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It's funny seeing interviews with the devs and they basically go "We had no idea what we were doing with the N64. How did this succeed?"
Then you find out about stuff like the fully functional ZX Spectrum Emulator in the game and begin wondering too.
That puts the fact that Jet Pac was in DK64 into a different perspective.
Don't forget the (at the time) most arcade-accurate version of the original Donkey Kong, too. Which they technically shouldn't have done, because DK was in legal dispute.
Slappers only!
It's amazing what happens when management leave Devs alone to do actual work instead of calling SCRUM bullshit.
Goldeneye64 : 1997 JIRA : 2002
scrum: 1986
Scum: 3000BC
Or anyone creative
Reminds me of the graphing calculator on Macs. Guy wanted it in system 7 so bad he ignored getting fired, broke into the office, and snuck it into the master build.
I cut my teeth on system 7 (well, 7.5) and this is news to me. Did it get quickly nuked?
Nope, it’s been part of Mac OS ever since, partly because math teachers loved how it let kids play with math.
Now it’s called Grapher.
I think I found the gap in my knowledge: it looks like it only shipped with PPC versions. I had a 68k Performa as a teenager. By the time I got a PPC box it was well into system 8's lifespan and I had stopped opening every little thing, probably due to internet providing those dopamine hits lol.
Thank you, TIL!
http://www.pacifict.com/story/
For anyone wanting a read.
"Broke in" is a bit of an exaggeration. Their cards simply weren't turned off and they managed to fake it until the project was finished.
If you read the whole thing you'll learn that for some time their cards were in fact deactivated and they had to sneak in behind other people.
Every shitty AAA release under crunch was not only stealing from you, but from gaming as a whole.
i wonder if they got into trouble for doing things without being ordered to
Until the sales numbers came in
The ultimate pain: License to kill. Slappers only. Oddjob.