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

Please I'm desperate!

Reply if you have any.

aka

It's all to do with the electronic thumb, peanuts and a bit of fluff. You should be onto the Vogon ship in no time...

It's all to do with the electronic thumb, peanuts and a bit of fluff. You should be onto the Vogon ship in no time...

Okay, the fluff?! Ah, ">Put on gown
You are now wearing your gown.
>Open Pocket
>play with pocket Fluff
>arrive on vogon ship" ?

*ooooooh* Now I'll have to go find the peanuts...

To get Ford to take you, you don't take the towel straight away. Just ask him about the house a couple of times. Don't take the towel until everything's sorted about the house.

Now to find out about the peanuts... I know what I'm going to do with them when I get them...

You realise you got me hooked now, aka!

If only I knew how to get the peanuts!!!

Try a pub

Yeah, the pub..go south along the country lane as far as i recall!

I Have seen the brilliant show but not heard the original radio series, so the trick is, remembering it bit by bit! Though, I suppose you could always have your video/walkman near you so you can Whizz through it. LOL

I DID get to the bit past the towel giving thing, but then It was too late and a stray brick had hit me just after I took the towel and ford ran off. ... stupid towel. Doesn't he give artuhr a towel from the vogon store room later on anyway? or is it in the radio series he does that?

And yes, SMoB, it has a very, very, very, high, hookability rating.

aka

I doesn't follow the book for very long...

Wait until prosser lies down before getting the towel...

And I can't give you any more clues, since I got and went to find a cheat site, so I think I've disqualified myself

tut tut tut erm what do i call you? buttercup? will that do? I think You have disqualified yourself. Does it not follow the book long? or the radio show? or the TV show? hmm, ah well.. I suppose they knew about it being easy to follow the storylines of the original show to the game, eh?

aka

As far as I remember once in the pub, just drink the beer, and buy the sandwich, don't worry about the peanuts ford buys them and then will give you some when you arrive after hitching a lift onto the Vogon ship. The sandwich is vital for later on in the game; you must give it to the dog you see outside the pub, just after you rush out when you hear your house being nocked down; the dog eats the sandwich and ignores the passing fleet of microscopic spaceships which, if you get far enough you will end up on later on in the game, although don't worry about being blown up by the Vogons when in these microscopic spaceships as its all to do with time and stuff so its not necessarily follwoing that when in the small microscopic ships you get eaten or blown up y the dog or the Vogons respectivily, although that bit is some way on in the game if i remember correctly...

Wow, You are desperate! I was around when they wrote the first version of this game. You need the sub-ethera thumb to hitchhike.
this will put you on board the Vogon ship. In the original version
Ford would offer you peanuts. If you did not eat the peanuts you would die.
There was a bug in the original program so nobody ever won the game.

You can call me Buttercup if you like

And yeah, I can only last so long at these games before cheating

i must have had the first version no wonder why i Couldn't ever complete it must get another copy of a newer version as i Haven't played for year year years and years year days weeks years months ages tons of time loads of lolly :: bugblatter beast !

An interesting aside about the towel
The Hitchhikers guide to the planets(not this one , the one in the game) says that you never NEVER leave a planet unless you first give back any towel you have borrowed. So once Arthur has his towel back
Ford Prefect feels free of the obligation and leaves(without Arthur).

I didn't know that he mutters to himself, incoherently mumbling and wanders off towards douglas adams dot com again

The way around that problem is simply to ignore the towel.
If you don't take it then he will stay and talk Mr Prosser into taking your place in front of the bulldozer.

I Know that much by now, thanks bark

But I'm now faced with the problem on how to get Ford to hold on to the thumb.. stupid wind's too strong for him to get to me and when i type ">Grab ford" etc, it says "Not Bloody Likely". Oh the humour Is the dog outside the pub, by the way, the same dog that accidentally swallowed the microscopic fleet of spaceships of the Gug'vunts and the Vl'Hurgs? You know, When arthur says "I seem to be having this" erm..forgot.."..with my lifestyle..." in slartibartfast's officey thing?

peter Jones then says "But in the Vl'hurg toungue, this was the worst insult imaginable. And the only thing for it was to fight to the death." *cue arkonoid style battling animation by Rod Lord and you have a winner!* "After many years, the two species" (I'm para-phrasing now) "found out that it was arthur who had said the unthinkable remark all those yers ago, and set off for planet earth" *now cue heros coming to win the day type music and you have another winner!* "...where the entire fleet was accidentally swallowed by a small dog"

I Love that bit...

Sorry to take so long, but is that the dog or isn't it?

the dog is just a side issue. When Ford drops the device
you don't have to give it back to him. Pick it up, examine it
and push the green button. this will get you transported off the planet.