Amazing. You can now play the classic text adventure (or “interactive fiction” as they seem to be called these days) game version of Douglas Adams’ book via an instant messenger client. It uses the Jabber network, but Google Talk is compatible so if you have that (or even just the Google homepage gadget, as shown below) you can play!
Just send a message to “prakbot [at] jabber.org”, and once connected, type !startgame to, uh, well, you can guess.
See here for more information.
Sometimes there are things that just need to escape my head.
COOL!
I remember playing that game on my Speccy (i think)
I remember seeing online version on the BBC website (i think)
I never quite finished it. Will give it another bash
I don’t think I ever completed it either, actually. I recall having a try a couple of years ago, but got stuff just after the Vogon Poetry bit, I think.