Strategy board games back in the 1970s and '80s, like "Blitzkrieg" and "War in Europe, " were simulation-type games requiring players to spend a lot of time rolling dice to resolve combat or find out differentgame stats -- weather conditions, civil unrest, troop rally points.
Ross Smith, the director of testing at Microsoft, translated the problem into agame where participant-teams from different regions within Microsoft competed to find bugs in their local languages.
Speed obliged from the spot and suddenly the game had adifferent complexion, with Nicolas Anelka a threat as he silkily began to find space behind the Spurs defence.