Spaceship Titanic

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Spaceship Titanic
Original title Starship Titanic
Studio The Digital Village
Publisher Simon & Schuster
Senior Developer Douglas Adams
Erstveröffent-
lichung
United KingdomUnited Kingdom1997 1999
GermanyGermany
platform Mac OS , Windows
genre Adventure
Game mode Single player
control mouse
language English German

Starship Titanic is one of Douglas Adams and the company The Digital Village developed computer game of Adventure - genres that appeared in 1997 and a German version under the title 1999 Starship Titanic was released.

action

After an interstellar pleasure cruiser named Titanic is stranded in their living room , a person who is not specifically named finds himself in the awkward position of being the only sensible creature together with a group of not completely sane artificial intelligences (including a confused butler bot , an unfriendly Reception bot, a conversationally gifted bar bot and a parrot) to fly through space. His only task: to get the central computer "Titania" going again and to enable his journey home. A not insignificant task of solving the Adventures is from the lowest travel category SGT, the " S uper G alactic T rave arterial Class" (German "Super Galactic Hitchhiker Class") on the Second to the First Class ascend.

Game principle and technology

What was particularly new about the program was the linguistic communication option for the player. All figures can directly in itself formulated sets via the so-called PET (= " P ersönliches E lektronisches T eil") are addressed and respond accordingly. The further control resulted from the usual inventory .

Production notes

As a gag there is a time bomb on the spaceship that keeps miscounting during the countdown and is represented by the voice of John Cleese , one of the co-founders of Monty Python .

The voice of the parrot comes from his Python colleague Terry Jones . Douglas Adams himself is present at least twice in the game, once as a man who appears on the TV at the beginning of the game as soon as he is switched on, and then as Leovinus, the designer of the Starship Titanic . In the English version, Adams gives his voice to Mother , the control center of the ship's transport system.

In 1997, Jones published the book Douglas Adams's Starship Titanic by Simon & Schuster . Adams couldn't write it himself because he was busy developing the game. Since the publisher wanted to publish the book and the game at the same time, Terry Jones was chosen. The book does not really contribute to the solution of the game.

  • Terry Jones & Douglas Adams: Douglas Adams's Starship Titanic (English) Pan Books, London 1997, ISBN 0330354469
  • Terry Jones & Douglas Adams: Spaceship Titanic (ex. Benjamin Schwarz), Goldmann , Munich 1998, ISBN 3442307988
  • Terry Jones & Douglas Adams: Raumschiff Titanic ( SWR- Hörbuch, with Martin Seifert, Frank Stöckle, Nina Less and others), Audio Verlag July, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3898130037

reception

Meta-ratings
Database Rating
GameRankings 64%

Starship Titanic received mixed reviews. In GameRankings , 16 reviews give an average of 4.25 out of 5 points, which corresponds to 85% approval.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. a b GameRankings.com: Starship Titanic. Retrieved January 23, 2020 .