Marvin the Paranoid Android Marvin the Paranoid Android Marvin the Paranoid Android is a fictional character in "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" series by Douglas Adams. Marvin is the ship's robot aboard the starship "Heart of Gold". Originally built as one of many failed prototypes of Sirius Cybernetics Corporation's "GPP" (Genuine People Personalities) technology, Marvin is afflicted with severe depression and boredom, in part because he has a "brain the size of a planet" which he is seldom, if ever, given the chance to use. Indeed, the true horror of Marvin's existence is that no task he could be given would occupy even
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (video game) actions not in the radio play or book that the player must perform to make the game winnable. Other puzzles are based so closely on the book or radio play as to be solvable only by those who are intimately familiar with Adams' work. In spite of all of this, "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" was rated as "Standard" difficulty by Infocom's rating system, though it was advertised to be at expert difficulty. The player is seldom given an actual purpose, apart from the implicit goal stated by the inventory item of "no tea". Much of the game is