The BBC released an online version for the 30th Anniversary of the Hitchhikers Guide with some additional graphics if anyone would like some nostalgia [1].

I don't know anyone who finished that game. It could be very frustrating. I was very pleased just to get the babel fish. Since then I have read the walk through and I doubt could have ever completed it without help. [2] (spoilers!)

[1] https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/1g84m0sXpnNCv84GpN...

[2] http://www.eristic.net/games/infocom/hhg.html

> A photo of a brain and a statement that imagination was the best graphics anyone could get [...]

Funny enough, that actually applied to computer graphics just as well. Have a look at eg the sprites of Super Maria Bros: there's so little detail, and your imagination fills in the rest.

(In twenty years, we can point at today's graphics and say the same, I guess. It's always easier to see with past works.)

we stick our graphics where the sun don't shine: https://web.archive.org/web/20150923005950/http://web.mit.ed...

we unleash the world's most powerful graphics technology: https://web.archive.org/web/20230117073114/http://web.mit.ed...

I never really played HHGG as a kid but started it up on my Apple //e using this wonderful disk image, which has a great front end for Infocom games, in case anyone hasn't seen it:

https://archive.org/details/PitchDark