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Starship Titanic also has some of the annoyances that other adventure games share: the inability to do things--such as put a glass on the floor--simply because it isn't the "proper" solution; contrived puzzles (for example, walking around for long periods of time with a hot chicken that immediately turns cold when you Starship Titanic enter the place where it belongs); and other small bugs (such as graphics disappearing and other inconsistencies).
Look, I didn't come here for an argument, but I am in constant debate with myself over Starship Titanic. There are parts I enjoyed and parts that disappointed me. In the end, I can recommend this game to fans of adventure/puzzle games and Douglas Adams, but I can only imagine how much better it could have been if Adams had injected even more prose and plot into his creation. I hate arguing with myself, and at times like this I really wish I'd listened to what my mother told me when I was young. You might ask, "What did she tell you?" Unfortunately, I don't know. I didn't listen.
(Author's note: The author apologizes for certain passages, which are apocryphal or at least wildly inaccurate, that reference works by Douglas Adams or Monty Python. Editor's note: The editor in charge of sacking the author for including these has now been sacked.)
Tips:
-To get upgraded to second class, you must arrange your room so that you can lie in your bed and watch TV.
-Grab the liftbot's head from the bottom of the well and go to elevator four to fix it. You'll get Titania's eye in exchange.
-To get upgraded to first class, you need to adjust the settings in the sculpture room so that the deskbot is in a good mood. To improve all of the robot's settings, simply go to each statue and play with the levers so that the dials (in the lower left of the screen) are yellow instead of red.
-Take note of the room marker you see on the TV: it's upside down. Use your PET to re-create the marker (by Shift-clicking). You will want to go to that room and touch the lights.
-Use the perch (from the parrot lobby) to get the hammer (on the Promenade). Use the hammer to get the long stick (from the relaxation room on third-class floors). Use the long stick to get a lemon from the arboretum.
-The Succ-U-Busses don't like feathers, so a really big Succ-U-Bus really won't like feathers.
-The music room is one of the most challenging and satisfying puzzles. It wasn't until after I solved it and took a screen shot that I realized it's the same picture that appears on the back of the box. Argh! Don't look at it if you don't want to know the answer.
If you like this game, you might want to check out Dark Earth.

Hugh Falk is often credited with producing the world's first video-gaming magazine, PongWorld, which debuted in 1974. Unfortunately, an immature gaming market, a total lack of interest in Pong-related news, and the fact that he was six years old doomed the project to failure. Now he works as just another reviewer in the industry he founded. Agree or disagree with the review? Let us know.

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Starship Titanic
Simon & Schuster Interactive, 800/223-2348
Price: $50.00
Pentium-100; 16MB RAM; 160MB disk space; Windows 95; DirectX-compatible video card; DirectX-compatible sound card; video card capable of displaying 16-bit color at 640 by 480; 4X CD-ROM drive

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