Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!decwrl!sgi!bron@bronze.wpd.sgi.com
From: bron@bronze.wpd.sgi.com (Bron Campbell Nelson)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Mario Bothers
Summary: Video game software
Message-ID: <64280@sgi.sgi.com>
Date: 17 Jul 90 01:32:29 GMT
References: <1990Jul12.012730.4248@Stardent.COM> <64044@sgi.sgi.com> <2767@awdprime.UUCP>
Sender: bron@bronze.wpd.sgi.com
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc., Mountain View, CA
Lines: 12

In article <2767@awdprime.UUCP>, tif@doorstop.austin.ibm.com (Paul Chamberlain) writes:
> [stuff deleted]   but I'm pretty impressed with how many Mario Brothers
> get sold.  That software runs on everything.  I have no idea what it
> was written in but I'd bet that its very modular, structured, etc.

And you'd be dead wrong.  Video game software is some of the ugliest
and most arcane assembler there is.

--
Bron Campbell Nelson
bron@sgi.com  or possibly  ..!ames!sgi!bron
These statements are my own, not those of Silicon Graphics.