Path: chuka.playstation.co.uk!scea!peter_alau@playstation.sony.com From: Darco Newsgroups: scee.yaroze.freetalk.english Subject: Re: Eclipse Software Date: Tue, 02 Nov 1999 22:32:00 -0500 Organization: SCEA News Server Lines: 24 Message-ID: <381FACB0.A7DC7C96@surfsouth.com> References: <381CB6FB.32B74E63@netcomuk.co.uk> <1e0kb4u.19li2vkv7n8tgN@a1-88-114.a1.nl> <7virab$a6n6@chuka.playstation.co.uk> <1e0l3ik.4dy8xer3h0wN@[194.151.88.144]> Reply-To: darco@bigfoot.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 01-vald-00f.dial.optilinkcomm.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.61 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: en DEnnis Brinkhuis wrote: > > It's always nice to hear where a name came from. But it appears that the > game-industrie has a lot of "bull-shit" names. Team Parc is not the most > serious name in the world, and the only real question I asked Peter > Molyneux in the pub was where the names Bullfrog and Lionhead came from. > Well, Lionhead (or was that BullFrog?) is the name of the ginnypig of > one of the employers!!! > > A good explenation in your case could be "the year in witch the group > was formed was a year with a total eclipse" or "Eclipse is a rearly and > mysterious happening, just like your team".. > > Yeah right ;-) > "voria", from Voria Gameworks, was just a non-sense word that me and my friend dusty made up when we were brainstorming for a name of a coding group. Later on out of curosity, I did a web search for "voria" and I found out the Voria rurialias was the larval parasite of the cabage loper. Go figure. 'darco