----- Original Message ----- From: "Simon Owen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, February 19, 2001 11:06 PM Subject: RE: Another thingy , cataloging sam discs!
> 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... I think we intended to change it over - but never got chance ... Colin Jordan was breathing down my neck, and I was breathing down Matthews ... not a pretty site ;)
