Realtime Software - The ABI Competitor?

 

Antique Bandit Interactive Written Log Server - Created June 1st, 1978 

Log 3 - June 9, 2022

 

Employee Name: Anonymous Employee #515223

Favorite Color: Orange

Favorite Song: Deluka - Cascade

(Note that any real life elements are not relevant to anything that is said or done at this company, but rather the tastes of employees.)

Yes, you read that right. Even a silly company like Antique Bandit Interactive had a competitor. Of course, they're even more obscure than ABI is, so it's no wonder you've never heard of them. Like ABI, they were also a mostly-PC game creator.  Neither ABI or Realtime Software, AKA RESO, made any games that actually exist in any major capacity. As far as I'm aware, anyway. There might be some programs floating around, but we both made horrible batch text adventures. The thing is, though, RESO had a mascot. It was some sort of orange raccoon-pigeon-wolf hybrid. They never made a game for him, but they were trying to. This is kind of a Black Mesa versus Aperture Science situation. One company accidentally caused the end of the world, the other made an AI that would probably end the world anyway by enslaving mankind and forcing everyone to do tests until they died, or were killed by the AI. RESO also made an AI, except it was in the form of their mascot. I think his name was Reactor. 

Seeing as our competitor (Mr. Error deemed RESO as our competitor) had a mascot and we didn't, Mr. Error set us to work on making a game that would have our mascot. Fearful Fox wasn't the first choice, but he kind of became our mascot by default. Guess it was the same with RESO and Reactor. If you're wondering, yes, Reactor was to get his own 3D platformer. Yes, I'm almost 100% certain Mr. Error heard of it, and told us to make a game to compete. However, while we actually have something to show for our efforts, RESO doesn't. 

Last I checked, RESO is still around, but their mascot mysteriously disappeared. Their mascot also had its own AI, but I recall a post from the 90s or early 2000s about their AI being forced to feel the pain of death in a game or something, and then their mascot AI . . . escaped? Kind of like what happened to our Fearful Fox AI. Hmm, wonder if they'll meet.