Gaming
- Eve Online's deployment of the Trinity patch, which erased the boot.ini file from several thousand users' computers, rendering them unable to boot. This was due to the usage of a legacy system within the game that was also named boot.ini. As such, the deletion had targeted the wrong directory instead of the /eve directory.
- The Corrupted Blood incident was a software bug in World of Warcraft that caused a status ailment, that was supposed to be locally restricted to a certain level of the game, to be set free, affecting all players everywhere in the virtual game world. This caused players to avoid crowded places in-game, just like in a "real world" epidemic, and the bug became the centre of some academic research on the spread of infectious diseases.
- In the 256th level of Pac-Man, a bug results in a kill screen. The maximum number of fruit available is seven and when that number rolls over, it causes the entire right side of the screen to become a jumbled mess of symbols while the left side remains normal.
Read more about this topic: List Of Software Bugs
Famous quotes containing the word gaming:
“Sir, I do not call a gamester a dishonest man; but I call him an unsocial man, an unprofitable man. Gaming is a mode of transferring property without producing any intermediate good.”
—Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)