Development blog for the original POP

    http://jordanmechner.com/old-journals/page/11/

    Very cool. Some insight into not only the game but some of the world events happening during production. It's great reading how a guy making one of the most iconic games of all time would abandon it all to be a successful hollywood screenwriter if he could.

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    Showed POP to the Tribunal – Gary, Gene, Brian, Sophie K. (of Marketing), and Ann Kronen.Ann and Sophie, who hadn’t seen it before, gasped over the animation.

    Read through this the other evening. Really stange to read his comments about the release of tetris and the gameboy for the first time.

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    I’m very happy with how things are going. With combat, this will be one of the greatest games of all time.

    heh heh

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    Microsoft Word 4 arrived via Fed Express. I booted it up and it crashed immediately.

    lmao

    haha dux, I was just about to post the exact same Word quote

    It's a really good read. Especially this bit (after struggling to get the game marketed properly for ages):

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    January royalty check came in at $56,000. I’m still in a daze. That’s the whole next year paid for right there. I guess now I can stop worrying about money.

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