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/cqmWf7n7tcy9Hb76H8BYTv/about-the-game |archive-date=13 March 2014 }}</ref>

''[[Video (magazine)|Video]]'' in March 1985 praised the game's fidelity to its source material, stating that "it survives the transition as wacky and spaced-out as ever". Though acknowledging that "there may be a few minor problems with ''The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy''", the reviewer suggested that "the game is so engrossing, funny, and often so infuriatingly difficult that you'll hardly notice them".<ref>{{cite journal |last= Kohl |first= Louise |date= March 1985 |title= Random Access: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy |journal= [[Video (magazine)|Video]]|publisher= Reese Communications|volume= 8|issue= 12|pages= 42–43|issn= 0147-8907}}</ref> In May 1985 ''[[Antic (magazine)|Antic]]'' called it an "extraordinary game" and "a step forward from Infocom's safe, established approach to game design" with "distinct and tangible" writing, "really the first stylistic departure since the ''Zork'' trilogy". The magazine stated that ''Hitchhiker'' was "not your run-of-the-mill text adventure" but promised that "the puzzles are tough, but follow a certain capricious, twisted internal logic".<ref name="antic198505">{{cite news|url=https://archive.org/stream/1985-05-anticmagazine/Antic_Vol_4-01_1985-05_New_Super_Ataris#page/n17/mode/2up |title=The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy |work=Antic |date=May 1985 |access-date=7 January 2015 |author1=Powell, Jack |author2=Ciraolo, Michael |pages=19 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160315215614/https://archive.org/stream/1985-05-anticmagazine/Antic_Vol_4-01_1985-05_New_Super_Ataris |archive-date=15 March 2016 }}</ref> ''[[Compute!]]'' in June 1985 stated that the game "may well be Infocom's best effort to date", citing an effective adaptation of Adams's "comic absurdity", sense of humor, and "fascinating" story. The magazine "recommended [it] for all adventure gamers",<ref name="randall198506">{{cite news|url=http://www.atarimagazines.com/compute/issue61/313_1_REVIEWS_The_Hitchhikers_Guide_To_The_Galaxy.php |title=The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy |work=Compute! |date=June 1985 |access-date=8 October 2016 |author=Randall, Neil |pages=58 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160806183122/http://atarimagazines.com/compute/issue61/313_1_REVIEWS_The_Hitchhikers_Guide_To_The_Galaxy.php |archive-date=6 August 2016 }}</ref> and listed the game in May 1988 as one of "Our Favorite Games", stating that its humor distinguished ''Hitchhiker'' from other adventure games; "[Adams'] keen and literate wit make this game a joy".<ref name="compute198805">{{cite news|url=https://archive.org/stream/1988-05-compute-magazine/Compute_Issue_096_1988_May#page/n13/mode/2up |title=Our Favorite Games |work=Compute! |date=May 1988 |access-date=10 November 2013 |pages=12 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140429052944/https://archive.org/stream/1988-05-compute-magazine/Compute_Issue_096_1988_May |archive-date=29 April 2014 }}</ref> ''Compute!'' gave it the 1989 Compute! Choice Award for Role Playing/Adventure Game.<ref name="compute198901">{{cite news|url=https://archive.org/stream/1989-01-compute-magazine/Compute_Issue_104_1989_Jan#page/n25/mode/2up |title=The 1989 Compute! Choice Awards |work=Compute! |date=January 1989 |access-date=10 November 2013 |pages=24 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140316200847/https://archive.org/stream/1989-01-compute-magazine/Compute_Issue_104_1989_Jan |archive-date=16 March 2014 }}</ref>

In 1996, ''[[Computer Gaming World]]'' listed ''The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy'' at #42 among their top 150 best games of all-time, writing that "Douglas Adams' humor comes alive in this text adventure".<ref name=cgw150>{{cite magazine | author=Staff | url=http://www.cgwmuseum.org/galleries/issues/cgw_148.pdf | title=150 Best (and 50 Worst) Games of All Time | magazine=Computer Gaming World | date=November 1996 | issue=148 | pages=63–65, 68, 72, 74, 76, 78, 80, 84, 88, 90, 94, 98 | access-date=11 July 2017}}</ref>

==Legacy==
''The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy'' was one of five top-selling Infocom games to be produced in Solid Gold versions, with a built-in hint system not included in the originals. The game was re-released by [[Activision]] in several collection packages before rights reverted to Adams, enabling [[The Digital Village]] to re-release it as a web-based [[Java applet]]. Originally published as a fund-raising tool on the 1997 ''[[Comic Relief]]'' website, it took up permanent residence on Adams' own website the following year.

The original text-only version appeared in the [[Game On (exhibition)|Game On]] video games exhibition, which has toured museums worldwide since 2002, representing the text-based genre of video games.

On 21 September 2004 the [[BBC]] launched the 20th Anniversary Edition to coincide with the initial radio broadcast of the ''[[The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy#The Tertiary Phase|Tertiary Phase]]''. Sporting a [[Adobe Flash|Flash]] user interface, and illustrated by [[Rod Lord]] (who also produced the guide animations for the Hitchhiker's TV series), it won the [[BAFTA#Interactive|Interactive BAFTA Award]] for Best Online Entertainment.<ref>[http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4312683.stm "BBC leads interactive Bafta wins"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090430195236/http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4312683.stm |date=30 April 2009 }} from [[BBC News]] on 2 March 2005</ref>

In 2014, a [https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/1g84m0sXpnNCv84GpN2PLZG/the-game-30th-anniversary-edition 30th Anniversary Edition] was made available at the BBC.<ref>{{Cite web |title='Hitchhiker's Guide' text adventure gets 30th-anniversary update |url=https://www.cnet.com/tech/gaming/hitchhikers-guide-text-adventure-gets-30th-anniversary-update/ |access-date=2024-11-25 |website=CNET |language=en}}</ref>

===Sequel===
A proposed sequel, ''Milliways: The Restaurant at the End of the Universe'', which was to continue from the ending of the original, had problems from the start of development in 1985, until it was cancelled in 1989. This was due primarily down to the facts that there was "no solid game design, nobody to program it, and the backdrop of Infocom's larger economic problems".<ref>[http://waxy.org/2008/04/milliways_infocoms_unreleased_sequel_to_hitchhikers_guide_to_the_galax/ Waxy.org blog about the cancelled game] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160126202150/http://waxy.org/2008/04/milliways_infocoms_unreleased_sequel_to_hitchhikers_guide_to_the_galax/ |date=26 January 2016 }} by [[Andy Baio]]</ref> The beginning stages of the game were leaked in April 2008; however, the majority of it had yet to be written by the time it was cancelled.<ref>[http://waxy.org/random/software/milliways/milliways_release15.html ''Milliways'', ''Hitchhiker'' sequel] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080421094842/http://waxy.org/random/software/milliways/milliways_release15.html |date=21 April 2008 }}, Java applet from waxy.org</ref><ref>{{cite web | url = https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/milliways-the-lost-infocom-game | title = Milliways: The Lost Infocom Game | first =John | last = Walker | date=  18 April 2008 | accessdate = 9 March 2021 | work = [[Rock Paper Shotgun]] }}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine | url = https://www.wired.com/2008/04/infocom-drive-t/ | title = 'Infocom Drive' Turns Up Long-Lost "Hitchhiker" Sequel | first=  Chris | last= Kohler | date = 18 April 2008 | accessdate = 9 March 2021 | magazine = [[Wired (magazine)|Wired]] }}</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
*[http://www.douglasadams.com/creations/infocomjava.html Java version] on Douglas Adams website
*[http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/hitchhikers/game.shtml 20th Anniversary Edition] by BBC
*[http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/1g84m0sXpnNCv84GpN2PLZG/the-hitchhiker-s-guide-to-the-galaxy-game-30th-anniversary-edition 30th Anniversary Edition] by BBC
*[https://archive.org/details/InfocomCabinetHitchhikersGuide Infocom Cabinet: ''Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy''] at [[The Internet Archive]]
*{{IFDB | id=ouv80gvsl32xlion | title=The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy}}

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