Ok, one story you'll only hear on HN. There was one notoriously very high payed engineer behind Battle.net. (I think they payed him $500k per year) Anyways, he loathed coming down to QA and intermingling with us minions. But one day he needed to come down and check out a bug in person. He pointed his arms like he needed to take a seat and look at the computer screen. He then pointed at me and without thinking I scurried to find him the nearest chair I could. But there was no such thing as a working chair on the QA floor. And as he sat down the entire chair collapsed and he fell back first on the floor. The QA manager gasped like I dropped the most expensive decorated egg in the world. But it was the most hilarious thing we've ever witnessed down there. After the incident he even stayed and played a round of X-Men vs StreetFighter so it was cool.

Another interesting story is that the engine came from an engineer at Nihilistic who made Descent, a PC pre-cursor to StarFox. It's just that it was never put to work as complicated before, Descent had just 4 perspectives and only a handful of models. WarCraft3 was another beast entirely.