Development blog for the original POP

[Duff-e]

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.

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.

[Zeta]

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

[dux]

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

heh heh

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

lmao

[Defrag]

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):

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.