{"id":287,"date":"2005-04-21T14:04:00","date_gmt":"2005-04-21T22:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/?p=287"},"modified":"2007-12-30T16:09:34","modified_gmt":"2007-12-31T00:09:34","slug":"hitchhikers-guide-text-game-available-on-line","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/?p=287","title":{"rendered":"Hitchhiker's Guide text game available on-line"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Back in 1984, Infocom and Douglas Adams released a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Interactive_fiction\" title=\"Wikipedia 'Interactive Fiction' entry\">text adventure game<\/a> based on Adam's <em>Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy<\/em> books.  I remember playing this on my Commodore 64 in the late '80s.<\/p>\n<p>BBC Radio 4 has converted the game into Flash so that you can play it on-line.  Even better, they have <strong>two <\/strong>different illustrated versions of the game.  It's still a text game, but with illustrations of each location as you play the game.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/radio4\/hitchhikers\/game.shtml\">http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/radio4\/hitchhikers\/game.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n<p>To play the game, choose which illustrated version you want, then have fun.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back in 1984, Infocom and Douglas Adams released a text adventure game based on Adam's Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy books. I remember playing this on my Commodore 64 in the late '80s. BBC Radio 4 has converted the game into Flash so that you <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/?p=287\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fun"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}