I imagine they made these games mostly for themselves and didnt have to explain to family why they were called Booby Master.

  • sleepydragn1@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 months ago

    This might be less funny than it first appears, since companies often had a policy where developers were required to be listed under pseudonyms or worse, go completely uncredited.

    No idea if that’s the case here, but it’s plausible “Booby Master” was basically a form of protest, or at least making a joke out of a bad situation.

      • sigmaklimgrindset@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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        2 months ago

        Variety of reasons I believe: anti-poaching, preferring to go by their gamer tag, not really industry standard at the time (Yoko Shimomura for example did a lot of iconic early Capcom stuff but it was credited as “Capcom Music Team”), gaming seen as a “lesser” industry so people didn’t want to be associated with it, corporate egos, anti-doxxing (yes, even back in the day. Gaming was a small industry). It really depends on the country/company etc.

        It’s actually gotten to a point where certain older games getting ported are actually entirely credited to the porting team rather than the OG creators. I know the Metroid ports had their OG creator credits removed (not sure if they were patched back in or not), and it was a minor kerfuffle. It’s a topic discussed in game preservation spaces with some frequency.