From:
Jay Oliver
Subject: romero went down to dallas
Here's a little song we came
up with.. thought you might enjoy it.
Romero went down to Dallas
- by #balance
With apologies to the Charlie Daniels Band
Vision by Redfalcon
Lyrics by #balance
Romero went down to Dallas,
he was looking for some code to steal.
He was in a bind 'cause Daikatana was way behind and he was willing
to make a deal.
He came upon a young man hackin' at a game that wasn't too damn hot.
Romero jumped up on a hickory stump and said, "Boy, lemme tell
you what!"
"I guess you didn't know it, but I'm a game designer too"
"And if you care to take a dare, I'll make a bet with you"
"Now you design pretty good games, but give Romero his due"
"I'll bet pics of silicone against your code, cuz I think I'm better
than you"
The boy said, "My name's Carmack, and my game's worse than SiN"
"But I'll take that bet, you're gonna regret, 'cause yours is the
worst that's ever been"
Carmack, fire up your Cray
and port your code tenfold
'Cause hell's broke loose in Dallas, and Ion Storm's been sold
And if you win you'll get these pics of naked silicone
But if you lose, Romero gets your code
Romero opened up his case
and said, "I'll start this show"
And fire rose from his Voodoo5 as he hacked away at code
He added in the sound module and it made an evil hiss
Then his lackey Porter took control so the game was sure to miss
When Romero finished Carmack
said, "That's a piss poor hack old son."
"Now let me at
that keyboard, and I'll show you how it's done"
Fire up the laptop, run
code run
Ship it though it's buggy and not too fun
Where's the final build, we just don't know
Eidos, will the game ship? No child no
Romero bowed his head because
he knew he'd been beat
And laid the Killcreek Playboy at the ground by Carmack's feet
Then Sweeney ran them out of town, never to return again
"I done told you once you son of a bitch, UT's the best there ever
been!"
Fire up the laptop, run
code run
Ship it though it's buggy and not too fun
Just release and patches will make it fine
What the hell; No matter what, it can't be worse than Ultima 9!