Okay, so I’m not supposed to be doing this — the writing of this post or the playing of the video game I’m about to mention — but the greatest video game of all-time has been spiffed up and re-released by the BBC.
Written by Douglas Adams, the text-based game is based on the text-based novel and text-based screenplay of the same name. It’s a game from the time when games were games, men were real men, and women were real women. Kumquats didn’t exist. Lemurs were simply a rumor. Tacos were mythical things that hunted in packs on the Mexican river banks. The world had yet to resolve into actual pictures, which is why all of our games were simply letters and empty space strung together.
It’s got Douglas Adams’s trademark humor and is engrossing to play, and I’m doing all I can not to play it right now, because I need to finish editing my book. And the more I talk about it here the more I’m going to want to play it. So I’ll just say that you should really, really check out this game, take a trip down memory lane, even if you’ve never seen or played this game before. Unless you’re working on a novel. In which case, you should work on that, first, then you can go play your video games. Consider it a carrot at the end of the tunnel.