"The New Tetris (Nintendo 64)
David Pridie was a programmer who passed away suddenly in 2001 at the young age of 29. He left us with several games, one containing a notorious chunk of hidden text. The Nintendo 64 puzzle game The New Tetris contains a blistering rant targeted at the game's producer. Pridie didn't think anyone would find his message for a long time; it actually took all of three days before it was found and posted online. Here is an excerpt:
'I must say, this was a fun time coming down to San Francisco to do The New Tetris.
Allthough there were a few problems. First of all being our producer.. D*N, my god.. is
this guy useless or what?? I don't hate you D*N.. but you SUCK, and I mean SUCK as
a producer. You should go back to testing video games, but I doubt you could even
manage that properly. I feel sorry for you. During this project you just sat around and
played video games.. starcraft and everquest.
Don't even deny that.. when you WERE working, it was making stupid Excel (tm)
spreadsheets to try and tell me how many bugs I had left to fix on a graph.. like WTF
is that??? who cares.. I have the bug list in front of me, like I need to see it in freaking
technicolor. So D*N, I must say this.. hold onto, and fake your job while you can,
because once they find out how truely useless you are, you will be out of a job. I cannot
think of any skillset you would fit into in this industry, so you better hold on tight.
(This guy thought I could save a name in 8.4 BITS.. like umm.. .4 BITS?? WTF is
.4 BITS?? its either ON or OFF, not in between... anyhow, Enough about you though.
Well boys and girls, I just thought I would immortalize some thoughts I have at the moment
into a rom which will be burned forever. This game sucks. The music is great but the game
itself is not how we wanted it unfortunately. I mean, it is a good game, but some things
could be polished, as well as sped up. Could use another month to finish this thing off
AFTER all the bugs are fixed. oh well, woh is me.'"
