----- Original Message ----- From: "Andrew Collier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, February 19, 2001 11:10 PM Subject: Re: Another thingy , cataloging sam discs!
> At 10:44 pm +0000 19/2/01, David Ledbury wrote: > >From: "Andrew Collier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >> At 10:23 pm +0000 19/2/01, Simon Owen wrote: > >> >On the subject of MM... do you know why Eugene's Lair was renamed? > >> > >> Because the joke was already ten years out of date? > > > >And which Eugene was it anyway? > > As I understand it, this Eugene was someone fairly high-up at Imagine > software, which Matthew Smith presumably had some reason to dislike. (Did > they reject an offer to publish Manic Miner? Or maybe he used to work > there. Or something - I remember reading about this in one of Ian's old > copies of Your Computer but I can't remember the details.) > > Anyway, "Attack Of The Mutant Telephones" was supposedly a satire on Jeff > Minter's titles, and that got renamed too. Conspiracy theorists of the > world unite. I think Matthew got bored of some of the original names :) What was it became now? Teenage Mutant Ninja Telephones or something? :)
