So, in the early 90s I was a PCTECH at McMurdo station, Antarctica and worked alongside a guy named Al Oxton. There was a game we (the InfoSys group) played for fun on DOS (we were all DOS + NetWare at the time) called LAN-LOK that Al had brought from Palmer station (the smallest US Antarctic base). He didn't write it, but he was the antagonist of the game.

I kept a copy on floppy for many years and later moved it to my archival hard drive and eventually noticed it on my NAS last year. I decided to try to reconstruct and document the known history of it, since it appears to be the holy grail of lost media -- lost POLAR media.

https://alphapixeldev.com/lan-lok-the-antarctic-dos-sabotage-game-lost-for-34-years-part-1/

I include the actual EXE and instructions for how to play it under DOSBox, so you can play today!

I contacted all the guilty parties (the original authors) and they no longer have the source or executable and gave me permission to do whatever I wished with it.

In the future, I'd like to decompile it, revise it so it can be played natively on modern platforms like Linux, Windows, Mac and maybe web, and open-source the results. Maybe put it on Steam as a free game for fun. Anyone wishing to participate in that, let me know.

I hope you enjoy it. The game is actually fun in the sense that it's very on-point for 90s LAN interaction (manually typing hostnames, costly typos, chaos).