- CrazzySnipe55
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- Fabled Legendary Member
There were going to be six columns, you see. Bungie was going to have an affinity with the number six. At first, Bungie was a cult. They worshiped the devil whenever they could, and sometimes when they couldn't. They denounced anything holy and bathed in the blood of virgins. They couldn't get enough Satan.
But, one day, while working on the cult's first propaganda game "Satan is Amazing; -blam!- Everyone" in which the Devil jumps up and down while bouncing a ball of fire off of a human who is also jumping up and down, their computers crashed. All of them. At first, they took this as a sign from their underworld overlord (a bit of an ironic title), and began unpraying immediately. When that didn't work, and they realized that their game was due to be reviewed by Apple in only a day, they had to do a very quick remake of the game.
In this new version, the Devil and the human were replaced with black bars and the ball of fire was turned into a black box. They didn't have time for detail. They noticed their game had turned into something very close to pong. Not wanting to seem like this was an accident, they called it "Gnop!" to make it look quirky and purposefully and shamelessly ripped off. After that, they realized that the studio heads were not very much into satanic games about fire and sin, and were more into this cutesy -blam!- that would get mass attention. Thus, they began making said cutesy -blam!-. (Though considered having a triumphant comeback for Halo 3 by making Master Chief get a message from the Devil to go bring Hell onto Earth, as it were, by exterminating the human race... it was shot down at a board meeting eventually.)
Thus, the 6th column was replaced with the 7th (which is related to good luck, which is more publicly applauded than Satan).