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McLees's involvement marks a transition from private use of "blam" by Bungie staff members to a bona fide meme. Starting in 1995, cryptic instances of "blam" were injected into Bungie's games, manuals and promotional material. This caused much speculation in the community, especially after "Blam!" was picked as a codename for Halo, with Bungie going as far as to register the blam.net, blam.org and blam.com domains. See [https://marathon.bungie.org/story/blam.html HERE] for the most complete overview of "blam sightings" assembled in 1998-2000 amidst the Halo hype. | McLees's involvement marks a transition from private use of "blam" by Bungie staff members to a bona fide meme. Starting in 1995, cryptic instances of "blam" were injected into Bungie's games, manuals and promotional material. This caused much speculation in the community, especially after "Blam!" was picked as a codename for Halo, with Bungie going as far as to register the blam.net, blam.org and blam.com domains. See [https://marathon.bungie.org/story/blam.html HERE] for the most complete overview of "blam sightings" assembled in 1998-2000 amidst the Halo hype. | ||
The most prominent in-game occurrence of "Blam!" before Oni is probably in Myth II's | The most prominent in-game occurrence of "Blam!" before Oni is probably in Myth II's level "Stair of Grief", where it is shouted by grenade-happy dwarves. | ||
==In Oni== | ==In Oni== | ||