WHAT WE KNOW

just the facts. no rumors here, thats the other page.

titleATTRACT MODE (all caps in every material)
developerdeadlink softworks ltd, reading england. 11 employees.
publishernone ever announced. self published? unknown.
engineMNEMONIC BIOS v0.97b (visible in the boot photo). licensed AI from vienna, lab never named.
platformwindows 95. pentium 90, 16mb ram, svga.
onlineCONTINUOUS internet connection required. in 1996!!! nobody had that
pausecannot be paused (official spec sheet)
release datewas going to be 30 january 1997 (distributor fax, ive seen a photocopy)
statuscancelled january 97, weeks out. no statement ever. the news page just stops.

THE GAME ITSELF: you are a man in a suit. he has no name in any material anyone has seen. everyone just calls him the suit guy. the AI runs his life on the internet, posts as him, earns as him, keeps his numbers climbing while he sleeps. deadlinks own words: "the life is maintained." you apparently walk around his world while it happens. that is the whole game as far as anyone knows.

WHAT A DEMO LOOP IS: for the younger people, an attract mode is the demo an arcade machine plays to itself when nobody is putting money in. thats what they named the game after. a thing that runs whether or not anyone is watching. you get it or you dont.

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