Hollywood Hijinx is an interactive fiction computer game written by "Hollywood" Dave Anderson and published by Infocom in 1986. Implemented applying Infocom's Z-Machine, a game was freed all over the wide kind of platforms, including the Apple II and Commodore 64.

Plot
Buddy Burbank was the echt Hollywood success story. Non contented to exist as the B-movie actor, he fought his way to the top, started his have studio & became one of Tinseltown's virtually all acclaimed & prolific directors! Easily, at least that's how else Uncle Brother would keep close at hand told it. Actually, he married moneyed previous debutante Hildegarde Montague, whose trust fund enabled Buddy to open the studio. His picture earned much of money however super little critical regard... however he did handle to crank out further than 600 "masterpieces" prior to death of the heart attack several years ago. World health organization may forget such classics when Attack of the Killer Rutabagas, ''It Come from either a Neighbor's Home, or even Meltdown in Elm Street''? Nowadays dear Aunt Hildy has passed in too, & a streaming video player's character learns a terms of their like unusual will.

When a favored among completely of Chum & Hildy's nephews & nieces, a streaming video player's character stands to inherit a entireness of the Burbank estate, including their palatial home Hildebud. But only whenever a streaming video player may locate a x treasures (props from either Chum's films) that dodgy Aunt Hildegarde has hidden on the evidence, that is. Oh, & it totally has to exist as liquidate the space of 1 nighttime.

Hildebud is filled sustaining props, posters, & more memorabilia from Buddy's many films: the model of Tokyo complete by using Atomic Chihuahua, the Maltese Finch, & a statue of "Buck Palace, the Fighting Mailman" (star of such films as Postage Due & Favorite Delivery). Adding to the atmosphere come hidden passages, the convoluted hedge maze, & more gonzo features of the estate. Victims unknown noises that healthy prefer mortal else is in the home— come it simply gimmicks as well?

Feelies
Inside keeping sustaining a Infocom tradition of feelies, or additional game-related stuff involved in the pack, Hollywood Hijinx contained a as a consequence: A copy of Tinsel Globe, the made-up Hollywood tabloid A "lucky" swizzle stick in the shape of a palm tree An autographed picture of Uncle Crony by having the hint-laden inscription on the back Aunt Hildegarde's will

Notes
A punt's original idea come from either Infocom staff member Liz Cyr-Jones.

Hollywood Hijinx was rated "Standard" within terms of difficulty.

A working title for the game was ''Aunt Hildegarde's Secret.

Dave Anderson began working at Infocom as a tester prior to becoming an implementor. Hollywood Hijinx'' was a number one & merely game he designed spell at Infocom.

Dave's nickname of "Hollywood" is presumptively the jesting information to his alma mater, California State University, Fullerton. (Several of Infocom's employees, especially in the company's early times, come from either MIT.)