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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
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
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* [[Achilles' Heel|Achilles]]
* [[All Up to You]]: True, you occasionally persuade the bots to help, but it's an uphill struggle.
* [[Arc Words]]: "Nobody likes a clever-dick
* [[Blood Sport]]: Nib. The BarBot is an especially big fan
* [[AFGNCAAP]]: We only have the Robots assurance they're even human.▼
* [[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.
▲* [[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.
* [[Chekhov's Gun]]: Both
* [[The Computer Is Your Friend]]: Averted
▲** [[But Thou Must!]]: In fact, if you type "no" (or indeed anything besides "yes"), 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.}}
* [[Cool Starship]]: Its a hotel [[In Space]].▼
▲* [[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.
* [[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.
▲* [[Control Room Puzzle]]: With a pretty star field.
* [[Faster-Than-Light Travel]]: Which allows a ship from the other side of the galaxy to crash into your house.
▲* [[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.
* [[Fun with Acronyms]]:
*
** 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'' [[Hitch Hikers 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.
▲* [[Fun With Acronyms]]: '''P'''ersonal '''E'''lectronic '''T'''hing, a combination of keyring, [[Bag of Holding]], remote control, staff pager and conversation log.
** Also '''S'''pontaneous '''M'''assive '''E'''xistance '''F'''ailure. The ship sailed from its space dock with great fanfare and promptly vanished.
▲
* [[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.}}▼
▲* [[Gargle Blaster]]: The BarBot asks for your help in making a fairly nasty one. Interestingly, if you ask him for an ''actual'' [[
* [[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.
* [[Moon Logic Puzzle]]: Of course you need to cover the chicken in mustard sauce before you send it...
* [[Old Soldier]]: The LiftBot.
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* [[Polly Wants a Microphone]]: There is a talking parrot on board, located in the unfinished ballroom. It belonged to one of the people building the ship.
* [[Ridiculously-Human Robots]]: Mostly averted, many of the robots look like furniture or art work.
* [[Robot Girl]]
* [[Sanity Slippage]]: The Barbot after a particularly powerful cocktail and the Doorbot at random times during conversation.
* [[Scenery Porn]]: The Art Deco inspired locations are mostly static, but ''wonderful'' to look at.
* [[Schizo-Tech]]: In a giant spaceship that can travel faster than light, there is a pneumatic tube delivery system and phonograph cylinders for music.
* [[Sidenote Full Story]]: The whole story began as a [[Footnote Fever|footnote]] in ''[[The
* [[Somebody Set Up Us the Bomb]]: There is a bomb on board, in Titania's chambers. The button labeled "[[
* [[Starship Luxurious]]: Of course, since it's a cruise ship in space.
* [[Stop Poking Me]]: Repeatedly clicking on the bomb after arming it will cause it to become increasingly annoyed, eventually screaming at the player that '''"[[
* [[Surfer Dude]]: The personality of Krage the bellbot
* [[Tempting Fate]]: ''Starship[[Meaningful Name|Titanic]], The ship that cannot possibly go wrong''.
* [[Took a Level In Kindness]]: Marsinta, the [[Deadpan Snarker|sarcastic]], [[Jerkass|deliberately unhelpful]] DeskBot becomes extremely kind and gentle once you
* [[Variable Mix]]▼
* [[What Did You Expect When You Named It?]]
* [[What Does This Button Do?]]:
* [[What Measure Is a Non-Human?]]
▲* [[Variable Mix]]
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