{"id":24730,"date":"2014-03-18T09:39:37","date_gmt":"2014-03-18T14:39:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=24730"},"modified":"2014-03-18T09:48:42","modified_gmt":"2014-03-18T14:48:42","slug":"the-hitchhikers-guide-goes-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2014\/03\/18\/the-hitchhikers-guide-goes-online\/","title":{"rendered":"The Hitchhiker&#8217;s Guide goes online"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>BBC Radio 4<\/em> has an online edition of the old <font color=\"red\"><strike>Microprose<\/strike><\/font> <font color=\"green\">Infocom<\/font> game <em>The Hitchhiker&#8217;s Guide to the Galaxy<\/em>:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/articles\/1g84m0sXpnNCv84GpN2PLZG\/the-hitchhiker-s-guide-to-the-galaxy-game-30th-anniversary-edition\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Hitchhikers-Guide-30th-anniversary-edition.png\" alt=\"Hitchhiker&#039;s Guide 30th anniversary edition\" width=\"853\" height=\"521\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-24731\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Hitchhikers-Guide-30th-anniversary-edition.png 853w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Hitchhikers-Guide-30th-anniversary-edition-150x91.png 150w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Hitchhikers-Guide-30th-anniversary-edition-480x293.png 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 853px) 100vw, 853px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I played this game on my very first PC (a Corona PC clone with a massive 256K memory and two floppy drives). It was <em>incredibly<\/em> frustrating. I seem to remember dying a lot. I think that was the designer&#8217;s intent.<\/p>\n<p><b>Update<\/b>: Don&#8217;t know why I said it was a Microprose product, when the UI clearly states it was Infocom &#8230; senility setting in early, I guess.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BBC Radio 4 has an online edition of the old Microprose Infocom game The Hitchhiker&#8217;s Guide to the Galaxy: I played this game on my very first PC (a Corona PC clone with a massive 256K memory and two floppy drives). It was incredibly frustrating. I seem to remember dying a lot. I think that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,7,57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gaming","category-history","category-humour"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-6qS","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24730"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24730\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24735,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24730\/revisions\/24735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}