[photonerd]

It’s also worth noting that it wasn’t exactly uncommon to have messages like that on exit. Apogee games did it a lot I seem to remember. Lots of DOS/4GW stuff too.

So the memory is… primed, so to speak.

[I_am_uncreative]

Master Of Orion II (1996) has that when you exit the game as well, plenty of games did it during that time period.