Retronauts Episode 271 Preview: List Inventory/The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy Session 1
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4.5 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 10 January 2020
⏱️ 8 minutes
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Summary
The Retronauts East crew (Jeremy Parish, Ben Elgin, Benj Edwards, Chris Sims) don their peril-sensitive sunglasses and attempt to escape the planet before the Vogons arrive in this real-time playthrough of Infocom's The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everyone, Jeremy Parrish here for a special announcement. |
| 0:05.0 | This week marks the first instance of a major new change for RetroNots. |
| 0:09.3 | Going forward, all our biweekly Friday bonus episodes will now be exclusive to Patreon |
| 0:14.8 | subscribers through patreon.com slash RetroNots. |
| 0:18.9 | We've made this decision to bring the show more in line with the practices of other crowd-funded |
| 0:23.5 | podcasts. |
| 0:24.8 | Since we were one of the first shows to seek community support through Patreon, we've |
| 0:28.4 | been doing things pretty much the same way since 2014, but the world of Patreon shows |
| 0:33.3 | has changed a lot since then, and we needed to catch up. |
| 0:37.2 | Like Bob has previously announced, all our weekly Monday episodes will continue to be available |
| 0:42.2 | a week early to Patreon's at the $3 a month level, and they'll also go on to the public |
| 0:47.0 | feed for free the following week. |
| 0:49.4 | But Friday episodes are now exclusive to supporters at the $5 level or above. |
| 0:53.5 | We'll still be posting samples to the public feed every Friday though. |
| 0:57.2 | That way you can decide if you're interested in subscribing or not. |
| 1:00.9 | This week is a special episode, a project I've wanted to experiment with for years. |
| 1:05.2 | I've gathered the RetroNots East crew together to attempt to play a text adventure game, |
| 1:10.7 | in this case the notoriously difficult Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by InfoCom. |
| 1:16.3 | How do we fare? |
| 1:17.3 | Ah, not well, but it's the journey and the communal failure that really count, right? |
| 1:22.7 | Right. |
| 1:23.7 | The episodes of Episode Patrons also receive an additional bonus for this episode of video |
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