THE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY
(c) Infocom, Inc. 1984

Background
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Beyond question the most mind-bogglingly hilarious story Infocom has ever
produced is The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, written and designed by
Douglas Adams, author of the phenomenally best-selling novel, and Steve
Meretzky, the award-winning designer of Infocom's Planetfall and Sorcerer.

As the story begins, you are Arthur Dent, and a bulldozer is preparing to level
your house even as an alien space fleet is preparing to level your planet. The
incorrigible Mr. Adams has written new material and designed problems especially
for this interactive story. So grab a pint of bitter and a couple for the road
and join Ford Prefect, Trillian, Zaphod Beeblebrox and Marvin on a cosmic jaunt
into the outer reaches where anything can - and does - happen. And don't forget
your towel!

Essential Information
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Type |CPM to load The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

Occasionally during the game, the text will refer you to a footnote. You can
read footnotes by typing FOOTNOTE <number>. For example, to read footnote 11,
type FOOTNOTE 11.

Use SAVE to save your current game, and RESTORE to load a saved game.

When running The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy using |CPM, the 64K version of
the game will load. If you are using CP/M Plus, you can boot CP/M Plus and run
the 128K version of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by typing HITC128 at
the A> prompt.

Further Information
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All Infocom games came with additional reading material and objects that set the
atmosphere for the adventure. Among the things that were included with The
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy were a "Don't Panic!" button and peril-
sensitive sunglasses, and pictures of them are included in this ZIP file. You
can download the material for The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and other
Infocom games from The Infocom Gallery at this URL:

<http://infocom.elsewhere.org/gallery/>