1985: Douglas Adams on HITCHHIKERS GUIDE TO THE GALAXY game | Retro Gaming

1985: Douglas Adams on HITCHHIKERS GUIDE TO THE GALAXY game | Retro Gaming | BBC Archive

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@MLB9000 2 жыл бұрын

While I don't have Douglas' talent, height, imagination or success, I do seem to have embraced his attitude to workflow, which is why I am here on KZbin and not actually writing.

@bahozek2147 8 ай бұрын

how are you doing right now

@glenhughes8013 2 ай бұрын

...or now?

@JagdgeschwaderX Ай бұрын

@@glenhughes8013 Got a feeling he's had writers block

@stocktonjoans 4 күн бұрын

He really was a hoopy frood who knew where his towel was

@gmann6269 2 жыл бұрын

2:04 "Douglas Adams has had a rather short life" Damn, they turned out to be right about that.

@whophd 8 ай бұрын

Ooof

@liammcooper 7 ай бұрын

yes but he was very, very, very tall.

@stocktonjoans 4 күн бұрын

If it makes you feel any better, his very last act in life was to grab his towel

@Tabletop_Epics Жыл бұрын

Douglas Adams exposed the absurdity of humanity like no one else. His work prepared me to live in a world such as this, where ridiculous people constantly demand ridiculous things whilst committing ridiculous acts in order to be utterly ridiculous to every other person.

@tachikomakusanagi3744 Жыл бұрын

And it just keeps on getting worse

@nazimelmardi 4 ай бұрын

Sir Terry Pratchett’s Discworld.

@DixieDaydreamer Ай бұрын

I first read when i was 13 back in the 1980s and it blew me away. The story taught me that nothing matters, "green pieces of paper" and "digital watches" mean nothing when you consider yourself in relation to the vast and huge universe, a very humbling thing to learn as a young teenager. HHGTTG lesson has stayed with me these past 40 years and my adult life has been one of responsibility but with almost zero interest in material possessions, reminding me to enjoy life, people and living rather than simply hoarding crap that will all end up in a bin when I'm gone! ha ha!! Cheers Douglas, you change mine and many lives.

@karohemd2426 2 жыл бұрын

It's fascinating that voice control of games in the way Douglas Adams envisioned it in that interview never really happened, even 37 years later.

@johnq4951 2 жыл бұрын

You have to take a step back and ask yourself why you'd actually want that.

@frinkfronk9198 8 ай бұрын

chatgpt in 2023 saves the day

@enfieldjohn101 Жыл бұрын

Douglas' idea about an interactive game that you talked to and talked back to you is just now only beginning to become possible. Amazing, isn't it, that he was so far ahead of his time with his ideas. He came a little closer to that with his Starship Titanic computer game. You still had to type, but the game responded to a larger set of words, so interacting with it felt a bit more natural. It also had wonderful images and animations to it rather than a black screen with green text. I love the ending of the video with its satirical take on authors signing their books. Very funny!

@kellydalstok8900 4 ай бұрын

He would have loved the smart watches that are on the market today. In fact I think he would have been one of the first people to buy one. So much better than the digital watches of the late 1970s.

@livvy94 2 жыл бұрын

This is fascinating! I've never seen this interview before! I found a copy of the game online about 15 years ago and got interested in the hobbyist community that's sprung up around creating brand-new Interactive Fiction games. I haven't been into it in a while, I should check up on what new things have been springing up!

@jefftalbot4522 2 жыл бұрын

The technology is now mature enough for the voice recognition audio game shown at the end. I wonder if anyone's working on that using the Radio series ?

@nicktucker4916 2 жыл бұрын

Still such a great fan of this series. I had the original Mac game.

@hepphepps8356 3 ай бұрын

Very nice footage of a beautiful old Neve console in great condition!

@LouiseBurrows 2 жыл бұрын

I got stuck on that darned door in the Heart of Gold and couldn't progress, because of course there was no access to look up the solution on the internet back then.

@AlanCanon2222 7 ай бұрын

I played this on the Commodore 64 and it was fiendishly difficult, surely among the most challenging and creative of the Infocom games.

@NuntiusLegis 2 ай бұрын

You forgot to mention it is also hilarious.

@ianjohnson8419 2 жыл бұрын

The Babelfish puzzle was one of the best (and most exasperating) of any Infocom game.

@mattmid7012 2 жыл бұрын

Ah Infocom, spent so many hours playing their adventure games. Deadline was one I never managed to get anywhere with!

@ianjohnson8419 2 жыл бұрын

@@mattmid7012 I got all of the way to the end of Deadline, basically solved it, but couldn’t get it to end. I finally got a hint book, and found out that all I had left to do was ask Mr Baxter for a pen, and he would hand me what was the last bit of incriminating evidence. Sometimes when walking around the house and yard I imagine how it would be laid out in an infocomm game, which areas would be a distinct location with its various entrances.

@mattmid7012 2 жыл бұрын

@@ianjohnson8419 You got a lot further than me then. I can't recall where I got to now as it must be 30 years since I last played it but it was certainly nowhere near the end. Hope you don't come across the Grue walking in your yard at night haha.

@maciejzamecznik3146 2 жыл бұрын

According to some interviews there was suppose to be t-shirt "I got the babel fish" released by Infocom in 1984 as a response to people's complaints on game's difficulty. Don't know if it's true, but it got me thinking to get one for myself... to never meet anyone who gets that reference 😉

@whophd 8 ай бұрын

Douglas spent a lot of time telling interviewers how technophobic he was. I was in the room when he talked about science and liberal arts, and I literally thought he was going to admit to being a science expert - but no, it shocked me to hear him say “of course I’m an artist, and not an expert in science”. But he taught me enough concepts, or to be accurate, got me hooked into them. He was never the technophobe he claimed to be! Being the first person in England to own an Apple Mac (or the second, better ask Stephen Fry), he was an absolute tech geek that we’d recognize today on KZbin if he were still around. Just for a moment IMAGINE him reviewing the iPad. Or Apple Vision. I still think of him every time he misses out on a new technology he had already imagined, more vividly than any of us. Then just to prove his assertion completely wrong - he dabbled in computer game DESIGN far deeper than any other writer or author or artist of his stature.

@kellydalstok8900 4 ай бұрын

If only there had been an Apple watch around in 2001 that could have warned him about the fact he was about to have heart attack.

@Metal_Maxine 3 ай бұрын

Deep Thought's description was inspired by the Commodore PET.

@mrdorf2784 2 жыл бұрын

Man, I remember playing this game when I was a child. It was so frustrating!

@NuntiusLegis 2 ай бұрын

It's a crazy game, so you must come up with crazy solutions, think outside the box.

@GlennDavidson 2 жыл бұрын

Plus you can play the text adventure online right now at www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/1g84m0sXpnNCv84GpN2PLZG/the-hitchhiker-s-guide-to-the-galaxy-game-30th-anniversary-edition 🐬🌏🤖

@Hydroculator 2 ай бұрын

I've never seen him do an interview where the host actually gets him. They always approach him as being about as alien as someone in his books. He makes all kinds of dry jokes and they just look at him like he's just told them tomorrow's bus schedule. I would love to see him do an interview with an actual fan, or at least someone who has heard of his books prior to the two minute introduction from the producers just before the interview began.

@Thejamescaseyshow 2 жыл бұрын

Echo, open the exit hatch!

@mybachhertzbaud3074 5 ай бұрын

If you can find a way to run it, don't miss on Starship Titanic, along the same vein with Terry Jones.😁Play On

@KirillGriferov 10 ай бұрын

Deep Thought said that the Earth project would take 10 million years. Then why does the manual indicate 4.5 billion years in the TV series?

@hepphepps8356 3 ай бұрын

You should email someone and complain. Let them have it.

@ChrisPollitt 2 жыл бұрын

Douglas, you went far too soon.

@liammcooper 7 ай бұрын

5:30 genius

@bentonja668 Жыл бұрын

Hunter S. Thompson 6'3"

@ReadingGoddess 5 ай бұрын

Hello. I have a new booktube channel and have chosen a book by the magical Douglas Adams as my first reading. So, for all fellow fans - come on over, and enjoy the ride.

@Odessia-ij5ys 2 жыл бұрын

The film came out in 2004

@Spookieham 2 жыл бұрын

Which was utterly dire compared to the original BBC TV series

@Lord-Sméagol 8 ай бұрын

@@SpookiehamThe film missed out lots of good content, compressed other good content to a couple of seconds, only to fill that time with stupid extra content! The best part I remember is the Point-of-view gun ... and being invented by a woman! That was a gem of Douglas Adams' humour! I'm sure the film would have been infinitely better if Douglas Adams didn't die so young! The film was as bad compared to the books, radio and TV series as the American pilot episode of Red Dwarf was compared to the UK TV series! Danny John-Jules, when asked what he thought of the US pilot episode, replied: "You're American, what do you think of it?" and the response: "It was crap!" nailed it!