BSOD: The PC game you always play ;-)

While working on the Edubuntu textbook project, scouring the internet for rare Linux content, I chanced upon a rather exciting game which we unknowingly have played before. Since it’s inception in 1995, this game, known as the BLUE SCREEN OF DEATH (BSOD), is very much embedded in the deepest recesses of the popular Operating System, Windows. Little did we know that this game almost always pops up while cramming on an extremely important and lengthy report. Sometimes this game pops up when playing resources-hungry games like CounterStrike, Allied Assault and the like. And sometimes still, it just pops up even when you’re not doing anything to your computer!

According to my on-line source Uncyclopedia, “the Blue Screen of Death (abbreviated BSoD), also known as The Blue Screen of Doom, the “Blue Screen of Fun” or “Phatul Exception: The WRECKening” is an award-winning game first developed in 1995 by Microsoft. Along with HTTP 404 - File Not Found, a hugely successful epic Internet MMORPG developed by Microsoft, the Blue Screen of Death ranks among the greatest computer games of all time. The game simulates a “system error” and displays a series of nonsensical hexadecimal codes for the player to decipher. Since its inception in 1995, BSoD has maintained its position as the most played computer game ever, and is a cornerstone of the Microsoft Corporation.”

Now Data couldn’t even pass level 1.