“We’re going to have to have a press announcement. We’re going to have to apologize”.
On January 14th, 1999, members of the Tiger Woods ’99 team turned up to work at Electronic Arts’ Redwood studio and were confronted with some surprising news.
Reports had started circulating the office that somebody had called into a radio station in Tampa, Florida, claiming that they had found an unauthorized copy of the South Park short The Spirit of Christmas while searching through the files of the Tiger Woods PS1 game on their computer. The news understandably sent the studio into a bit of a spin, with many employees wondering how something like this could have happened and what the potential repercussions would be. After all, the game was rated E for everyone, and The Spirit of Christmas featured everything from swearing to child murder. The company had to act fast to get ahead of the news, so it decided to recall the offending discs and claim publicly that it would catch and punish those responsible for its inclusion.
Read the full article on timeextension.com
“We’re going to have to have a press announcement. We’re going to have to apologize”.
On January 14th, 1999, members of the Tiger Woods ’99 team turned up to work at Electronic Arts’ Redwood studio and were confronted with some surprising news.
Reports had started circulating the office that somebody had called into a radio station in Tampa, Florida, claiming that they had found an unauthorized copy of the South Park short The Spirit of Christmas while searching through the files of the Tiger Woods PS1 game on their computer. The news understandably sent the studio into a bit of a spin, with many employees wondering how something like this could have happened and what the potential repercussions would be. After all, the game was rated E for everyone, and The Spirit of Christmas featured everything from swearing to child murder. The company had to act fast to get ahead of the news, so it decided to recall the offending discs and claim publicly that it would catch and punish those responsible for its inclusion.
Read the full article on timeextension.com
