Breaking the Fourth Wall: Your first action aboard the Starship Titanic is to press a large button beneath a sign saying "Press Button For Opening Credits Sequence" (which does just that).The robots onboard all have these, thankfully they can be adjusted. Brain Uploading: People who have donated their personality, like giving blood in America you get paid for it, with better personalities getting more money.The only occupants of the First Class Restaurant are the Maître d'Bot and Scraliontis, but the bot will insist that every single table is busy.Marsinta: Well, you certainly won't like the room you've got, then! Any and all of the approving comments made by the DeskBot in regards to your SGT stateroom.Artificial Outdoors Display: The Grand Axial Canal and Arboretum have a simulated sky on the ceiling.Arc Words: "Nobody likes a smart-ass." It's used to describe Leovinus, the ship's designer, and it's the passcode to disarm the bomb.Apocalyptic Log: The Missive-O-Mat in Titania's Room, containing emails describing Scraliontis' and Brobostigon's plans to sabotage the ship.Anti-Frustration Features: The 2017 ScummVM version includes an option to skip the last puzzle, which would normally have required the 3D glasses that came packaged with the physical game.Fentible tries to justify this in the intro, saying that because Titania was dismantled, the side effect made all of the robots unable to figure out the problems on board the ship. All Up to You: True, you occasionally persuade the bots to help, but it's an uphill struggle.Opportunity: Navoplex test run parametrically satisfactory but whining noise heard after system shutdown.Īction: Yossa gan Hoorg note Navigation Systems engineer removed from Bridge area. The maintenance reports range from routine inspections and inter-company bickering all the way through to funny. All There in the Manual: The website for Starlight Travel, the company that supposedly built the Starship Titanic (now defunct but available on the Internet Archive ), contains some concept art, design plans, maintenance reports, Brobostigon's diary, and even a calculator for various currencies in the Starship Titanic universe.Alcohol-Induced Idiocy: Once you bring the ingredients for the BarBot's cocktail to him, the mixing process fries his circuits and forces his personality to default to that of a happy drunk.Achilles' Heel: The Maître d'Bot has an "Achilles' Buttock," which must be prodded repeatedly before he will let you look at Scraliontis' corpse.Starship Titanic provides examples of the following tropes: Not to be confused with two other starships named Titanic. In 2017, the game's engine was completely overhauled as part of the ScummVM project for modern computer compatibility. ![]() There is also a novelization of the game by Pythonite Terry Jones, who claims to only having agreed to Adams' proposal to write said book if he could write it in the nude. There is still a functional website that can be found here. ![]() Set aboard an intergalactic cruise ship, the game opens with the ship crashing into your house, and before you know it, it turns out someone has lobotomised the main computer, the ship is adrift in space and it's up to you to fix things. ![]()
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