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Starship Titanic
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"Starship Titanic" is the first project to come out of that pipe. The CD-ROM, released in mid-April, comes from the school of post-"Myst" immersive environment mystery games. The premise: The Starship Titanic is the world's most luxurious intergalactic cruiser -- "the ship that cannot possibly go wrong." Of course, everything does go wrong (sound familiar?), and your task as an unwitting guest on board is to find out what happened and fix it.
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Titanic, Starship : The legendary and gigantic Starship Titanic was a majestic and luxurious cruise liner launched from the great shipbuilding asteroid complexes of Artifactovol. It was sensationally beautiful, staggeringly huge and more pleasantly equipped than any ship in history, but it had the misfortune to be built in the very earliest days of Improbability Physics, long before this difficult and cursed branch of knowledge was fully, or at all, understood. The designers and engineers decided, in their innocence, to build a prototype Improbability Field into it, which was meant, supposedly, to ensure that it was Infinitely Improbable that anything would ever go wrong with any part of the ship. They did not realize that because of the quasi-reciprocal and circular nature of all Improbability calculations, anything that was Infinitely Improbable was very likely to happen almost immediately. The Starship Titanic was a monstrously pretty sight as it lay beached like a silver Arcturan Megavoidwhale among the laser-lit tracery of its construction gantries, a brilliant cloud of pins and needles of light against the deep interstellar blackness; but when it launched, it did not even manage to complete its very first radio message - an SOS - before undergoing a sudden and gratuitous total existence failure.
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Starship Titanic begins very oddly. Apparently you are sitting in your house, minding your own business on a normal day. Your computer sits on the table in front of you. You must take a CD with Starship Titanic's logo on it and put it in your computer. After doing this, the big ship in question crashes into your house. So begins this disappointing adventure game.
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The Starship Titanic was conceived and designed as the most luxurious Galacticruiser ever built. So what's the deal? Travel around its more than 30 decks, interact with Bots and other characters and find out.
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The Starship Titanic and Spontaneous Massive Existence Failure were first mentioned in Life, the Universe and Everything, the third book in the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy "trilogy". This would seem to suggest that the game takes place in the same fictional universe as the Hitchhiker's Guide stories. However, in response to mentions of characters or quotations from the Hitchhiker's Guide, the game will accuse the player of mixing up different universes.
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The culmination of Adams' and Jones' collaboration, the Starship Titanic videogame will be hitting stores early next year. You can check the vessel's progress on the Starlight Travel Homepage (www.starshiptitanic.com). In the meantime, Jones is working on a new documentary series entitled "Ancient Inventions." His film version of The Wind in the Willows (featuring several members of the old Python troop) may or may not be released in America later this year. The full-fledged Monty Python reunion will continue to wait, though. The surviving members recently gathered in England to discuss possible projects but, as Jones states, "(John) Cleese started nodding off after an hour or so." And as for that long-awaited film version of Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy?
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