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People keep telling me that Nuon is probably the most obscure video game platform ever created. Oh, they've not heard how the greybeards entertain themselves.

When I read the sentence, I was like "Wh... w... how? WHY? ...and OF COURSE it was distributed via FTP, I mean, what else do you use for entertainment in AIX. Or business, for that matter."

(Abuse)

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I mean, what else do you use for entertainment in AIX.
I once accidentally deleted all of our production portal apps in AIX. That was entertaining...
- I got my first job with AIX in the early 2000's after the previous admin did a reinstall of the OS vs an upgrade on prod, with unverified backups. It was a resume generating event.
  They lost over 3 months of data and barely survived it.
lol we still play some old UNIX games at SDF every now and then, but we’re not all graybeards either
- trek, if we are talking about classics (i’m still not good at it), but I grew up with MUDs, so those are my favorites. i got to play a little zork in the BBS days, and Legend of the Red Dragon.
  Hmm, LORD might have been my favorite of all time, if I had to pick one terminal-ish game.
  edit: i’ll have to check out atc, btw, i havent played it yet
I think the LaserActive and MegaLD/LD-ROM system was at least as obscure, there may have even been less units made and the cost was certainly much more, plus there weren't exactly many games released on laserdisc.
The Bandai Pippin also only sold half as many as the LaserActive.
- Well LaserActive at least got the Retsupurae reaction 7 years ago, so it's not totally obscure.
Every time I see yet another obscure game/platform article or video, I realise that I've once again forgotten how little most people delve into the history of their creative media. I'm teaching myself about Soviet clones and niche Japanese systems that came out before I was born, and some 20-something self-proclaimed video game historian is releasing a video titled "The most obscure game that NO-ONE remembers" and it's about Legacy of Kain or Space Quest or Sly Cooper or some other million-selling franchise that just hasn't had a new release in the last 5-10 years.
I'm waiting for these guys to get old enough to start seeing "world's most obscure game" videos about Minecraft and Fortnite.
AIX is pretty obscure as a gaming platform, though, I'll give you that.
I had completely forgotten Abuse. I had it on my SGI Indy2 back when the game was new.

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