Reminds me of game companies that distributed their shareware games with similar tactics via BBSs. You can even see vestigial evidence of this today. Check out

Reminds me of game companies that distributed their shareware games with similar tactics via BBSs. You can even see vestigial evidence of this today. Check out the Apogee / 3D Realms download page (http://www.3drealms.com/downloads.html http://www.3drealms.com/downloads.html), and note the non-insignificant number of filenames that start with the number 1. This caused the files to sort first on most BBSs.