Now it feels like every search result is just 100 pages of AI generated, generic content used to drive clicks to the site. Maybe a bit of the magic was your youth, but the tech was new and magical to everyone.Įvery article I read back then was written by a real person about something they cared about. The internet was full of early adopter, tech enthusiast types. So, it's all fun and games until a server is hard rebooted.īoth. When the project manager arrived, he went to check on the status of the server, only to find the BSOD. The main dev on the project comes in, sees the bluescreen and proceeds to restart the computer! Oops.Ī few years later, on another multi-year large software project at this PNW tech company, the morning that the software was supposed to be signed off and released to manufacturing, the build lab, different group of people, installed the BSOD screensaver and disconnected the mouse and keyboard on the dogfood server for the project. They installed the BSOD screensaver and disconnected the mouse and keyboard. Wasn't long before the guys in the build lab took advantage of the screensaver. Released it to the company intranet and waited for the ensuing hilarity. Less than an hour later, most of it spent transcribing the bluescreen text output, I had a BSOD screensaver. Later that day, I read in one of the trade rags about a columnist talking about the efficacy of a bluescreen screensaver. The games are easy to learn and addictive, making them perfect for gamers of all skill levels.Working on a next-gen operating system for a large tech company in the Pacific NorthWest in the previous century, I was able to reliably bluescreen the OS when stressing the network using an internal network protocol driver. The games are timed, and the player must complete the objective before the timer runs out.Īfter Dark Games is a fun, fast-paced collection of three shareware games that are perfect for a quick break. In After Dark, the player must avoid asteroids in After Dark 2, the player must collect food and drink for guests and in After Dark 3, the player must collect candy. After Dark 3: Halloween is a spooky game in which the player must find and collect Halloween candy.Īll three games are played from a top-down perspective, and the player must use arrow keys to move their ship or character around the screen. After Dark 2: New Year's Eve is a party game in which the player must help guests enjoy themselves at a New Year's Eve party. The games are similar in gameplay, but each has different settings and goals.Īfter Dark is a space game in which the player must navigate a ship through an asteroid field.
It is a collection of three shareware games: After Dark, After Dark 2: New Year's Eve, and After Dark 3: Halloween. After Dark Games was released in 1998 for Windows.
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