https://atariage.com/software_page.php?SoftwareLabelID=855 https://www.arcade-history.com/index.php?page=person&name=Ga...
> Aquaventure has never been spotted on internal Atari memos or status reports from the early 80s, so it has been a challenge to determine who was responsible for programming the game. For many years it was assumed that programmer Gary Shannon wrote Aquaventure during his short tenure at Atari. I first credited Gary, along with developer Tod Frye, with the development in my article about Aquaventure on atariprotos.com in 2008.
From Gary themself:
> “I had just come to Atari from Sega (coin op "Gremlin-branded" games) and was very new to the 2600, so I was definitely not the lead programmer and did mostly grunt work behind the scenes. After that I worked for a few weeks on another failed 2600 game, Miss Piggy's Wedding, which never got off the launching pad at all.”
Conclusion:
> while Tod Frye may have programmed the kernel for the Aquaventure, and Gary Shannon did minor updates to an already existing code base, the identity of the original programmer who was responsible for the majority of the code remains unknown.
Another masterpiece lost to time.
I heard it was someone named Satoshi Nakamoto
1. They don't get it.
2. They consider it off-topic.
3. They missed the whole era when the internet was fun and interesting.
4. They mistakenly believe that it's against HN rules.
5. They fret about people in different cultures not understanding one another's jokes, so they try to vote the jokes into oblivion, rather than understanding that being exposed to the humor of other cultures is one way to learn about other cultures.
6. They're just grumps who find no joy in anything, and nobody else is allowed to enjoy things. See also: "Stop liking things I don't like!"
As for your comment being downvoted, it's considered bad form to comment on downvoting, so yours is doing down, as is mine. But I just don't care.
I don't think reading cryptocurrency jokes posted on HN is the best way to expose yourself to other cultures.
In general, I think comments with jokes in them get a harder time, as the community doesn't want HN to go the same way as Reddit did, which is basically filled with low-effort jokes nowadays.