Comments on: Hidden messagin’

By: Lont

Lont — Sat, 25 Jun 2011 22:27:00 +0000

Never piss off the man who writes the code… that’s sort of elementary, really. Awesome article though, was just what I needed.

By: Dylan

Dylan — Mon, 04 Apr 2011 04:50:00 +0000

He mentions “Takayama”, which I assume is a reference to Hirohiko Takayama who did the music for that game (as well as some more well known stuff like Bonk’s Adventure and Xexyz). He’s pretty easy to get in touch with, in fact I’ve spoken to him before, though not about this game in particular.

By: Alex

Alex — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 00:31:40 +0000

I could never imagine actually checking this. I’d just play the game. You never know whats around you till you look. Classic!

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Hidden messagin’ part 2 @ Magweasel — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 04:12:23 +0000

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By: gromit

gromit — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 15:13:33 +0000

Someone asked why people take the effort. Simply because programmers spend very long days implementing someone else’s ideas (being in the middle when someone critizises you for implementing other guy’s requirements). On many projects the programmers just can’t win or be proud what they did. This all leads to a high stress and high level of frustration at the end of the project. Having a some way to vent one’s feelings, especially is small hacky way is OK with programmers (especially in cultures not OK with open communication).

I did my share of games programming (from trainee to lead programmer) in the golden 80s and definitely left my finger print on few places at every project.

Thanks for the great article!

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By: Hidden Messages | Superposition Kitty

Hidden Messages | Superposition Kitty — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 23:57:13 +0000

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By: Persona

Persona — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 04:10:12 +0000

This was really interesting. Thanks for finding it and translating it, Kevin.

I wonder if these kinds of things still happen in games released now. It seems like it’d be more difficult to hide a personal message like this now when there’s so many people working on a project though.

By: Someone

Someone — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 06:33:53 +0000

The decimal mode for the 6502 was probably taken out because that is one of the few things in 6502 which was actually patented.