Yes the name XBOX is short for DirectXBOX and the glowing green X used to be a radiation symbol logo for the Microsoft skunkworks project code named “Manhattan” to develop DirectX. An extra leg was added to the radiation symbol to make it PC…

The Saint travels with Bill Gates to Japan where he, once again, botches a BillG intro…

If the previous day in Kyoto had been a rough one for James Spahn our final day was to be the longest for Stuart Moulder.  Stuart, who I …

To celebrate the successful launch of DirectX in Japan, James Spahn arranged to take the entire team via one of Japans famous bullet trains to the …

The Saint discovers “Stage fright” at the launch of DirectX in Japan

If the Japanese hadn’t invented a derogatory term for obnoxious Western Barbarians prior to our arrival in Japan, they almost certainly would have invented the term gaijin exclusively for us.

SEGA! pt. 2 This SHOULD be a short boring Talisman story but it needs to be told for the sake of completeness.  Immediately after doing …

I get a certain number of folks asking me why I don’t tell these stories chronologically.  The answer is that there were so many different things taking …