During this year, REC would come up in Phoenix with REC602, a short commentline series. This would eventually lead into an interactive system dubbed "REC Generation 5". Unlike it's predecessors, G5 operated on a Unix based platform instead of a MS-DOS platform. This allowed for some additional functionality and it cooked on a 386! As the REC Cow was popular in the San Fernando Valley, callers in Phoenix were crazy about Pink Plastic Flamingos. The Phoenix System had a public message board called "The Never Ending Story", where callers append a message to an ongoing story. The story eventually turned into martians who used Pink Plastic Flamingos to take over the world.
