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(Sound in the video is NSFW.)

In 1998, Panasonic Interactive Media released Secret Writer’s Society, an educational game that teaches kids how to write. But because of a horrible problem, under the right circumstances in the Macintosh version, the game’s text-to-speech feature would read a list of obscenities.

Unbelievably, it took a few months for anyone to notice this. There’s some dispute about what caused this: Panasonic says it was a bug involving the game’s swear filter, while anti-corporate activist group RTMark claims it was an act of deliberate, internal sabotage meant to raise awareness about the dangers of outsourcing education to a computer game.

This version of Secret Writer’s Society was pulled, and it has been missing for the past 20 years… but this week, I got a copy. And now you can play it too!

Read the full article on The Obscuritory for the full story about this game, as well as a link to a downloadable copy via the Internet Archive.