The Ultimate Software Gold Plating

I would just like to say, as someone with fairly large hands, I found the Jaguar controller to be one of the most comfortable console controllers I’ve ever used.

Also, how many others here have actually gotten past level 64 of Tempest 2000 on the Jaguar without cheating? I did it once, and it took me an entire weekend of trying.

Reading through the posts under this article I think there are blinding discrepancies of what exactly gold coating is… as a matter of fact I’m not entirely sure I know what Gold coated code is since in my history it has carried a negative connotation.

What a shame… Gold is so pretty.

Here’s a quick survey answers I got asking a few of the people I know:

frightening…

I think I like Andrew Stellman’s take on it
http://www.stellman-greene.com/2007/06/09/why-gold-plating-is-a-lousy-name/#comments