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[[File:256px-Starship_Titanic_box_art.jpg|frame|Fancy a free cruise?]]
{{quote|''Bing-Bong! We regret to announce that the ship is hurtling out of control through hyperspace. All passengers with insurance queries, please contact your ticket vendors.''
|'''The ever-helpful announcer''' }}
{{quote|''Well, the ship has lost its mind, and so has most of its crew, including me...''
|'''Edmund Lucy Fentible, DoorBot''' }}
The brain child of Douglas Adams (''[[The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy]]''), ''[[Starship Titanic]]'' is a [[Point and Click Game|point and click]] adventure game set aboard an intergalactic cruise ship. The game opens with the ship crashing into your house, and before you know it, it turns out someone has lobotomised the main computer, the ship is adrift in space and it's up to you to fix things.
There is still a functional website that can be found [https://web.archive.org/web/20050511030750/http://www.starshiptitanic.com/ here]. There is also a novelization of the game by [[Monty Python|Pythonite]] [[Terry Jones]], who claims to only having agreed to Adams' proposal to write said book if he could write it in the nude. Which he supposedly did.
Not to be confused with two [[Futurama|other starships]] [[Doctor Who|named Titanic]].
See [https://web.archive.org/web/20130401044032/http://forums.techguy.org/games/877759-running-starship-titanic-windows-7-a.html this post] if you're trying to run the game on windows 7 (though be aware that the patches for versions 1.00.42a and 1.00.42b will no longer be available on Starship Titanic's main site; they can still be accessed through their archived versions [
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* [[Blood Sport]]: Nib. The BarBot is an especially big fan: he'll go on about it at length if you ask him, and the [[Feelies|In-Flight Magazine]] also has an article on the subject written by him.
* [[Brain Uploading]]: People who have donated their personality, like giving blood in America you get paid for it, with better personalities getting more money. The robots onboard all have these, thankfully they can be adjusted.
* [[The Call Knows Where You Live]]: After the titular ship reduces your house to rubble, what choice do you have but to to answer Fentible's [[Call to Adventure]]? In fact, if you type "no" (or indeed anything besides "yes"), [[But Thou Must!|the only acknowledgment your refusal gets is "An odd way to spell it, but I suppose it will have to do."]]
* [[Chekhov's Gun]]: Both {{spoiler|the picture of the night sky above your house}}, and {{spoiler|[[Feelies|the 3D glasses that came packaged with the game itself]]}}. These two items are completely useless {{spoiler|until you gain access to the Titanic's navigation systems at the very end of the game}}.
* [[The Computer Is Your Friend]]: Averted: the computer ''would'' be your friend... unfortunately, she's come down with a bad case of lobotomy, and the ship has rapidly gone out of control in her absence.
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* [[Cool Starship]]: Its a hotel [[In Space]].
* [[Dilating Door]]: The ship has two, the one visible in [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6mdVVcLIgKw the intro] and the door to [http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=oQDpxn31aho#t=1058s the arboretum], which 'grows' open and closed.
* [[Featureless Protagonist]]: We only have the Robots assurance they're even human.▼
** This is due to there being an ACTUAL game breaking bug on the final disk in the first printing that was missing a file that had the game's interface with their [[Fun with Acronyms|Personal Electronic Thing]] which is necessary to do anything with your inventory or even save/quit the game!▼
* [[Gargle Blaster]]: The BarBot asks for your help in making a fairly nasty one. Interestingly, if you ask him for an ''actual'' [[Hitchhiker's Guide to The Galaxy|Gargle Blaster]], he replies [[The Dev Team Thinks of Everything|"Nobody likes a clever-dick"]].▼
* [[Guide Dang It]]: One review dubbed the game's difficulty "Impossible unless you're the author or telepathic."▼
* [[Faster-Than-Light Travel]]: Which allows a ship from the other side of the galaxy to crash into your house.
▲* [[Featureless Protagonist]]: We only have the Robots assurance they're even human.
* [[Fun with Acronyms]]: '''P'''ersonal '''E'''lectronic '''T'''hing, a combination of keyring, [[Bag of Holding]], remote control, staff pager and conversation log.▼
* [[Fun with Acronyms]]:
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** Also '''S'''pontaneous '''M'''assive '''E'''xistance '''F'''ailure. The ship sailed from its space dock with great fanfare and promptly vanished.
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▲* [[Gargle Blaster]]: The BarBot asks for your help in making a fairly nasty one. Interestingly, if you ask him for an ''actual'' [[Hitchhiker's Guide to The Galaxy|Gargle Blaster]], he replies [[The Dev Team Thinks of Everything|"Nobody likes a clever-dick"]]. This is, in fact, a hint.
* [[Ghost Ship]]: You, a flock of starlings, and a very vocal parrot are the only living things on-board.
▲* [[Guide Dang It]]: One review dubbed the game's difficulty "Impossible unless you're the author or telepathic."
* [[The Key Is Behind the Lock]]: In order to obtain a hammer, you need to press a button with a long stick. However, in order to obtain a long stick behind glass, you must break the glass with a hammer. {{spoiler|Fortunately, there's a parrot perch that you can use in place of the long stick}}.
* [[Magic Countdown]]: Parodied. The bomb, once armed, would begin to audibly count down, get distracted and lose its place and have to start over. A lot.
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