History VideoGame / StarshipTitanic

* MultipleEndings: Depending on whether or not you [[spoiler:disarmed the bomb or not.]]

* NoOSHACompliance: Deliberately, [[spoiler:since the ship was planned to be scuttled from the beginning and corners were cut so it wouldn't be ''too'' expensive. Brobostigon gets HoistByHisOwnPetard because of this, and additionally in the novel Scraliontis suffers a similiarly KarmicDeath.]]

--> '''Marsinta:''' Don't get drunk in the bar, don't annoy the musicians, don't fiddle with the pellerator, don't touch the artwork, and if you go up to the promenade deck, don't scuff the woodwork. There you are, and it's better than you deserve. Lousy freeloaders.
** Naturally, you end up doing all of this anyway.

* ReverseMole: In the end, [[spoiler: the parrot is revealed to be an undercover agent working for the Yassaccans]].

* SurferDude: The personality of Krage the bellbot.

%%* VariableMix

** 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.

* BattleButler: The Maitre'd Bot is secretly trained to double as an assassin. Not that it helps much when broken into pieces.

* GratuitousFrench: The Maitre'd-bot does this almost every time he talks to you.

* RobotGirl[=/=]SpaceshipGirl: Well, woman, whom her creator is in love with; also the main computer.

** Plantetside, "Translation Blister" patches are used instead. At the start of the book, these are banned during the launch ceremony, so the Gat of Blerontin can't understand what a group of Yassacan protesters are saying.

** Krage hands out "Translatorspecs" so the humans can read the ship's signs also.

* BreakingTheFourthWall: Your first action aboard the Starship Titanic is to press a large button beneath a sign saying Press Button For Opening Credits Sequence. [[CaptainObvious It starts the opening credits sequence.]]

* RecycledInSpace: ''Starship Titanic'': [[CaptainObvious Titanic]] [-IN SPACE-]!

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]]) Also available at [[http://www.gog.com/game/starship_titanic gog.com]] if you don't like the hassle. In addition, in 2017 the game's engine was completely overhauled as part of the [[http://www.scummvm.org/ ScummVM]] project for modern computer compatibility.

* 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.]]
%%** The [[spoiler:Third Class chicken delivery system and the Maître d'Bot's arms.]]

* CopyAndPasteEnvironments: [[ParodiedTrope Parodied]]. The Second Class stateroom lobbies have the same elevators as the Super Galactic Traveler Class stateroom lobbies, only the [=SGT=] elevators serve three staterooms while the Second Class elevators only serve two. The Second Class elevators still have three buttons, though.

* FakeArmDisarm: Leovinus and Scraliontis used two of the Maître D-bot's limbs to fight each other, and eventually smashed the whole thing apart when landing on it. This didn't affect the robot much, though, as he can still wiggle his components even when separated. Played straighter in the game when you have to actually steal his arms, and get him to relax to let go of the things they're holding.

* GuideDangIt: One review dubbed the game's difficulty "Impossible unless you're the author or telepathic". In particular, one feature of the PET is very easily overlooked - the ability to manually enter room codes in the 'Designer Room Numbers' menu. [[spoiler:It's necessary to use this feature to find which one First Class stateroom out of a couple hundred is of interest to you.]]

* TheLawOfConservationOfDetail: 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]] 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.
** [[AvertedTrope Averted]] in some places. There are doors on the First Class decks that don't go anywhere, there are ''thousands'' of cabins on the ship, but only three are of interest to you in any one playthrough, [[RealityEnsues and nothing ever plays on]] [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking TV channel 1]].

* MadLibsDialogue: Played straight with Marsinta giving you your room number, which is generally randomized per play. You're presented with an extensive check-in conversation in which you carefully pick your room, what kind of breakfast and newspaper you get, what type of bed you've got, where the room is situated... and then you get slapped with a Super Galactic Traveller Class room, of which there are hundreds and they all look exactly the same. Averted with the Smart Bomb's countdown and Nobby's floor announcements, however.
** Most of the dialogue in the game runs on a system called "[=SpookiTalk=]" which functions a little like this, looking for particular phrasing and grammar from the player, checking the bot in question's cellpoint settings, and spitting out an appropriate response. There are ''hours'' of dialogue in the game, most of which will go unheard in a normal playthrough.
* 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. [[spoiler:Even if you arm it and walk away, it won't actually blow up until you complete the game.]]

* NoOSHACompliance: Deliberately, [[spoiler:since the ship was planned to be scuttled from the beginning and corners were cut so it wouldn't be ''too'' expensive. Brobostigon gets struck ''hard'' with HoistByHisOwnPetard because of this, and additionally in the novel Scraliontis suffers a similiarly KarmicDeath.]]

* PermanentlyMissableContent:
** [[AvertedTrope Averted]] where it comes to the item system. It is possible to lose items in the Succ-U-Bus system, but a system exists in-game to help you recover them. [[SarcasmMode Naturally]], said system [[GuideDangIt isn't hinted at anywhere]].
** However, if you don't replace the parrot's perch after obtaining the [[spoiler:central core]], the parrot will leave and you'll never see him again.
** Pulling the lever in the Creators' Chamber once you give it power disables the energy beams keeping the creators' busts in the air, destroying them for good.

-->'''Bomb:''' "Now this is going to be a fairly large explosion, so everybody should stand back...oh, about twenty-two miles."
** Subverted in that if you actually wait long enough for the entire countdown from 1000 to expire, [[spoiler: the bomb gets cold feet about exploding and restarts the countdown]]. Oddly enough, even though the bomb [[spoiler: will never blow up during gameplay, it ''will'' explode in the ending FMV if it happens to be armed. At least it got the parrot, too]].

* StarshipLuxurious: Of course, since it's a cruise ship in space. [[WordOfGod Developer quotes in the strategy guide]] say they were intentionally trying to make the interior look like a hotel rather than a spaceship.
** [[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.

* MadLibsDialogue: Played straight with Marsinta giving you your room number, which is generally randomized per play. You're presented with an extensive check-in conversation in which you carefully pick your room, what kind of breakfast and newspaper you get, what type of bed you've got, where the room is situated... and then you get slapped with a Super Galactic Traveller Class room, of which there are hundreds and they all look exactly the same. Averted with Nobby in the elevator, however.

The brain child of Douglas Adams (''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.

* PollyWantsAMicrophone: There is a talking parrot on board, located in the unfinished ballroom. It belonged to one of the people building the ship. He also apparently has an (invisible) microphone, as he can on occasion be heard cracking jokes whilst you're on the other side of the ship.

* 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.

* PressXToDie: You come across a button that says "Press to Disarm Bomb" -- which arms it.
-->Bomb: "Now this is going to be a fairly large explosion, so everybody should stand back...oh, about twenty-two miles."
** Subverted in that if you actually wait long enough for the entire countdown from 1000 to expire, [[spoiler:the bomb gets cold feet about actually exploding and restarts the countdown]]. Oddly enough, even though the bomb [[spoiler:will never blow up during gameplay, it ''will'' explode in the ending FMV if it happens to be armed. At least it got the parrot too.]]
* ReverseMole: In the end, [[spoiler:the parrot is revealed to be an undercover agent working for the Yassaccans]].

%%* ArcWords: "Nobody likes a smart-ass."

* {{Feelies}}: The game originally came packaged with a pair of 3D red/blue glasses and a physical copy of the ''Super-Galactic Traveler Magazine''. [[spoiler: [[GuideDangIt Naturally,]] the 3D glasses are necessary for a puzzle to return to your home at the end, so if you got the game digitally, [[UnwinnableByDesign you better have a guide handy.]]]]

* LowerClassLout: Passengers in Super Galactic Traveller Class are treated this way. They have to find their own way to their room without assistance from the staff, each floor has two lobbies each with access to eighteen 'staterooms', which the passenger then has to assemble themselves, for way of entertainment each lobby has a single relaxation room in which there is a single chair which looks at a portrait, and each passenger gets a single chicken from the 'restaurant', which is basically just a chicken and sauce dispenser.

** [[AvertedTrope Averted]] where it comes to the item system. It is possible to lose items in the Succ-U-Bus system, but a system exists in-game to help you recover them.

* {{Feelies}}: The game originally came packaged with a pair of 3D red/blue glasses and a physical copy of the ''Super-Galactic Traveler Magazine''.

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]]) Also available at [[http://www.gog.com/game/starship_titanic gog.com]] if you don't like the hassle.

* ReverseMole: In the end, [[spoiler:the parrot is revealed to be an undercover agent working for the Yansaccans]].

* OurAngelsAreDifferent: Titania has the appearance of a blue metal woman with wing-shaped masses of cables coming out of her back, and artistic statues in her likeness appear all over the ship as her eyes and ears.

* RobotGirl / SpaceshipGirl: Well, woman, whom her creator is in love with; also the main computer.

* 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 Creator/SteveMcQueen.

* ObsessiveCompulsiveBarkeeping: The BarBot, when idle.

* ObsessiveCompulsiveBarkeeping: The BarBot, most of the time.