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Acromania (aka Acrophobia) was a bot-managed [IRC] party game where denizens of a channel would be presented with an acronym and posed with the challenge of cooking up the most vote-winning backronym to explain it. There may be a hazy original version of this game (like the "Dictionary" party game) where players simply tried to guess an acronym's actual meaning vs. plausible yet bogus explanations provided by other players, but the way it was played when we saw it consistently involved trolling for votes by cooking up the most hilariously profane possible unpacking of those particular initials. A version of this game made it to the point of being developed into a beta by the publishers of You Don't Know Jack (Berkeley Systems of After Dark fame), but it never made it to market. (Wired, 1997.)