When the best-loved makers of text adventures met the best-loved sci-fi satirist of the decade, the result was an unforgettable classic of interactive fiction.
No. The Gown is not the solution the the Bablefish puzzel, if you use the gown then the game just gets bored and you're eventually shot out of the airlock without the fish but can still continue. The satchel needs to go on the hook. This article is terrible and now I'm upset.
This is really well done. Congratulations and thanks!
Thanks for the article. It was great to remember Babel Fish.
Great blog series, thanks! Which year was the hardest to downselect to just one game?
Speaking of 1984, I'm going to be giving Mindwheel (Broderbund, 1984) a spin (I just got its hardback book that you're supposed to read first).
No. The Gown is not the solution the the Bablefish puzzel, if you use the gown then the game just gets bored and you're eventually shot out of the airlock without the fish but can still continue. The satchel needs to go on the hook. This article is terrible and now I'm upset.
Tea or No Tea was my Waterloo.
That’s Zaphod who finds the 900 year old ship, not Ford by the way.