First of all being our producer.ĭ*N, my god. I must say, this was a fun time coming down to San Francisco to do The New The message is dated July 1, 1999, just two days before the US ROM was completed. This makes KNT's rant in Iron Tank look pathetic in comparison. These are preceded by executable section names generated by the compiler, starting at B8FE65:ĭavid Pridie's long, long, long rant. Note that these rants have been cleaned up a bit to be readable normally there are no newlines, just a lot of spaces (that don't seem to align to any specific width). There are several hidden rants from the various programmers near the end of the ROM.
TETRIS SCREEN ART CODE
© NO ONE ELSE DID DICK FUCK ALL FOR CODE SO SHUT YOUR © © ANIMATION PLAYER © F R E E R A D I C A L © © SOFTIMAGE DATA CONVERSION © G R A N O L A B O Y © © LEAD,SYSTEM,AUDIO,ENGINE © M A R T I A L A R T I S T © © GET OUT OF OUR CODE YOU FILTHY HACKERS 8-) BITCHES © © This code is © Copyright H2O Entertainment Corp.,1999 © Starting at A6CF4 in the ROM is a very well-written and elegant copyright message: It took the hardcore gamers about three days to find it and post it on the internet. He figured it was his small piece of immortality and that no one would find it for years, if at all. At the time he got himself and H2O in quite a bit of hot water with Nintendo. Most know of Dave's involvement in the video game industry programming games, but not as many know about a secret message he slipped into the final code on one of those games he worked on.
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One of the game's programmers, David Pridie (aka "Martial Artist" or "martist"), sadly died a few years after the game's release. The New Tetris is a rendition of Tetris for the Nintendo 64, and.oh, dear. This game has hidden development-related text. This game has a hidden developer message.