Jag citerar min egen
kossor-i-flipper-sida:
Having cows appearing in pinball games started as an internal joke for the people at Williams/Bally.
The first game to include a cow was The Machine: Bride of Pinbot (see below) and the man responsible
was programmer Brian Eddy (designer of The Shadow, Attack From Mars and Medieval Madness).
This is his answer on why he did it:
"Why breathe? Why Eat? Why live without cows in pinball machines."
The story of the cow come in many different versions. This is the "truth about the cow" according to Mark Penacho:
"The cow in Fire (gravy) had nothing to do with the cows that appeared all
over later on. One person (who shall remain nameless, BRE) started putting
cows in the games he worked on, and eventually people started
copying (there's also cow stuff all over his house). It kind of got out
of hand after that. The fact that one person at the time (SS) did all the
dot matrix effects for all games did nothing to curb that trend. I did
hear at one time that the Sega people assumed this was some kind of jab at
pinball designer Joe Kaminkow (which it wasn't, talk about vanity)."
Så även om det förekommer en ko i spelet Fire från -87 så var The Machine:BOP först med en kossa som internskämt.
I Fire hörde det ju liksom till temat.