I bet he used the Nintendo Power Glove. It’s so bad.

I would do this in Far Cry before raiding a base. Plant a few mines around the approaches to the base in case the alarm got tripped. Always fun to hear the “We’re coming in from the north!” BOOM

Until the sales numbers came in

How do you leave it in a “functionable state”? Drivers disappear, hardware changes, libraries get updated, os’ update or die off, etc. You’d have to expose the source code to the public at that point and if I was a developer I’d want nothing to do with that market then.