The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Starting game

The infamous hitchhike

Survived the Vogon poetry

Opening screen/starting location. It is pitch black but DON'T PANIC!

The beginning of the game (80 column mode)

Gameplay (40 column mode)

Starting location -- no introduction

Arthur Dent is hung over, which makes all sorts of things fraught with difficulty

Perfecting a daily wake-up routine

Cause-and-effect relationships?

This isn't good news!

A bold gambit

The most innocuous objects will go on to play enormous significance in the endgame.

I'm feeling better!

One of gaming's most protracted death scenes, to be sure.

Supposing I hadn't died, here's a different tack

More games need beer-drinking puzzles.

This dog will turn out to be a lot more important than its cameo here suggests.

So long, and thanks for all the fish

Hitching a lift into space

Awakening in a UFO

Receiving the Guide and using the game's internal footnoting system

Using the Guide to research Vogons

I got the Babel fish and all I got was a realization that I was years too late to get the stupid t-shirt!

Nothing good can come from this...

Starting location

Start screen

Cookie-saved game not loaded

Starting location

Clearly I need some help.

Handily, this new interface shows objects in the inventory and shows their names on mouse-over.

The sub-etha net is accessed when a new location is visited.

An early death

The HHG game and its legendary footnoting system

This will prove to be important later on.

The house is a pile of rubble, but larger things are afoot.

We will come to know this darkness very well indeed.

Emerging into the Vogon hold.

Looking up Vogons on the Guide.

I got the Babel fish!

A rare fan illustration from game 2

I'm skeptical.

Emerging into the Heart of Gold.

They will remain in that sauna for the entire remainder of the game!

Title screen and introduction

I woke up in my room, attempting to start the day

A large yellow bulldozer is attempting to wreck my house!

Title screen

Starting the day in your bedroom

opening screen

The solid gold re-release

Brushing teeth and inventory

It's a Douglas Adams-game, which explains why you can't even die in an ordinary way.

Title

Bedroom - game start

Exploring the room

Front Porch

Front of House

Friend Ford arrives

Country Lane

Pub - muscle relaxant?

Game save

Title and intro part 1

Title and intro part 2

Trying to wake up in the morning

Someone is trying to knock down your house

In the CoCo version descriptions often don't fit on a single screen