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Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> wrote at 23:56 this Thursday (GMT):
> On Thu, 30 Apr 2026 15:48:10 -0500, Zaghadka <zaghadka@hotmail.com>
> said this thing:
>
>
>>I remember a game that deleted your entire C: drive when you uninstall
>>it. Does that count? Do you remember which one it was?
>
> From what I recall, there have been several games. One I remember
> specifically was "Pool of Radiance: Ruins of Myth Drannor" from 2001.
> The uninstaller didn't delete your entire hard-disk, but it DID delete
> various Win95-specific system files, which rendered the computer
> unbootable for the average user. 
>
> A beta/pre-release version of "Myth II: Soulblighter" (1998) could
> delete your entire hard-drive under certain circumstances. If you
> installed the game to your root directory , the uninstaller would wipe
> the drive. However, if you installed the game to a subdirectory, the
> problem wouldn't occur. However, this bug was caught before the game
> actually released, so no customers ever encountered the bug (a few
> journalists who were doing pre-release reviews encountered the code,
> but Bungie got a warning to everyone and nobody had a bad experience
> ;-)
>
> A brief search also reveals a game called "Deltarune" had a similar
> issue. It too would RM * the entire folder hierarchy where the game
> was installed (so, if you installed to C:\DELTARUNE, everything on
> C:\; if you installed to C:\Program Files\Delta Rune, then everything
> in C:\Program Files). I'm not familiar with this game, however.

i assume that was back in the SURVEY_PROGRAM days :)) in a sense it
furthers the meta aspect of that whole game

also, another fun fact but Undertale (the prequel) had the opposite
issue where it tries multiple times to delete its own binary once the
geno ending is completed

> There were also reports of some games deleting system files --usually
> DRM related-- on uninstall. It usually wouldn't render the OS
> unbootable, but it broke some functionality (I think the uninstallers
> of games that used Starforce DRM was were often at fault, but I really
> can't say for certain). 

There was also a case of Steam Linux accidentily wiping an entire drive
because an internal script forgot to verify a variable

> These issues were especially common in the early years of Win9x, when
> uninstalling was still something of an arcane art (and DLL-hell was a
> real problem). It's become less of an issue with Microsoft creating
> automatic system back-ups of crucial files (that'll silently reinstall
> files from if you try to do something stupid), and locking down key
> system folders so you can't wipe C:\Windows or c:\Program Files
> without making some effort first ;-)
>
>>Also. 
>>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nA1HVaupDyw
>
> The closest we've gotten to that is games that control your save-file,
> such as Rogue-likes, and delete it automatically if you die.

The "deleting the save file" thing is also a pretty common joke pulled
on the player, but yea I don't know if any games outside of rougelikes
ACTUALLY do it

> Also also, the game I was trying to remember in the earlier post?
> Virus: The Game, published by Sir-tech Software in 1997. There's some
> info about it here:
> https://collectionchamber.blogspot.com/p/virus-game.html
>
>


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