Who is Dallas?

[cff]

Originally posted by Wedge009

I believe Origin is based in Austin, Texas. Apparently, they like to knock Dallas for some reason.

Dallas also was an Origin employee IIRC (Marketing or PR me thinks)

 

[TC]

Dallas Snell, Vice President of New Technologies.

 

[dacis2]

ouch

umm, what kind of "new tech"?

 

[Bandit LOAF]

This was circa 1991... so, like, 256 color graphics and polygons and speech and stuff.

 

[Delance]

Originally posted by dacis2
ouch

umm, what kind of "new tech"?

Advanced mind-control. People are still taking about a 1991 game, aren't they?

 

[Ijuin]

Originally posted by Delance
Advanced mind-control. People are still taking about a 1991 game, aren't they?

ROFL!

 

[AD]

Figured this was a perfect thread to ressurect. I was searching for Dallas' real name since I didn't find any mention of it on the CIC front page doing a news search. I also came up blank searching WCPedia.

Anyway, another fun tidbit here: The last line on the plaque is Rich "T Dog" Strobers, which is clearly a lazy anagram of Chris Roberts. Rich is Chris minus the S and Strobers has the extra S from Chris, and moves it's T forward. I'm not sure I get the T Dog reference, but I'm sure there's a story behind it.

Bing Gordon was an EA exec. Here's a recent article about him. I guess it's telling that the Prophecy team killed him off too.

 

[capi3101]

"T Dog" - if I were to guess, is probably just not as obvious as "Top Dog". Just a supposition, but it makes sense.