10 Classic Games That Modern Gamers Can't Handle

6. The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy

It's probably fair to say that just about any 80s-era text adventure game sounds like an ordeal to today's average gamer. With typing having become such a central part of our working lives, the idea of going home after a long day's typing to play a game that demands you do it even more - with a whole load of trial and error - is pretty nightmarish. And that's precisely what the Hitchhiker's Guide text adventure demands of you. Type your way through an adventure consisting of endless oblique puzzles - the most infamous example being the one where you need to obtain the Babel Fish. The puzzle involvese pressing a button that throws a fish across a room into a hole in the wall. To stop the fish flying into the hole, you need to hang a dressing gown above the hole to block it; use a towel to block a drain below where the fish falls to prevent it going down the drain; attach some junk mail to a satchel, so that when a cleaning robot comes out to throw the fish and satchel up towards a second cleaning robot, the second robot is distracted by the junk mail on the satchel, thereby leaving the fish to be thrown into the air then landing in your ear... obviously. And it's not like this game was some niche little oddity either. In fact, Hitchhiker's Guide was one of the best-selling games of its era, showing that there was once a real taste for convoluted puzzle games.