History VideoGame / TheHitchhikersGuidetotheGalaxy

* LogicBomb: Until you are able to aquire a cup of tea, your inventory will always have the item "no tea". You can't drop it, you can't do anything with it. However, once you fix the drink dispenser on the Heart of Gold , you can acquire "tea", and "no tea" will be dropped there. In order to process in the game, you need to remove your common sense so that you can get both items at the same time. Having both 'tea' and 'no tea' in your inventory allows you to awe a certain computer, which identifies you as "a heavy-duty philosopher".

* PressStartToGameOver: If you fail to get out of your house after the first few moves, you die.

* UnexpectedlyRealisticGameplay: Giant parts of the game. You have a headache? Take an aspirin. (And hurry up. There's a TickingClock.)

* TemporalParadox: At one point you only know what items you'll need because you ''saw yourself being asked for them'' thanks to a paradox.

* LogicBomb: Until you are able to aquire a cup of tea, your inventory will always have the item "no tea". You can't drop it, you can't do anything with it. However, once you fix the drink dispenser on the Heart of Gold , you can acquire "tea", and "no tea" will be dropped there. In order to process in the game, you need to remove your common sense so that you can get both items at the same time as to convince a automatic door to open at the bewilderment of having both tea and no tea.
* LostForever

* TemporalParadox
* UnexpectedlyRealisticGameplay: Giant parts of the game. You have a headache? Take an aspirin.

* ClingyMacGuffin: The Thing That Your Aunt Gave You That You Don't Know What It Is. But it's a [[BagOfHolding good thing]] you couldn't lose it.

* ControllableHelplessness

## There are about a dozen tools hidden throughout the game, one of which is in your soon-to-be-demolished house at the beginning. Near the very end of the game, Marvin will need just one of these tools to save you. Unless you use the psychic plant, the game will deliberately pick one that you don't have. (And you can't just bring them all because it's too crowded, and the floor is a grill that lets any dropped tools slip away.)

* SoupCans: Oh, dear lord.

* EmptyRoomPsych: "You can't hear anything, see anything, smell anything, feel anything, or taste anything, and do not even know where you are or who you are or how you got there" seems to be the narrator's catchphrase. If you wait long enough, one of the senses will be elimated from the list, and using it will help you quite a bit (even if it seems useless at first.)

## There are about a dozen tools hidden throughout the game. Near the very end of the game, Marvin will need just one of these tools to save you. Unless you use the psychic plant, the game will deliberately pick one that you don't have. (And you can't just bring them all because it's too crowded, and the floor is a grill that lets any dropped tools slip away.)

* GayOption: The game recognizes commands to kiss and enjoy characters of either gender...[[spoiler:but it just tells you that this isn't ''that'' kind of game. Sorry, {{Yaoi Fangirl}}s.]]

* PaintingTheFourthWall

A 1984 [[InteractiveFiction text-based adventure game]] published by {{Infocom}} and yet another spinoff of that wholly remarkable franchise ''TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy''. The game was co-written by DouglasAdams and SteveMeretzky.

It's notorious for being maddeningly difficult and very funny, and stays close to the other versions of ''TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy''.

* {{Clingy MacGuffin}}: The Thing That Your Aunt Gave You That You Don't Know What It Is. But it's a [[BagOfHolding good thing]] you couldn't lose it.

## There are about a dozen tools hidden throughout the game. Near the very end of the game, Marvin will need just one of these tools to save you. Unless you use the psychic plant, the game will deliberately pick one that you don't have. (And if [[@/FordPrefect I]] remember correctly, you can't just bring them all because it's too crowded.)

## One thing you need to do at the start, but probably won't think of if somebody doesn't warn you, is giving a dog a sandwich. Yes, giving a dog a sandwich.
## There are about a dozen tools hidden throughout the game. Near the very end of the game, Marvin will need just one of these tools to save you. Unless you have every tool, the game will deliberately pick one that you don't have.

* EasterEgg: There's couple of the footnotes have nothing referring to them; you'll only read them if you're specifically going through all the footnotes.

Its notorious for being maddeningly difficult and very funny, and stays close to the other versions of ''TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy''.

* EasterEgg: There's nothing referring to a couple of the footnotes; you'll only read them if you're specifically going through all the footnotes.

* UnwinnableByDesign: The player can easily render the game unwinnable easily and without warning. For instance, there are two entirely separate ways in which it is possible to get all the way to the end of the game and then learn that the game is now unwinnable because of something you didn't do right at the start.

A 1984 [[InteractiveFiction text-based adventure game]] published by {{Infocom}} and yet another spinoff of that wholly remarkable franchise ''TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy''. The game was co-written by DouglasAdams and SteveMeretzky. You can play it online [[http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/hitchhikers/game.shtml here]].

A 1984 [[InteractiveFiction text-based adventure game]] published by {{Infocom}} and yet another spinoff of that wholly remarkable franchise ''TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy''. The game was co-written by DouglasAdams and SteveMeretzky. You can play it online [[http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/hitchhikers/game.shtml here]]. Note however this webpage appears to have decayed and the game is now broken.

A 1984 [[InteractiveFiction text-based adventure game]] published by {{Infocom}} and yet another spinoff of that wholly remarkable franchise ''TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy''. The game was co-written by DouglasAdams. You can play it online [[http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/hitchhikers/game.shtml here]]. Note however this webpage appears to have decayed and the game is now broken.

## There are about a dozen tools hidden throughout the game. Near the very end of the game, Marvin will need just one of these tools to save you. Unless you have every tool, the game will randomly pick one that you don't have.

* GayOption: The game recognizes commands to kiss and [[IfYouKnowWhatIMean enjoy]] characters of either gender...[[spoiler:but it just tells you that this isn't ''that'' kind of game. Sorry, {{Yaoi Fangirl}}s.]]

A 1984 [[InteractiveFiction text-based adventure game]] published by {{Infocom}} and yet another spinoff of that wholly remarkable franchise ''[=~The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy~=]''. The game was co-written by DouglasAdams. You can play it online [[http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/hitchhikers/game.shtml here]]. Note however this webpage appears to have decayed and the game is now broken.