MUSE Ltd.: SUG

SUG

SUG

noun Acronym for 'Single-User Game'. When obliged to use this term as the single-user equivalent of MUG, even hardened computer magazine journalists may feel a little uneasy. There are lots and lots of single-user games around, and it is patently clear that by no means all of them are 'adventure games'. What these newshounds need is a more specific term to denote single-user adventures, ie. SUAs, but that would imply an unreasonable degree of forethought on their part beforehand when they referred to MUAs as MUGs...