The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.
The result was: promoted by Cwmhiraeth (talk) 06:07, 19 September 2021 (UTC)
... that Electronic Arts' makeshift Sega Genesisdevelopment kits interfered with television signals, allowing Andy Gavin to use white noise patterns on his dorm room's television as an aid for programming the video game Rings of Power? Source: "When you turned it on, all the TVs on the same electrical circuit started to spit and get a ton of noise on them. People would complain in my dorm about their reception. They didn’t put two and two together. But it was totally the Genesis screwing up all their TVs. You could tell, in someone else’s dorm room, even, what the Genesis was up to. When it crashed, the noise pattern would change. I could see how busy the graphics hardware was from the interference patterns. I would leave the TV across the room on because it was a useful debugging aid." ([1])
ALT1:... that the music of the video game Rings of Power was composed by a first-year medical student? Source: "Amiga programmer and musician Alexander Hinds, who is a first-year student at Stanford Medical School..." (Rings of Power instruction manual, inner cover)
Overall: @Cat's Tuxedo: I would somehow clarify the main hook to mention how the Genesis development was the source of the white noise, not the television itself. Once you do that, this can pass. - Favre1fan93 (talk) 17:27, 3 September 2021 (UTC)
@Cat's Tuxedo: I would somehow clarify the main hook to mention how the Genesis development was the source of the white noise, not the television itself. Once you do that, this can pass. - Favre1fan93 (talk) 17:27, 3 September 2021 (UTC)
Pass. - Favre1fan93 (talk) 17:52, 3 September 2021 (UTC)