IRC on a Super Nintendo?

u/Snektron April 20, 2015, 04:34:54 PM

i take it this is some kind of inside joke from the years before me?

u/Duke "Tape" Eiyeron April 20, 2015, 04:39:04 PM

Wacky Fun Random Number Generator/Game. A parodying take on the ludicrous amount of "Guess the number" games every programmable calc series have.

u/Snektron April 20, 2015, 05:45:21 PM

oh wow. I saw there was an OS of it too

u/Dream of Omnimaga April 21, 2015, 05:55:47 AM

Quote from: Cumred_Snektron on April 20, 2015, 04:34:54 PM
i take it this is some kind of inside joke from the years before me?

Indeed. It started in July 2000 as a parody of the crappy TI-BASIC games that flooded ticalc.org archives back then and made it hard to find the good ones. It was a very popular joke and there were some revival attempts (although sometimes a bit overdone by some community members in 2010-11 or so so it kinda died down afterward). Other long-lasting community running gags were the Omnimaga peanuts and Hays Games.

There is a similar prank that came up in 2006 when someone released a grayscale xLIB quadratic solver.