I brought this game up in class on Tuesday and I thought I’d post some links here as well. To get to the actual game just scroll way down and type the serial number (851108) into that text box and click Go.
http://www.douglasadams.com/creations/infocomjava.html
And if you, like I, are easily frustrated with this genre because of the seemingly limitless number of possible actions I’ll also provide you with this:
http://www.thecomputershow.com/computershow/walkthroughs/hitchhikersguidewalk.htm
So that’s the original version Douglas Adams & co. worked up, but here’s a newer version that incorporates a few minimalist graphics. An interesting addition to the IF genre, in my opinion, that retains all the frustration of the simple text-based version and yet expands upon it by letting me visualize what it is I’m not understanding.