Talk:Abuse (video game)

Another game

Abuse was also a text-based computer game for the Atari 8-bit computers written by "Don't Ask Software". The game allowed you to type in insults to your computer and receive insults in return - sort of an "abusive" Eliza. Google apparently finds only one web page about it, so it's not well known but it did exist.

I recall playing a demo version which featured an alternative background story entirely. In this one, the protagonist is not named, but is revealed to be a person involuntarily fused with an advanced battle suit (known only as "The Armor", which also becomes the identity of the protagonist) and sent to battle hordes of rogue combat androids known as "Ants". Does anyone know anything about this? --Mickel 00:33, 24 March 2007 (UTC)

I recall playing a full version with the same elements, altough I think the protagonist has been named in it. The Ants were supposed to be some kind of extraterrestial lifeform.--The Fifth Horseman 10:40, 6 April 2007 (UTC)

The plot was changed a little bit between the first shareware versions and the retail version. I don't have the original SW version's files at hand to check exactly what the differences are though, but if I recall correctly, originally the Ants were extraterrestrials and the hero is just a mind-blanked killer; in the retail version, the Ants are mutants and the hero is a prisoner. --wwwwolf (barks/growls) 07:08, 9 April 2007 (UTC)

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BetacommandBot (talk) 05:35, 2 January 2008 (UTC)

Bungie

Didn't Bungie actually port the game to the Macintosh, not just publish the Macintosh version? --DocumentN (talk) 08:34, 12 February 2008 (UTC)

Red Hat published Abuse?

I read in the article for Crack dot Com, Abuse "was the first and only game published by Red Hat for Linux". As I never heard of this and the info was added by Anonymous, I searched around but only found this press release about an agreement to publish games in the future. Does anyone know anything more specific? If they just put the shareware version on their distribution CDs, that would not have required an agreement. So either there was an official retail version of Abuse for Linux that nobody heard of or more likely nothing ever came out of it; which is it? -- Darklock (talk) 03:58, 29 August 2008 (UTC)

Recent revert

This edit made the article internally inconsistent, using the terms "Linux" and "GNU/Linux" interchangeably. This is confusing; we should use one or the other. It also reversed some noncontroversial copyedits. It should be reverted. Chris Cunningham (not at work) - talk 18:55, 2 March 2009 (UTC)

Release date

For the record: IGN says 1995/12/31 Linux, 1996/02/12 DOS, 1997/03/05 Mac. IMDB says 1996/02/29 first release. Some forum guy seems to be saying 1996/10/25 Mac - no source, but oddly specific. BungieVision Fall 1996 says summer 1996 Mac. On the other hand, Bungie's website seems to have the Mac version still not out by 1997/01/22. --DocumentN (talk) 19:34, 19 August 2009 (UTC)

This coincides with my personal recollection of buying Abuse for Linux from Crack dot Com before 1997 and receiving a boxed video game with a T-shirt that I wore incessantly for at least a year afterward. The article is extremely wrong in suggesting a 2011 Linux release date. --dreish~talk 23:42, 21 January 2019 (UTC)

Current homepage inactive?

The listed "current homepage" for the game (at zoy.org) seems to be inactive. A bunch of the links go to Wayback Machine archives, and the link to download the game itself results in a "Cannot find page" error. predcon (talk) 14:32, 10 September 2011 (UTC)

published by Origin?

It doesn't say Origin on the box anywhere. If they were owned by EA by the time, would it not have been published through EA if it was made outside their company. The game came out in 1996, and EA bought Origin in 1992. Dream Focus 01:29, 13 March 2013 (UTC)