Tass Times in Tone Town
Written by Michael Berlyn and Muffy McClung Berlyn and programmed by Rebecca Heineman
Developed by Interplay and Brainwave Creations
Published by Activision
1986
"Game designer Michael Berlyn gives the following source for the word
Muffy and I were employed there [at Harvard], teaching creative writing. And the motto of Harvard is 'Veritas,' which means 'truth.' We took to saying 'very tass' to mean, 'very true,' or 'too true.' Our students picked it up and started applying it to something that was cool. So very tass turned into very hip or cool."
Could this be the etymology of tass as it is used in White Wolf's World of Darkness setting? "A physical store of the primeval stuff of reality" feels, well, like a very tass substance indeed.
