The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (novel) productions in the late 1970s. Davies himself appears as Prosser. This edition is out of print – Adams bought up many remainder copies and sold them, autographed, on his website. There have been three audiobook recordings of the novel. The first was an abridged edition (), recorded in the mid-1980s by Stephen Moore, best known for playing the voice of Marvin the Paranoid Android in the radio series, LP adaptations and in the TV series. In 1990, Adams himself recorded an unabridged edition for Dove Audiobooks (), later re-released by New Millennium Audio () in the United States and available
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (video game) "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" at #42 among their top 150 best games of all-time, writing that "Douglas Adams' humor comes alive in this text adventure". "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" gained a reputation for deviousness. "Computer Gaming World" reported on rumors that "several important people within the [video game] industry cannot (snicker, snicker!!!) even get out of [the] first room!" Perhaps the most notorious instance involved getting a Babel Fish out of a dispenser in the hold of the Vogon ship, which would translate the Vogon language to English. This tricky puzzle appears early in the game