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From: joe.mason@tabb.com (Joe Mason)
Subject: Re: Hitch Hikers help
Date: 31 Mar 1996 21:16:00 +0000
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"Re: Hitch Hikers help", declared Randolph M. from the Vogon ship:

RM>> Perhaps I'm just being really stupid.  I've _just_ started HHGttG, have
RM>> managed to take the analgesic, get out the house, but, how do I avoid the
RM>> bulldozer???  Wherever I go I get flattened.  No fair!  TIA,

RM>It has been a very long time since I played this game, but as I
RM>recall there is almost no way to get through the beginning of the game
RM>without having read the book (I mean the real-life "Hitchhikers guide
RM>to the galaxy).  You pretty much have to do exactly
RM>what Arthur did in the book to get anywhere.

Yep, so here's some stuff you have to know:

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In the book, Arthur saw the bulldozer coming and lied down in the mud in front 
of it. (Layed down?  What's the past tense of "lie", anyway?)  They had to 
stop it, of course, and he had this really funny argument with Mr. Prosser 
until Ford Prefect came along and got him out of it.  Then Ford took him to a 
pub, where he bought him three pints of beer and told him that he wasn't 
really from Guildford at all, but from a small planet in the vicinity of 
Betelguese, and that the world was about to end.  Then they knocked Arthur's 
house down, and he went running out in fury when he heard the crash.

In the game there's some other stuff you have to do, too, of course, but that 
should get you on an even footing with the people who read the book.

Joe

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