Cheats in Current Games?
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Before the simple "No Clip" option, you used to have to type "IDSPISPOPD"
For some reason I can still remember that cheat so clearly...
Just wikipedia'd where that cheat acronym came from. Quite amusing:
Ok, just a quick recap for those of you new to this topic (the rest can just
skip right on by, nothing new here...)
DOOM had been out for a while. Some guy got on comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action
(the only group 'round for DOOM at that time) and posted about how he could
care less about DOOM, and would in fact like to put it in his kill file, but
didn't really want to as the word doom was quite common in the subject lines
of that newsgroup, even when people were not talking about the game, and he
did not want to miss those posts. He suggested (in jest) that ID name thier
next game something not quite so likely to be used in other headers, such as
oh say "Smashing Pumpkins Into Small Piles Of Putrid Debris". One can agree
that the acronym SPISPOPD was not very likely to be commonly used
Of
course, once the people on Usenet got ahold of this, it got quite out of hand.
Many different names were suggested for ID next game, and some guy evenwent
so far as to write an actual game called SPISPOPD. It was a top view game
remanicant of The Legend of Zelda (if anyone remember THAT old game). It
was actually not that bad, especially considering that he wrote it in, no
joke, less than 48 hours (he had a plane to catach). This topic became so
rampant that even ID became aware of it, and when the next version of DOOM
came out, they had renamed the no clipping cheat code to IDSPISPOPD (the ID
part is because ALL DOOM cheat codes start with the two letter string ID, like
all Duke Nukem ones start with DN). And that is the short (believe me, back
then MUCH more was written about it) version of the genesis of IDSPISPOPD.
Now you know.
For some reason I can still remember that cheat so clearly...
Just wikipedia'd where that cheat acronym came from. Quite amusing:
Ok, just a quick recap for those of you new to this topic (the rest can just
skip right on by, nothing new here...)
DOOM had been out for a while. Some guy got on comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action
(the only group 'round for DOOM at that time) and posted about how he could
care less about DOOM, and would in fact like to put it in his kill file, but
didn't really want to as the word doom was quite common in the subject lines
of that newsgroup, even when people were not talking about the game, and he
did not want to miss those posts. He suggested (in jest) that ID name thier
next game something not quite so likely to be used in other headers, such as
oh say "Smashing Pumpkins Into Small Piles Of Putrid Debris". One can agree
that the acronym SPISPOPD was not very likely to be commonly used
Of course, once the people on Usenet got ahold of this, it got quite out of hand.
Many different names were suggested for ID next game, and some guy evenwent
so far as to write an actual game called SPISPOPD. It was a top view game
remanicant of The Legend of Zelda (if anyone remember THAT old game
). It was actually not that bad, especially considering that he wrote it in, no
joke, less than 48 hours (he had a plane to catach
). This topic became so rampant that even ID became aware of it, and when the next version of DOOM
came out, they had renamed the no clipping cheat code to IDSPISPOPD (the ID
part is because ALL DOOM cheat codes start with the two letter string ID, like
all Duke Nukem ones start with DN). And that is the short (believe me, back
then MUCH more was written about it) version of the genesis of IDSPISPOPD.
Now you know.
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