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Post by stanleyb on Mar 8, 2018 18:38:40 GMT
Anyone else listening to it?
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Post by Slinger on Mar 8, 2018 18:45:19 GMT
I didn't even know it existed. What, where, when, please.
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Never mind, I Googled it.
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Post by stanleyb on Mar 8, 2018 18:50:06 GMT
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Post by Chris on Mar 8, 2018 19:33:19 GMT
Loved the first one
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Post by Slinger on Mar 8, 2018 21:43:40 GMT
In answer to the original question, the answer is now "yes I am listening to it" thanks to the wonders of iPlayer. I was amused to find a HHGTTG game on the BBC site, which appears to be a direct copy of the original Infocom text adventure I played many moons ago. Somewhere I've got all of the old Infocom games - The Zork Trilogy, Planetfall, A Mind Forever Voyaging, Leather Goddesses of Phobos etc - which were released for PC back in 1991/2 (as The Lost Treasures of Infocom I & II) if you can believe it. I wonder how playing a text adventure would feel in today's world of bleeding edge graphical gaming. |
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Post by zippy on Mar 9, 2018 8:20:39 GMT
I listened yesterday.
I'm sorry to say that it just didn't sound right to me - maybe I have the original so deeply ingrained in my sonic memory that it can't accept the new voices.
I didn't really like Colfer's book either which isn't a good start.
No hope for me I'm just too old to accept such monumental change !
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Post by DaveC on Mar 9, 2018 9:51:32 GMT
I turned off intermediately I heard Hawkins's "Texas Instruments Speak and Spell" from 1978 that just predates the original series. Wait, this is supposed to be an update.....................
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Post by MartinT on Mar 9, 2018 10:43:12 GMT
Leather Goddesses of Phobos !!!!! |
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Post by MikeMusic on Mar 9, 2018 11:49:38 GMT
Listened all the way through. Disappointed.
Doing it by the numbers
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Post by Slinger on Mar 9, 2018 14:28:20 GMT
I deliberately didn't comment on the actual show before others had the chance to listen to it, but I pretty much feel the same way as people have commented above. The trouble is, it could never be as good as we need it to be, to reinforce our memories of the brilliant original. I'll probably persevere though. I thought the fact that they got Stephen Hawking to participate was genius, but don't panic, Dave, I believe it was only a one-episode cameo. Many of the original cast have returned and guest stars to come include Ed Byrne playing Irish property developer 'Hillman Hunter'and Lenny Henry as 'The Consultant' amongst others. Jane Horrocks as Fenchurch and Jim Broadbent as Marvin have already turned up, in episode one.
Pointless trivia note- John Lloyd, who is playing the 'Voice Of The Book' used to be Douglas Adams' flatmate.
I think it's worth another half-hour of my time, at the very least.
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Post by stanleyb on Mar 9, 2018 22:34:11 GMT
Take my advice: this is a program that should be listened to via headphones. The BBC audiophonic workshop has done a great job of recreating the soundstage of the original. Never mind the story line.
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Post by Stratmangler on Mar 10, 2018 9:19:14 GMT
Did you froods miss out on the Tertiary, Quandary, and Quintessential phases?
The current one isn't called the Hexagonal phase for nothing.
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