The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

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

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.