* DancingBear: The sheer depth of how interactive the 'Bots were formed a huge part of the promotional material. At the time, most adventure and role-playing games offered very limited conversation trees, and fully free-form conversations were unheard of.
* HarsherInHindsight: Leovinus' closing message at the end of the game can lose its humor when considering [[Creator/DouglasAdams who played him]] and what happened to him after the game was finished. A Website/YouTube video of the clip in question even lists it as [[TearJerker "Douglas Adams Eulogy?"]]
* HilariousInHindsight:
** Another ''Starship Titanic'' went wrong in the ''Series/DoctorWho'' Christmas special "Voyage of the Damned".
*** Given Douglas Adams‘ place within Doctor Who culture (and that Russell T. Davies specifically is enough if a fan to have written Hitchhikers Guide introductions) this is certainly a knowing reference rather than fun coincidence!
** ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' did the same thing in "[[Recap/FuturamaS1E10AFlightToRemember A Flight To Remember]]" but it was more a parody of ''Film/Titanic1997'' RecycledInSpace.
** The music room puzzle was designed by Douglas Adams himself, and the idea of an automated band of instruments wouldn't be seen until ''Music/{{Animusic}}'' a few years later.
** The third class entertainment room, a small cupboard like place where you can stare at a painting and listen to music, sounds a lot like the Amazon 'wellness chamber' doesn't it?
* SerialNumbersFiledOff: The novel seems to be going out of its way not to mention anything from ''Franchise/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy'' series that the game spun off of. The [[TranslatorMicrobes translation blisters]] are the equivalent to Babel fish and the Titanic has an unnamed method of FasterThanLightTravel instead of a prototype Infinite Improbability Drive.