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Re:How Naughty Dog Fit Crash Bandicoot into 2MB of RAM on th... by danso on Thursday June 18, 2015 @06:59AM (#9737786)
I don't know if Dave Baggett's heroic essay (well, as heroic as a game debugging essay can be), "My Hardest Bug Ever" is part of those blogposts, but it's one of the things I now mentally associate with the legacy of Crash Bandicoot (which apparently involved all manners of engineering feats):

http://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/DaveBaggett/20131031/203788/M...

HN discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6654905 (with participation from the author, dmbaggett https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=dmbaggett)

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Re:How Naughty Dog Fit Crash Bandicoot into 2MB of RAM on th... by wooderson on Friday June 19, 2015 @12:34AM (#9743018)
Why don't to actually link to the original Quora answer where the gamasutra post was lifted from?
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Re:How Naughty Dog Fit Crash Bandicoot into 2MB of RAM on th... by danso on Friday June 19, 2015 @01:35AM (#9743162)
Just to be clear...the "Dave Baggett" who authored the Quora post seems to be the same "Dave Baggett" who is listed as the author of the Gamasutra post. Usually the phrase "lifted from" implies an act of plagiarism, but I think in this case, the two authors are one and the same.

As to why I didn't link to the Quora answer? Because not everyone on HN has a Quora account. And in the past, Quora has sometimes erected a login-wall for non-users trying to view a post. Gamasutra does not.

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