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title: "Retro Games"
url: "https://osherove.com/blog/2003/5/10/retro-games.md"
canonical: "https://osherove.com/blog/2003/5/10/retro-games.html"
published: "2003-05-10T20:42:00"
updated: "2003-05-10T20:42:00"
tags: ["Off Topic"]
author: "Roy Osherove"
description: "Here's a retro: Tech TV's \"The Screen Savers\" have a list of their f avorite Graphically challenged games . Some good ones there, but i especially liked this [text based] one: \" The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy The…"
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# Retro Games

By Roy Osherove May 10, 2003 In [Off Topic](https://osherove.com/blog/category/off-topic)

**Historical article** · Originally published May 10, 2003; technical details may be outdated.

Here's a retro:

Tech TV's "The Screen Savers" have a list of their f[avorite Graphically challenged games](http://www.techtv.com/screensavers/downloadoftheday/story/0,24330,3426372,00.html). Some good ones there, but i especially liked this \[text based\] one:

"[**_The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy_**](http://www.the-underdogs.org/game.php?id=3486)
_The antithesis of super-graphics gaming is -- of course -- text-based games. Of these, for my money, it doesn't get any better than Infocom's classic "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy." Based on the infamous five-book trilogy by Douglas Adams, you begin the game as the befuddled Arthur Dent, waking one average morning and failing to notice the large, yellow bulldozer in your front yard. I grew up playing this game and the "Solid Gold" edition released in 1987 manages to improve the experience without interfering with the original. Give your trigger finger a break, put your imagination to work, and download this game immediately. You can thank me later. (Another Infocom favorite you might recall is the popular_ [_Zork_](http://www.the-underdogs.org/game.php?gameid=1311) _series)._ "

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