This language dates the article, and (as a queer person) amuses me.
"A homosexual programmer at Maxis objected to the use of female characters as objects of affection in SimCopter. So, he decided to protest by putting what he termed "muscle boys in swim trunks" into the game. During the game, these characters would mysteriously appear and kiss each other, but only on very rare occasions. At least, that was the idea. Unfortunately, as the programmer told Wired magazine in 1996, "My random-number generator didn't work as I'd planned," and the characters appeared with startling regularity. Upon discovery of the errant code, the programmer was immediately fired, but the transgression spoke volumes about the frenetic and fragmented state of affairs at Maxis"
That's a pretty hilarious easter egg though, too bad the RNG didn't work correctly, then no one would have really noticed.
Part of me suspects this was probably a known thing that it went it, and he was only fired because the RNG didnt work correctly and it appeared too often.
"A homosexual programmer at Maxis objected to the use of female characters as objects of affection in SimCopter. So, he decided to protest by putting what he termed "muscle boys in swim trunks" into the game. During the game, these characters would mysteriously appear and kiss each other, but only on very rare occasions. At least, that was the idea. Unfortunately, as the programmer told Wired magazine in 1996, "My random-number generator didn't work as I'd planned," and the characters appeared with startling regularity. Upon discovery of the errant code, the programmer was immediately fired, but the transgression spoke volumes about the frenetic and fragmented state of affairs at Maxis"
That's a pretty hilarious easter egg though, too bad the RNG didn't work correctly, then no one would have really noticed.
Part of me suspects this was probably a known thing that it went it, and he was only fired because the RNG didnt work correctly and it appeared too often.