er, I wrote wrote: > I wondered whether it was for legal reasons - maybe some friend > of Matthew's was unhappy with the reference.
After a bit of digging: "Probably the most famous level of Manic Miner is 'Eugene's Lair', a level named after fellow Bug-Byte programmer Eugene Evans, who had told Matthew Smith that he didn't think Manic Miner would work." ""It started with a skit on Eugene Evans," says Matthew, reclining on his yellow foam mattress and smiling benevolently at the thought of Eugene. "The animated toilet seats were my little brother's idea. He wanted toilet seats in the game." Anthony Smith was three at the time." "Eugene Evans is currently working in Chicago at Viacom New Media. He's been there for a good few years before which it was Icom Simulations, Inc. the people who did the CD-ROM Sherlock Holmes games, T-MON for the Mac, and Dracula Unleashed." So I guess Eugene was well aware of it after all! > Just seemed odd to me that the remaining levels kept their original > names (that I've seen anyway). It does still seem odd that at least 2 different platform versions both renamed the same single screen... Si
