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...infamous shirts, which come in baby tee and long-sleeved options ($15) in addition to the classic tee ($10), are snow white with sleek blue writing...
Andy Hanson, 24, is on a mission to break the most popular arcade game in America, a simulated golf match called Golden Tee. Over the next few months, he will spend days swinging at trees, walking into water hazards and bashing the game buttons as hard as he can, really trying to give the console a good whack...
...game's computer code. Then the game goes back to the testing department for further scrutiny, and the cycle repeats, often for months, until the game is bug free. "Testers are a special breed," says Richard Ditton, executive vice president of Incredible Technologies, the company that makes Golden Tee. "They somehow delight in breaking things." But he adds, "If they tell us not to ship a product...
Just one undetected bug in Golden Tee could cost the company as much as $100,000, the price of fixing the problem and sending an update from its headquarters in Arlington Heights, Ill., to game operators around the world. It's a frightening figure, Ditton says, when you consider the multitude of things that could go wrong with the programming, affecting everything from a game's 3-D images to its virtual sportscaster...
...Incredible Technologies, Hanson and his colleagues toil away in a dimly lighted room with charcoal gray carpeting, messing with the latest version of Golden Tee, due in 500 locales in November. Each tester has a code-melting specialty--simulating a drunken frat boy, for example--but all suggest that talent goes only so far when they're breaking games until sunrise. Admits Hanson: "You're just doing the same redundant thing, over and over again." Sounds par for the course...