Was ich nicht wusste: Dieser Cheat-Code hatte eine Geschichte!

S.P.I.P.O.P.D. stands for Smashing Pumpkins Into Small Piles Of Putrid Debris. This whole thing got startted in late 1993 in the Usenet newsgroup comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action when anticipation for the as yet to be relased game DOOM had reached a fever pitch.

At 11:06 AM PST, on November 30, 1993, Eli Bingham posted a message stating that there wouldn’t be this insesant “DOOM” mania if id Software had given their game an unwieldy name like Smashing Pumpkins Into Small Piles Of Putrid Debris. Within hours this was contracted to SPISPOPD and all hell broke loose.

comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action was soon flooded with ever increasingly wild posts about this fictional game, much to the aggravation of those who had complained about all the DOOM posts.

Taking the bull by the nose Seth Cohn created the Official SPISPOPD FAQ and a small legend was born. When DOOM finally did come out SPISPOPD was almost forgotten, but that’s another story.

Dave Taylor of id Software caught wind of the SPISPOPD madness (see “Dave Taylor” button to the left) and added the cheat code “idspispopd” to DOOM (renamed “idclip” in DOOM 2).

Quelle: www.trilobite.org

Leider wurde der Code in Doom 2 durch idclip ersetzt. Trotzdem konnte ich mich nach all der Zeit noch daran erinnern. Wenn das nur bei mehr Dingen so wäre…

Der Vollständigkeit halber noch ein paar weitere Codes:

iddqd              God-Mode
idkfa               Alle Waffen inkl. Munition, alle Key-Cards
idchoppers    Gibt einem die Kettensäge
iddt                Deckt die Karte auf