- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
Well, I read that whole Bungie name origin thing, with some hard research (I used something other than Google!!! Holy crap), I found the tru7h. That's right, thee truth. You want it? Well, here it is then. (Sry if this is just old news)((and don't ban me for it, just erase the post if it's too much... you can do that!)
"I guess now, after all this time, the tru7h can be told. One night during a Macworld convention, we were celebrating a day of frenzied sales in the hotel bar. Alex had had a bit to drink, and was uncharacteristically moody. He had been staring into the distance while the rest of us talked, then suddenly sobbed, and this confession spilled out. It seems that he had had a previous game company, Gnoptics, and a different partner, Patrick "Bungee Boi" O'Flanagan, a devotee of elastic-based sports, and they were like brothers. Patrick was a good guy, but stubborn, and was adamant that they remain a Mac-only developer, eschewing the fame and riches in making games for the PC or consoles. Months of bitter argument failed to sway Patrick from this position, and in the end, Alex had no choice but to kill him. Strangled him with his bare hands. Alex was decisive like that. It bothered him though, and to assuage his guilt, he attempted to name his next company after Patrick. Like most journalists, he misspelled the name."
Straight from good 'ol Bungie.net