Trivia
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy was named #42 overall among the “150 Best Games of All Time” by Computer Gaming World Magazine (15th Anniversary Issue--November 1996).
Contributed by
PCGamer77 
(3025) on May 01, 2008.
A version of the game with graphics added can now be played at
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/hitchhikers/game.shtml
Unlike the version found at Douglas Adams' website, you can save and load in this one.
Contributed by
LeChimp (308) on Sep 24, 2004.
According to DouglasAdams.com, the game sold around 350,000 copies. The site goes on to note that, with the development of graphics games, the human race rapidly abandoned all that it had learned about language resulting in Infocom's closing.
A java-version of the game is playable online at:
http://www.douglasadams.com/creations/infocomjava.html
(Note: "save" and "restore" do not work in the online game. However, as the game places a .z5 file in your browser cache (netscape, at least), judicious use of this file and a z-machine interpreter offline will render a working copy of the game with all features present)
A sequel, The Restraunt at the End of the Universe was planned but never was finished due to a BAD consultant.
Hitchhiker's came with some of the most humorous software trinkets (Infocom called them "feelies") found in a game box. For example, you get a "Microscopic Space Fleet" (a closed ziplock bag with -- apparantly -- nothing in it), Peril-sensitive Sunglasses (the lenses are solid black), etc.
