Siege of the Seventh Galaxy was an mid-80s videogame that strived to raise the stakes of gaming and make the gamer play with a greater sense of investment by erasing itself if the player died or stopped the program.

The last known person to play a copy of it was Tom, a long time Hawaii resident. His copy (actually on load from a helicopter pilot friend) was erased when his employer’s liaison caught him sneaking time with the game in a quiet corner of the manor and terminated the game not knowing the consequences. The game reformatted the game disk and the computer’s hard disk which contains the liaison’s prized war memoirs.

The liaison, distraught and angry, exacted revenge by reporting Tom’s fancy car stolen which led to Tom’s being briefly jailed before being bailed out by his friend Orville, a local bar owner. Tom, seeing this action as unwarranted, took a weed wacker to the liaison’s prized Cereus Mandevillus which was answered by the removal of the head of Tom’s rubber chicken and its placement under his pillow. Tom then gummed up the manor’s antique cannon with cement and then found most of his treasured bric-a-brac like his Tigers baseball jersey, baseball glove and gorilla mask had been suddenly donated to an orphanage.

Then Tom blew up the liaison’s scale popsicle stick model of the bridge over the River Kwai with explosives and a detonator and we all agreed that was the best episode of that show ever.