Ed Wilde

As part of the promotion for their new radio series of The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy the clever people at the BBC have updated the classic text-based Hitchhikers Game by Douglas Adams (circa 1984) to be playable over the web. It also has images (by the original artist), which add a certain something to the gameplay.

This particular one was a little before my time when it first came out, although the text-based adventure takes me straight back to playing the infamous Leather Goddess of Phobos which I played for months and probably didn't get anywhere.

Also the new episodes are available to listen to here, although opening the window to listen to them crashed my firefox quite nicely.

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Seems a lot of people who rushed out yesterday to buy half-life2 (along with halo2, probably one of the most anticipated games of 2004) are not allowed to play the game yet.

Valve, the games producers put in a special anti-piracy protection which forces people to register online before they can play the game. Unfortunately they underestimated how many people would want to register on the first day...and subsequently all their servers crashed from over-population

oh dear, guess the only way around it is to use the emulator which has already been used to put the game into the newsgroups.

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