h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

I prefer to leave my plans uncunned.

"I don't care what it says, I never laid a finger on him!"

Sorry, wrong author.

Great news about the radio series. I've never heard it before.

(Shocking confession I know)

I have it on longplaying phonograph records.

The new radio episodes will probably not be available here in Boston until they appear on CD's.

Well thanks to the joy of the BBC's Radioplayer, you'll be able to listen to the episodes over the Interweb for 7 days after the broadcast of each episode.

We'll post a link to each new episode as soon as Radioplayer has uploaded them.

Paully

The game's coming back too...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/tv_and_radio/3615046.stm

We want the to come back!!

Did anyone here ever get out of Arthur's bedroom in the game?

I did. I made it past the infamous babelfish problem (with help) but not much further.

The whole *world* is a game.

I scored the full 400 points.


It took me a while, though, and I needed one hint near the end...

I proudly made it past the bulldozer once, only to forget how the next dozen times.



Looking forward to the RP versions, it'll take me back to sitting in a sound booth listening to the first vinyl copies of the original which my audio tech friend refused to record for me.

Paully,

"Well thanks to the joy of the BBC's Radioplayer, you'll be able to listen to the episodes over the Interweb for 7 days after the broadcast of each episode."

Have you got Jeremy Clarkson's written permission to refer to "the Interweb"?

Traveller in Time making backups
"Take care, he will change it before you reload "

How very dare you, Plaguesville! I've been calling it the interweb for donkey's years! I shall have to have some words with Mr Clarkson.

Well, actually, can't be bothered...!

Paully

Got the babel fish and then lost many times, keep reading about how great the rest of the game was, but grrrr,

I tried to get onto it last week but couldn't. Seems everyone's hitting DNA's site to play it these days!

I too got the bablefish eventually. It was a very long time ago and I recall the necessity to stick your satchel under the vending machine and block the hole in the wall with your towel or some such madness. Makes me go all twitchy just to remember it...
Currently still trying to get out of the viridian room (see the Fiendishly Difficult Puzzle thread F19585) I hope that works...

Nope, never have got the hang of those links...it's there somewhere...

Is anyone else aware there is a competition on the radio4/hitchhikers site to write an entry describing Earth (in 264 words) to replace 'Mostly Harmless'?

Only open to UK residents not employed by BBC but surely a few researchers could turn their hand to this.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/hitchhikers/competition.shtml

Pimms