You must remember that back in the days of the Dreamcast, there was no such thing as voice communication on games. If you wanted to hear someones voice, you had to phone them up, and that was pretty expensive. And if you didn’t have a mobile phone, it meant you’d need to disconnect the game from the dial up, just to use the phone.
So it was pretty fun seeing how many swear words you could come up with using symbols…
Fu(k
$hit
Sh!t
Sh17
(o(k
And so on and so forth… I think it might have been the start of the dreaded Leet Speak!
- Author
I love the cycloptic shifty eye.
It just looks really wacky.
-J.