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** [[PlayingWithATrope Played with]]. You have to work your way up to First Class Passenger in order to solve the mystery, and your surroundings become increasingly luxurious as you advance through the game.
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Not to be confused with two [[{{Futurama}} other starships]] [[Series/DoctorWho named Titanic.]]
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Not to be confused with two [[{{Futurama}} [[{{WesternAnimation/Futurama}} other starships]] [[Series/DoctorWho named Titanic.]]
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There is still a functional website that can be found [[http://www.starshiptitanic.com/ here]]. There is also a novelization of the game by [[Creator/MontyPython Pythonite]] TerryJones, who claims to only having agreed to Adams' proposal to write said book if he could write it in the nude. Which he supposedly did.
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There is still a functional website that can be found [[http://www.starshiptitanic.com/ here]]. There is also a novelization of the game by [[Creator/MontyPython Pythonite]] TerryJones, Creator/TerryJones, who claims to only having agreed to Adams' proposal to write said book if he could write it in the nude. Which he supposedly did.
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* CreatorCameo: Turn on your television at the beginning, and DouglasAdams himself will appear on the screen and tell you to get on with the game. He also voices the Succ-U-Bus, the ship's artificially intelligent pneumatic-tube system. [[spoiler: And plays Leovinus, the Titanic's designer, in a recording near the end of the game.]]
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* CreatorCameo: Turn on your television at the beginning, and DouglasAdams Creator/DouglasAdams himself will appear on the screen and tell you to get on with the game. He also voices the Succ-U-Bus, the ship's artificially intelligent pneumatic-tube system. [[spoiler: And plays Leovinus, the Titanic's designer, in a recording near the end of the game.]]
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** [[spoiler: Brobostigon]] justifies this in one of his emails: Each body part has a security chip called the "Metamor" that causes the item to change shape when removed from Titania's core.
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** [[spoiler: Brobostigon]] justifies handwaves this in one of his emails: Each body part has a security chip called the "Metamor" that causes the item to change shape when removed from Titania's core.
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* LawOfConservationOfDetail: Played with throughout the game. Whenever an item can be taken that turns out to be one of Titania's body parts, a new one instantly grows back.
** [[spoiler: Brobostigon]] justifies this in one of his emails: Each body part has a security chip called the "Metamor" that causes the item to change shape when removed from Titania's core.
** [[spoiler: Brobostigon]] justifies this in one of his emails: Each body part has a security chip called the "Metamor" that causes the item to change shape when removed from Titania's core.
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* AllUpToYou: True, you occasionally persuade the bots to help, but it's an uphill struggle.
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* AllUpToYou: True, you occasionally persuade the bots to help, but it's an uphill struggle. Fentible tries to justify this in the intro, saying that because Titania was dismantled, the side effect made all of the robots unable to figure out the problems on board the ship.
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* SimilarlyNamedWorks: While being interrogated by Bolfass, The Journalist tells him that he can only give him his name, rank and number. Bolfass then tells him that "this isn't ''Film/TheGreatEscape''". A footnote regarding this statement tells that he refers to similarly named and plotted Yassaccan film. Which also stars SteveMcQueen.
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* SimilarlyNamedWorks: Used In-universe. While being interrogated by Bolfass, The Journalist tells him that he can only give him his name, rank and number. Bolfass then tells him that "this isn't ''Film/TheGreatEscape''". A footnote regarding this statement tells that he refers to similarly named and plotted Yassaccan film. Which also stars SteveMcQueen.Creator/SteveMcQueen.
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* {{AFGNCAAP}}: We only have the Robots assurance they're even human.
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** In the novel, [[spoiler: Leovinus]] made the Succ-U-Bus system that way for safety reasons, although because corners were cut, they're not as smart as they were supposed to be.
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* AlternateContinuity: Rather obvious for the story itself, but one of the glaring points different from the game is how Scraliontis died: Where here he [[spoiler: falls down the Central Well]], in the game he [[spoiler: died in a bowl of food in the 1st class restaraunt during the fight with Leovinus]].
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* StopPokingMe: Repeatedly clicking on the bomb after arming it will cause it to become increasingly annoyed, eventually screaming at the player that '''"[[PunctuatedForEmphasis NO! MEANS! NO!]]"''' before breaking down sobbing. Also, prodding the Maitre d'Bot's "Achilles' buttock" results in this.
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* StopPokingMe: Repeatedly clicking on the bomb after arming it will cause it to become increasingly annoyed, eventually screaming at the player that '''"[[PunctuatedForEmphasis NO! MEANS! NO!]]"''' before breaking down sobbing. You can annoy it even further by hitting the glass-shielded button with a hammer you pick up later. Also, prodding the Maitre d'Bot's "Achilles' buttock" results in this.
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* InsuranceFraud: Starship's investors Scraliontis and Brobostignon arranged the ship's disappearance and upcoming detonation to collect its insurance money, as its massive scale proved to be a financial failure.
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* InsuranceFraud: Starship's investors Scraliontis and Brobostignon arranged the ship's disappearance and upcoming detonation to collect its insurance money, as its massive scale proved to be a financial failure. This is also hinted at in the game's emails.
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* TheComputerIsYourFriend: Averted - the computer ''would'' be your friend... unfortunately, she's come down with a bad case of lobotomy and the ship has rapidly gone out of control in her absence.
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** and one very living (and vocal) parrot
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* SomebodySetUpUsTheBomb: There is a bomb on board, in Titania's chambers. The button labeled "[[ShmuckBait Press to disarm bomb]]" actually ''arms'' the thing. [[spoiler:If you don't disable it before beating the game, the ship blows up in the ending.The password is "Nobody likes a smart-ass"]]
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* SomebodySetUpUsTheBomb: There is a bomb on board, in Titania's chambers. The button labeled "[[ShmuckBait Press to disarm bomb]]" actually ''arms'' the thing. [[spoiler:If you don't disable it before beating the game, the ship blows up in the ending.The password is "Nobody likes a smart-ass"]]]]
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* SurferDude: The personality of Krage the bellbot
* TemptingFate: ''Starship [[MeaningfulName Titanic]], The ship that cannot possibly go wrong''
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* SurferDude: The personality of Krage the bellbot
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* TemptingFate: ''Starship [[MeaningfulName Titanic]], The ship that cannot possibly gowrong''wrong.''
* TemptingFate: ''Starship [[MeaningfulName Titanic]], The ship that cannot possibly go
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* WhatDoesThisButtonDo: [[spoiler:It arms the bomb]]
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* WhatDoesThisButtonDo: [[spoiler:It arms the bomb]]bomb.]]
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* TemptingFate: ''Starship[[MeaningfulName Titanic]], The ship that cannot possibly go wrong''
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* TemptingFate: ''Starship[[MeaningfulName ''Starship [[MeaningfulName Titanic]], The ship that cannot possibly go wrong''
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* RecycledInSpace: Starship Titanic: [[CaptainObvious Titanic]] [-IN SPACE-]!
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* RecycledInSpace: Starship Titanic: ''Starship Titanic'': [[CaptainObvious Titanic]] [-IN SPACE-]!
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* RecycledInSpace: Starship Titanic: [[CaptainObvious Titanic in SPACE!]]Titanic]] [-IN SPACE-]!
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* ArcWords: "Nobody likes a clever-dick."
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* ArcWords: "Nobody likes a clever-dick.smart-ass."
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The brain child of Douglas Adams (''TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy''), ''Starship Titanic'' is a [[PointAndClickGame point and click]] adventure game set aboard an intergalactic cruise ship. The game opens with the ship crashing into your house, and before you know it, it turns out someone has lobotomised the main computer, the ship is adrift in space and it's up to you to fix things.
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The brain child of Douglas Adams (''TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy''), (''Franchise/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy''), ''Starship Titanic'' is a [[PointAndClickGame point and click]] adventure game set aboard an intergalactic cruise ship. The game opens with the ship crashing into your house, and before you know it, it turns out someone has lobotomised the main computer, the ship is adrift in space and it's up to you to fix things.
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* GargleBlaster: The [=BarBot=] asks for your help in making a fairly nasty one. Interestingly, if you ask him for an ''actual'' [[HitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy Gargle Blaster]], he replies [[TheDevTeamThinksOfEverything "Nobody likes a smart-ass".]]
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* GargleBlaster: The [=BarBot=] asks for your help in making a fairly nasty one. Interestingly, if you ask him for an ''actual'' [[HitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy [[Franchise/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy Gargle Blaster]], he replies [[TheDevTeamThinksOfEverything "Nobody likes a smart-ass".]]
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* CoolStarship: Its a hotel In Space.
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* CoolStarship: Its It's a hotel In Space.
** [[spoiler: Unfortunately, the perch isn't quite long ''enough'' to get the lemon. You ''can'', however, use it to get the hammer you'll need to break the glass and get the long stick.]]
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* RobotGirl / SpaceshipGirl: Well, woman, who her creator is in love with; also the main computer.
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* RobotGirl / SpaceshipGirl: Well, woman, who whom her creator is in love with; also the main computer.computer.
* RubeGoldbergMachine: Though there aren't any actual machines on board, the puzzles often follow the logic of Rube Goldberg's contraptions.
* RubeGoldbergMachine: Though there aren't any actual machines on board, the puzzles often follow the logic of Rube Goldberg's contraptions.
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* SidenoteFullStory: The whole story began as a [[FootnoteFever footnote]] in ''TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy''.
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* SidenoteFullStory: The whole story began as a [[FootnoteFever footnote]] in ''TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy''.''Life, the Universe, and Everything'', the third book in the ''Hitchhiker's'' series.
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* StopPokingMe: Repeatedly clicking on the bomb after arming it will cause it to become increasingly annoyed, eventually screaming at the player that '''"[[PunctuatedForEmphasis NO! MEANS! NO!]]"''' before breaking down sobbing.
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* StopPokingMe: Repeatedly clicking on the bomb after arming it will cause it to become increasingly annoyed, eventually screaming at the player that '''"[[PunctuatedForEmphasis NO! MEANS! NO!]]"''' before breaking down sobbing. Also, prodding the Maitre d'Bot's "Achilles' buttock" results in this.
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* VideoGameCrueltyPotential: One of the ingredients for the Titanic Titillator is Puree of Starling. [[spoiler: You get it by sucking a flock of starlings into a giant ventilation fan.]]
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* BareYourMidriff: Nettie wears a Gap shirt which exposes her midriff.
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* SimilarlyNamedWorks: While being interrogated by Bolfass, The Journalist tells him that he can only give him his name, rank and number. Bolfass then tell him that "this isn't ''Film/TheGreatEscape''." A footnote regarding this statement tells that he refers to similarly named and plotted Yassaccan film. Which also stars SteveMcQueen.
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* SimilarlyNamedWorks: While being interrogated by Bolfass, The Journalist tells him that he can only give him his name, rank and number. Bolfass then tell tells him that "this isn't ''Film/TheGreatEscape''." ''Film/TheGreatEscape''". A footnote regarding this statement tells that he refers to similarly named and plotted Yassaccan film. Which also stars SteveMcQueen.
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* HeroOfAnotherStory: The Yassaccan who looks over the captured protagonists is revealed to be a leader of Yassaccan smuggling ring, who joined the others to board the starship in hopes of securing loot afterwards. As soon as this is revealed, the book note that this is "an another story" and he isn't mentioned again.
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* HeroOfAnotherStory: The Yassaccan who looks over the captured protagonists is revealed to be a leader of Yassaccan smuggling ring, who joined the others to board the starship in hopes of securing loot afterwards. As soon as this is revealed, the book note notes that this is "an another story" and he isn't mentioned again.
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* ReverseMole: In the end, [[spoiler:the parrot is revealed to be an undercover agent working for the Yansaccans]].
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* HeroOfAnotherStory: The Yassaccan who looks over the captured protagonists is revealed to be a leader of Yassaccan smuggling ring, who joined the others to board the starship in hopes of securing loot afterwards. As soon as this is revealed, the book note that this is "an another story" and he isn't mentioned again.
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* PlanetOfHats: Yansacca, which hat is building and repairing things. When a group of them attack the starship, they fire on it, and fix it immediately afterwards.
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* PlanetOfHats: Yansacca, Yassacca, which hat is building and repairing things. When a group of them attack the starship, they fire on it, and fix it immediately afterwards.
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* SimilarlyNamedWorks: While being interrogated by Bolfass, The Journalist tells him that he can only give him his name, rank and number. Bolfass then tell him that "this isn't ''Film/TheGreatEscape''." A footnote regarding this statement tells that he refers to similarly named and plotted Yansaccan Yassaccan film. Which also stars SteveMcQueen.
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* DisneyVillainDeath: [[spoiler:Scraliontis]] falls to his death when he makes the mistake on leaning on a railing, as they were poorly made due to cutting corners in the starship's development to "finish" it.
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* DisneyVillainDeath: [[spoiler:Scraliontis]] falls to his death when he makes the mistake on leaning on a railing, railing when attacked by the parrot, as they were poorly made due to cutting corners in the starship's development to "finish" it.
* MistakenForMurderer: When Lucy meets The Journalist for the first time, she finds him covered (in his own) blood and investigating [[spoiler:Scraliontis's]] corpse. She comes to conclusion that he is murderer. The fact that he ties her down after she tries to run away from him doesn't help matters.
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* SmarterThanYouLook: Early in the book, Nettie is held as a blonde bimbo. Then it turns out she is really smart, [[spoiler:and gets even smarter when she is sucked into the black hole in the starship's engine room]].
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* DisneyVillainDeath: [[spoiler:Scraliontis]] falls to his death when he makes the mistake on leaning on a railing, as they were poorly made due to cutting corners in the starship's development to "finish" it.
* HeelRealization: As he is unable to communicate with Earthlings, Levonius can only pass time in his cell in Oxfordshire police station by pondering his life, and comes to realization about how much of a bad person he has become.
* HeelRealization: As he is unable to communicate with Earthlings, Levonius can only pass time in his cell in Oxfordshire police station by pondering his life, and comes to realization about how much of a bad person he has become.
* InsuranceFraud: Starship's investors Scraliontis and Brobostignon arranged the ship's disappearance and upcoming detonation to collect its insurance money, as its massive scale proved to be a financial failure.
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* SmarterThanYouLook: Early in the book, Nettie is held as a blonde bimbo. Then it turns out she is really smart, [[spoiler:and gets even smarter when she is sucked into the black hole in the starship's engine room]].
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* HisNameReallyIsBarkeep: By an ancient law, Blerontinian journalists are deemed to only go by as "The Journalists", in order to make sure that a "cult of personality" doesn't build around them.
* InMyLanguageThatSoundsLike: When Lucy tells her name to The Journalist, he tells her that in his language her name is really funny, but refuses to tell her what it means.
* PlanetOfHats: Yansacca, which hat is building and repairing things. When a group of them attack the starship, they fire on it, and fix it immediately afterwards.
* PreClimaxClimax: Thinking that the ship is about to blow up, Lucy jumps The Journalist's bones.
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[[caption-width-right:256:Fancy a free cruise?]]
->"''Bing-Bong! We regret to announce that the ship is hurtling out of control through hyperspace. All passengers with insurance queries, please contact your ticket vendors.''"
-->-- '''The ever-helpful announcer'''
->"''Well, the ship has lost its mind, and so has most of its crew, including me...''"
-->-- '''Edmund Lucy Fentible, [=DoorBot=]'''
The brain child of Douglas Adams (''TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy''), ''Starship Titanic'' is a [[PointAndClickGame point and click]] adventure game set aboard an intergalactic cruise ship. The game opens with the ship crashing into your house, and before you know it, it turns out someone has lobotomised the main computer, the ship is adrift in space and it's up to you to fix things.
There is still a functional website that can be found [[http://www.starshiptitanic.com/ here]]. There is also a novelization of the game by [[Creator/MontyPython Pythonite]] TerryJones, who claims to only having agreed to Adams' proposal to write said book if he could write it in the nude. Which he supposedly did.
Not to be confused with two [[{{Futurama}} other starships]] [[Series/DoctorWho named Titanic.]]
See [[http://forums.techguy.org/games/877759-running-starship-titanic-windows-7-a.html this post]] if you're trying to run the game on windows 7. (Though be aware that the patches for versions 1.00.42a and 1.00.42b will no longer be available on Starship Titanic's main site. They can still be accessed through their archived versions [[http://web.archive.org/web/20070102072635/http://www.starshiptitanic.com/game/extras/st142atoc.zip here for a]] and [[http://web.archive.org/web/20061230212710/http://www.starshiptitanic.com/game/extras/st142btoc.zip here for b]])
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!!This game provides examples of:
* [[AchillesHeel Achilles]] [[spoiler: [[AchillesHeel Buttock]]]]: The Maître d'Bot has one, and it must be prodded repeatedly before he will let you look at [[spoiler: Scraliontis' corpse.]]
* AllUpToYou: True, you occasionally persuade the bots to help, but it's an uphill struggle.
* ArcWords: "Nobody likes a smart-ass."
* {{AFGNCAAP}}: We only have the Robots assurance they're even human.
* BloodSport: Nib. The [=BarBot=] is an especially big fan - he'll go on about it at length if you ask him, and the [[{{Feelies}} In-Flight Magazine]] also has an article on the subject written by him.
* BrainUploading: People who have donated their personality, like giving blood in America you get paid for it, with better personalities getting more money. The robots onboard all have these, thankfully they can be adjusted.
* TheCallKnowsWhereYouLive: After the titular ship reduces your house to rubble, what choice do you have but to to answer Fentible's CallToAdventure?
** ButThouMust: In fact, if you type "no" (or indeed anything besides "yes"), the only acknowledgment your refusal gets is "An odd way to spell it, but I suppose it will have to do."
* ChekhovsGun: Both [[spoiler: the picture of the night sky above your house]], and [[spoiler: [[{{Feelies}} the 3D glasses that came packaged with the game itself.]]]] These two items are completely useless [[spoiler: until you gain access to the Titanic's navigation systems at the very end of the game.]]
* TheComputerIsYourFriend: Averted - the computer ''would'' be your friend... unfortunately, she's come down with a bad case of lobotomy and the ship has rapidly gone out of control in her absence.
* ControlRoomPuzzle: With a pretty star field.
* CoolStarship: Its a hotel In Space.
* CreatorCameo: Turn on your television at the beginning, and DouglasAdams himself will appear on the screen and tell you to get on with the game. He also voices the Succ-U-Bus, the ship's artificially intelligent pneumatic-tube system. [[spoiler: And plays Leovinus, the Titanic's designer, in a recording near the end of the game.]]
* DilatingDoor: The ship has two, the one visible in [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6mdVVcLIgKw the intro]] and the door to [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=oQDpxn31aho#t=1058s the arboretum]], which 'grows' open and closed.
* GameBreakingBug: The game spanned multiple [=CD-ROMs=]. Some batches went out with the final disc in the set missing. Okay, not technically a bug, par se, but certainly game-breaking.
** This is due to there being an ACTUAL game breaking bug on the final disk in the first printing that was missing a file that had the game's interface with their [[FunWithAcronyms Personal Electronic Thing]] which is necessary to do anything with your inventory or even save/quit the game!
* GargleBlaster: The [=BarBot=] asks for your help in making a fairly nasty one. Interestingly, if you ask him for an ''actual'' [[HitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy Gargle Blaster]], he replies [[TheDevTeamThinksOfEverything "Nobody likes a smart-ass".]]
** This is, in fact, a hint.
* GhostShip: You are the only living thing on-board, however there are two dead things...
** and one very living (and vocal) parrot
** The flock of starlings are alive - at least, to start with...
* GuideDangIt: One review dubbed the game's difficulty "Impossible unless you're the author or telepathic".
* FasterThanLightTravel: Which allows a ship from the other side of the galaxy to crash into your house.
* FunWithAcronyms: '''P'''ersonal '''E'''lectronic '''T'''hing, a combination of keyring, BagOfHolding, remote control, staff pager and conversation log.
** Also '''S'''pontaneous '''M'''assive '''E'''xistance '''F'''ailure. The ship sailed from its space dock with great fanfare and promptly vanished.
* TheKeyIsBehindTheLock: In order to obtain a hammer, you need to press a button with a long stick. However, in order to obtain a long stick behind glass, you must break the glass with a hammer. [[spoiler:Fortunately, there's a parrot perch that you can use in place of the long stick.]]
* MagicCountdown: Parodied. The bomb, once armed, would begin to audibly count down, get distracted and lose its place and have to start over. A lot.
* MoonLogicPuzzle: Of course you need to cover the chicken in mustard sauce before you send it...
* OldSoldier: The [=LiftBot=]. ShoutOut to real life - ex-servicemen lift operators used to be a common sight in the UK.
-->'''Nobby:''' Between ourselves I'd rather be trotting up the ha'aqa bin-j'Jabbli in my p'narma hat, heading for the rebel headquarters with a grenade under my q'jinjan.
* PollyWantsAMicrophone: There is a talking parrot on board, located in the unfinished ballroom. It belonged to one of the people building the ship.
* RidiculouslyHumanRobots: Mostly averted, many of the robots look like furniture or art work.
* RobotGirl / SpaceshipGirl: Well, woman, who her creator is in love with; also the main computer.
* SanitySlippage: The Barbot after a particularly powerful cocktail and the Doorbot at random times during conversation.
* SceneryPorn: The Art Deco inspired locations are mostly static, but ''wonderful'' to look at.
* SchizoTech: In a giant spaceship that can travel faster than light there is a pneumatic tube delivery system and phonograph cylinders for music.
* SidenoteFullStory: The whole story began as a [[FootnoteFever footnote]] in ''TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy''.
* SomebodySetUpUsTheBomb: There is a bomb on board, in Titania's chambers. The button labeled "[[ShmuckBait Press to disarm bomb]]" actually ''arms'' the thing. [[spoiler:If you don't disable it before beating the game, the ship blows up in the ending.The password is "Nobody likes a smart-ass"]]
* StarshipLuxurious: Of course, since it's a cruise ship in space.
* StopPokingMe: Repeatedly clicking on the bomb after arming it will cause it to become increasingly annoyed, eventually screaming at the player that '''"[[PunctuatedForEmphasis NO! MEANS! NO!]]"''' before breaking down sobbing.
* SurferDude: The personality of Krage the bellbot
* TemptingFate: ''Starship[[MeaningfulName Titanic]], The ship that cannot possibly go wrong''
* TookALevelInKindness: Marsinta, the [[DeadpanSnarker sarcastic]], [[{{Jerkass}} deliberately unhelpful]] [=DeskBot=] becomes extremely kind and gentle once you [[spoiler: recalibrate her off-kilter personality settings]].
* WhatDidYouExpectWhenYouNamedIt
* WhatDoesThisButtonDo: [[spoiler: arms the bomb]]
* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman
* VariableMix
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[[caption-width-right:256:Fancy a free cruise?]]
->"''Bing-Bong! We regret to announce that the ship is hurtling out of control through hyperspace. All passengers with insurance queries, please contact your ticket vendors.''"
-->-- '''The ever-helpful announcer'''
->"''Well, the ship has lost its mind, and so has most of its crew, including me...''"
-->-- '''Edmund Lucy Fentible, [=DoorBot=]'''
The brain child of Douglas Adams (''TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy''), ''Starship Titanic'' is a [[PointAndClickGame point and click]] adventure game set aboard an intergalactic cruise ship. The game opens with the ship crashing into your house, and before you know it, it turns out someone has lobotomised the main computer, the ship is adrift in space and it's up to you to fix things.
There is still a functional website that can be found [[http://www.starshiptitanic.com/ here]]. There is also a novelization of the game by [[Creator/MontyPython Pythonite]] TerryJones, who claims to only having agreed to Adams' proposal to write said book if he could write it in the nude. Which he supposedly did.
Not to be confused with two [[{{Futurama}} other starships]] [[Series/DoctorWho named Titanic.]]
See [[http://forums.techguy.org/games/877759-running-starship-titanic-windows-7-a.html this post]] if you're trying to run the game on windows 7. (Though be aware that the patches for versions 1.00.42a and 1.00.42b will no longer be available on Starship Titanic's main site. They can still be accessed through their archived versions [[http://web.archive.org/web/20070102072635/http://www.starshiptitanic.com/game/extras/st142atoc.zip here for a]] and [[http://web.archive.org/web/20061230212710/http://www.starshiptitanic.com/game/extras/st142btoc.zip here for b]])
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!!This game provides examples of:
* [[AchillesHeel Achilles]] [[spoiler: [[AchillesHeel Buttock]]]]: The Maître d'Bot has one, and it must be prodded repeatedly before he will let you look at [[spoiler: Scraliontis' corpse.]]
* AllUpToYou: True, you occasionally persuade the bots to help, but it's an uphill struggle.
* ArcWords: "Nobody likes a smart-ass."
* {{AFGNCAAP}}: We only have the Robots assurance they're even human.
* BloodSport: Nib. The [=BarBot=] is an especially big fan - he'll go on about it at length if you ask him, and the [[{{Feelies}} In-Flight Magazine]] also has an article on the subject written by him.
* BrainUploading: People who have donated their personality, like giving blood in America you get paid for it, with better personalities getting more money. The robots onboard all have these, thankfully they can be adjusted.
* TheCallKnowsWhereYouLive: After the titular ship reduces your house to rubble, what choice do you have but to to answer Fentible's CallToAdventure?
** ButThouMust: In fact, if you type "no" (or indeed anything besides "yes"), the only acknowledgment your refusal gets is "An odd way to spell it, but I suppose it will have to do."
* ChekhovsGun: Both [[spoiler: the picture of the night sky above your house]], and [[spoiler: [[{{Feelies}} the 3D glasses that came packaged with the game itself.]]]] These two items are completely useless [[spoiler: until you gain access to the Titanic's navigation systems at the very end of the game.]]
* TheComputerIsYourFriend: Averted - the computer ''would'' be your friend... unfortunately, she's come down with a bad case of lobotomy and the ship has rapidly gone out of control in her absence.
* ControlRoomPuzzle: With a pretty star field.
* CoolStarship: Its a hotel In Space.
* CreatorCameo: Turn on your television at the beginning, and DouglasAdams himself will appear on the screen and tell you to get on with the game. He also voices the Succ-U-Bus, the ship's artificially intelligent pneumatic-tube system. [[spoiler: And plays Leovinus, the Titanic's designer, in a recording near the end of the game.]]
* DilatingDoor: The ship has two, the one visible in [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6mdVVcLIgKw the intro]] and the door to [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=oQDpxn31aho#t=1058s the arboretum]], which 'grows' open and closed.
* GameBreakingBug: The game spanned multiple [=CD-ROMs=]. Some batches went out with the final disc in the set missing. Okay, not technically a bug, par se, but certainly game-breaking.
** This is due to there being an ACTUAL game breaking bug on the final disk in the first printing that was missing a file that had the game's interface with their [[FunWithAcronyms Personal Electronic Thing]] which is necessary to do anything with your inventory or even save/quit the game!
* GargleBlaster: The [=BarBot=] asks for your help in making a fairly nasty one. Interestingly, if you ask him for an ''actual'' [[HitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy Gargle Blaster]], he replies [[TheDevTeamThinksOfEverything "Nobody likes a smart-ass".]]
** This is, in fact, a hint.
* GhostShip: You are the only living thing on-board, however there are two dead things...
** and one very living (and vocal) parrot
** The flock of starlings are alive - at least, to start with...
* GuideDangIt: One review dubbed the game's difficulty "Impossible unless you're the author or telepathic".
* FasterThanLightTravel: Which allows a ship from the other side of the galaxy to crash into your house.
* FunWithAcronyms: '''P'''ersonal '''E'''lectronic '''T'''hing, a combination of keyring, BagOfHolding, remote control, staff pager and conversation log.
** Also '''S'''pontaneous '''M'''assive '''E'''xistance '''F'''ailure. The ship sailed from its space dock with great fanfare and promptly vanished.
* TheKeyIsBehindTheLock: In order to obtain a hammer, you need to press a button with a long stick. However, in order to obtain a long stick behind glass, you must break the glass with a hammer. [[spoiler:Fortunately, there's a parrot perch that you can use in place of the long stick.]]
* MagicCountdown: Parodied. The bomb, once armed, would begin to audibly count down, get distracted and lose its place and have to start over. A lot.
* MoonLogicPuzzle: Of course you need to cover the chicken in mustard sauce before you send it...
* OldSoldier: The [=LiftBot=]. ShoutOut to real life - ex-servicemen lift operators used to be a common sight in the UK.
-->'''Nobby:''' Between ourselves I'd rather be trotting up the ha'aqa bin-j'Jabbli in my p'narma hat, heading for the rebel headquarters with a grenade under my q'jinjan.
* PollyWantsAMicrophone: There is a talking parrot on board, located in the unfinished ballroom. It belonged to one of the people building the ship.
* RidiculouslyHumanRobots: Mostly averted, many of the robots look like furniture or art work.
* RobotGirl / SpaceshipGirl: Well, woman, who her creator is in love with; also the main computer.
* SanitySlippage: The Barbot after a particularly powerful cocktail and the Doorbot at random times during conversation.
* SceneryPorn: The Art Deco inspired locations are mostly static, but ''wonderful'' to look at.
* SchizoTech: In a giant spaceship that can travel faster than light there is a pneumatic tube delivery system and phonograph cylinders for music.
* SidenoteFullStory: The whole story began as a [[FootnoteFever footnote]] in ''TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy''.
* SomebodySetUpUsTheBomb: There is a bomb on board, in Titania's chambers. The button labeled "[[ShmuckBait Press to disarm bomb]]" actually ''arms'' the thing. [[spoiler:If you don't disable it before beating the game, the ship blows up in the ending.The password is "Nobody likes a smart-ass"]]
* StarshipLuxurious: Of course, since it's a cruise ship in space.
* StopPokingMe: Repeatedly clicking on the bomb after arming it will cause it to become increasingly annoyed, eventually screaming at the player that '''"[[PunctuatedForEmphasis NO! MEANS! NO!]]"''' before breaking down sobbing.
* SurferDude: The personality of Krage the bellbot
* TemptingFate: ''Starship[[MeaningfulName Titanic]], The ship that cannot possibly go wrong''
* TookALevelInKindness: Marsinta, the [[DeadpanSnarker sarcastic]], [[{{Jerkass}} deliberately unhelpful]] [=DeskBot=] becomes extremely kind and gentle once you [[spoiler: recalibrate her off-kilter personality settings]].
* WhatDidYouExpectWhenYouNamedIt
* WhatDoesThisButtonDo: [[spoiler: arms the bomb]]
* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman
* VariableMix
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