BBC Online - Cult - Hitchhiker's - Douglas Adams - Technology

Home

Explore the BBC

Just to let you know, we're no longer updating this site. More information here

7 February 2011
Accessibility help
Text only

The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Home

Douglas Adams

	BBC Homepage Entertainment Cult homepage

»	The New Series Original Series The Guide Guide to the Guide Douglas Adams Service of Celebration Quizzes Poetry Corner Picture Gallery h2g2 Community The BBC is not responsible for the content of external web sites.
	Contact Us Like this page? Send it to a friend!




		video The clip should play automatically after a few seconds. If not, click here, or view RealMedia help.



	Internet Hyperlinks and Haggunenons Starship Titanic Talkbots and Parrots h2g2 Douglas' page at h2g2



		Computer Games Aside from the Hitchhiker's game, Douglas wrote another game in the eighties called Bureaucracy. The aim of the game was to get your bank to acknowlege a change of address card! In this clip from 1985, he envisions a future in which computer games run from exciting new Compact Disc Technology. Douglas used computers as tools for his writing, and realised they were much more than a hi-tech typewriter. He kept the entries for the Meaning of Liff on a hypercard stack (a kind of primitive hypertext system) until a virus destroyed the machine it was stored on. He went on to found a digital media and internet company called The Digital Village. Their CD-ROM adventure game, Starship Titanic, won a Codie Award and was BAFTA-nominated. The Digital Village also founded h2g2, which is now part of BBC online.

About the BBC | Help | Terms of Use | Privacy & Cookies Policy