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Steve Meretzky – Working with Douglas Adams on the Hitchhiker's Guide
We talked with the designer behind games such as The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, A Mind Forever Voyaging and Leather Goddesses of Phobos.
American game designer Steve Meretzky startet his career at Infocom, where he created some of the great adventure classics of the eighties. I was working in the construction industry at the time, and not enjoying it, and so when my friends asked me to come on board as a game tester, I was more than happy to make a change. Our president, Joel, spotted it just before VIPs arrived, and erased it, but the name stuck around in company lore, and a couple of years later, I said, «Hey, everyone loves the name, why don’t we actually make it?»
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