The legend of GoldenEye's gun names, including the Klobb
The following comments come from an EDGE interview with GoldenEye director/producer, Martin Hollis...
“We looked at the names of weapons on the market at the time. We found that some letters of the alphabet are found more regularly in gun names than others. Some letters sound more aggressive and these ones tend to be picked by manufacturers when naming products.
For example, we had the DD44 Dostovei, which was named after David Doak. The tradition even carried into follow-up Perfect Dark… But the Klobb was named after Ken Lobb, who was our Nintendo-side producer and contact.
I do slightly regret naming such a poor weapon after him, since I am tremendously fond of the man. He is astonishingly enthusiastic about games, even after years of working in the industry. It’s a little unfair that we named such a useless weapon after him. And for that I am sorry.”
Full interview here
“We looked at the names of weapons on the market at the time. We found that some letters of the alphabet are found more regularly in gun names than others. Some letters sound more aggressive and these ones tend to be picked by manufacturers when naming products.
For example, we had the DD44 Dostovei, which was named after David Doak. The tradition even carried into follow-up Perfect Dark… But the Klobb was named after Ken Lobb, who was our Nintendo-side producer and contact.
I do slightly regret naming such a poor weapon after him, since I am tremendously fond of the man. He is astonishingly enthusiastic about games, even after years of working in the industry. It’s a little unfair that we named such a useless weapon after him. And for that I am sorry.”
Full interview here
