But I think there were sheep, dancing babies (ugh!!), something like Bonzi Buddy rings a bell (I once had to clean something named that off a colleague’s workstation when he reported it thinking it was malware).
There was also toys like this on Linux and Unix too. Most famously xeyes.
I miss the playful era when things like this and novelty screensavers were “cool”.
But if you read the description of its spyware behaviour from a current perspective, it's not that different from the telemetry that’s implemented everywhere and Windows bugging you to use Bing as a search engine.
Gravity vs thrust, with left + right controls, the idea was to carefully land on any of the windows on your desktop.
Analogous to breaking the fourth wall, in a way.
I still recall the scrolling message in that game -- Space is big, Space is dark, It's hard to find, a place to park.
This needs to be on a Tshirt.-
(Sent to Musk. For the reusable rocket team :)
Fun toy though. Kind of like a tamagotchi.
Tamagotchi. Now that's nostalgia for you.-
I should still have a screenshot somewhere of lesstif/mwm with xsnow + xeyes (and xclock of course)
(Then again, some people like the mobile version better - kind of like a "reader mode" - and link to it because of that ...
The behavior you mention should be an user configurable setting, perhaps ...
That was nice sometimes.
We also set it up at school (IT degree) on the shared computers, but I think a sysadmin found out. We didn't get in trouble, but a classmate was caught and nearly expelled.
There was also this desktop program where you would choose from different weapons, I don't remember for which purpose... anyone knows what I'm talking about?
packaged for debian :)