From Trip Hawkins, fouder Electronic Arts:
My first big design metting with John was on a train from two days going from Denver to Oakland, watching his two-foot-long unlit cigar slowly disintergrate in the dining car. When you meet with him privately, every sentence contains the f_word: one of his most amazing taletns is his ability to switch it off when he goes on air.
Sega actually wanted me to cancel the release of Madden and repurpose it as Joe Montana Football because Sega's development team had failed. EA executive Bing Gordon wanted to do it, but i Knew Madden was "The Franchise" so instead I convinced Sega to gives us $2 million check and we made both games. Both ended up in the top five best-selling games that year. Of course, in redesigning the Montana version I took out all of of our pet features to make sure Madden was the best game.
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The video game history is interesting, but I am more amazed how announcers can turn off their use of profanity, especially when it is a big part of their everyday speech. I know a lot of us do it around certain people or certain places (church for example, LOL), but still interesting.
My first big design metting with John was on a train from two days going from Denver to Oakland, watching his two-foot-long unlit cigar slowly disintergrate in the dining car. When you meet with him privately, every sentence contains the f_word: one of his most amazing taletns is his ability to switch it off when he goes on air.
Sega actually wanted me to cancel the release of Madden and repurpose it as Joe Montana Football because Sega's development team had failed. EA executive Bing Gordon wanted to do it, but i Knew Madden was "The Franchise" so instead I convinced Sega to gives us $2 million check and we made both games. Both ended up in the top five best-selling games that year. Of course, in redesigning the Montana version I took out all of of our pet features to make sure Madden was the best game.
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The video game history is interesting, but I am more amazed how announcers can turn off their use of profanity, especially when it is a big part of their everyday speech. I know a lot of us do it around certain people or certain places (church for example, LOL), but still interesting.
