Douglas Adams' Starship Titanic game website (1998)

Douglas Adams' Starship Titanic game website (1998)(starshiptitanic.com)

37 points by galapago 1 year ago | 16 comments

crngefest 1 year ago |

Still have the original box and cds in the attic. Loved that game as a kid but was never able to finish it - similar to Grim Fandango in my memory.

stavros 1 year ago | |

I got almost to the end of Grim Fandango and it bugged and I couldn't find the thing the walk through said I should! It was very frustrating.

eesmith 1 year ago | |

Watched a friend of mine play some of it. All I remember is the game repeatedly saying "pistachio!"

pram 1 year ago | |

I liked how it came with a pair of blue and red anaglyph glasses that are only used at the very end of the game. I had lost them before I got there years after I bought it, most of the puzzles were complete bs.

spieswl 1 year ago | |

John Cleese as the bomb was a particularly fun role. This game just had a ton of personality.

Triphibian 1 year ago |

The notion of a "full size" screen shot has changed a bit in twenty years.

upon_drumhead 1 year ago | |

Well, it hasn't as that postage stamp was the full size of the asset.

nvy 1 year ago | | |

The good old days when 800x600 was considered solid and 1024x768 luxurious

upon_drumhead 1 year ago |

I would gladly pay $20 to get this the same treatment as Star Trek: Borg

https://borgremastered.com

galapago 1 year ago | |

That game was not really remastered, but instead they "used AI to remaster the original game footage to HD quality using a rare Japanese DVD release of the game". It is also not an official release (the game is not sold in any digital platforms, unfortunately).

teamspirit 1 year ago |

Clicking on "Mac version of Starship Titanic launches" leads to 404 not found.

Edit: I'm not sure what OP's relationship to site is so maybe my post is useless.

PhasmaFelis 1 year ago | |

It's a 26-year-old marketing site, so probably no changes coming, no.

moffkalast 1 year ago | | |

> Does it work on XP?

> Yes! Or rather, yes, it works until you install Service Pack 2, which upgrades the Cinepak® Codec to a special non-working version. The solution is to download Cinepak version 1.10.0.11 from the wonderful folks at Providenza & Boekelheide, who wrote the codec in the first place. Copy the DLL from the zip file into the Starship Titanic program file folder, and you're done!

It's OLD alright. I never thought I'd see XP listed as the new bleeding edge option.

Triphibian 1 year ago |

The.FAQ is pretty fun. Be sure to check out the mailing list sign up page -- there's a pretty funny pull down menu there.

galapago 1 year ago |

A remainder that the game can be played using ScummVM[1]

[1]: https://wiki.scummvm.org/index.php?title=Starship_Titanic

goosedragons 1 year ago | |

It's also available for purchase on GOG despite not being listed as a place to buy it on the Starship Titanic site.