Bungie Sightings

The Bungie Acronym Compendium

JNAMSTFY. DMUKYA. ABTFIPASO5. These cryptic identifiers have entertained, enightened, frustrated, and confounded Bungie fans since the early days in Chicago. Found on nearly every game and soundtrack created or licensed by Bungie, a surprising number of these enigmatic acronyms remain unsolved.

Acronym	Game	Solution	Confirmed by:
DMUKYA	Marathon	Don't Make Us Kick Your Ass
MBIBTYB	Marathon 2	My Bob Is Bigger Than Your Bob
TBWSAF	Marathon ∞ and Trilogy	Trick Bitch Whore Slut Ass Fucker	Alex Rosenberg
WACCSMD	Myth	Warcraft And Command & Conquer, Suck My Dick	Max Hoberman
MRTEFCFY	Myth Soundtrack
TATRTSTS	Myth II	Total Annihilation True Real Time Strategy Totally Sucks	Tuncer Deniz (below)
WUBNMH	Myth II Soundtrack	What's Up, Bitch? Not Much, Holmes	Matt Soell
SPMLOAS	Myth Total Codex
YYMMDBATC	Myth TC Soundtrack	Yummy, Yummy, Munchy, Munchy, Dwarven Bones Are Tasty Crunchy	Max Hoberman
ABTFIPASO5	Halo (GotY)
SABABWL	Halo Soundtrack
ILWNL	Halo PC
JNAMSFTFY	Halo 2
EGATFIBGBCSIMAW	Halo 2 Soundtrack Vol 1
MNNGSBTFS	Halo 2 Soundtrack Vol 1
IOHBOY	Halo 2 In-game map (Metropolis)
SIOHBOY	Halo 2 In-game credits
TOFTMTWCLMB	Halo 2 Multiplayer Map Pack
HAISTCWITDO	Halo 2 Soundtrack Vol 2

There have been tons of different guesses as to these on a variety of different forums all over the place, so if you see one you think you know the answer to, feel free to post a comment. Hopefully, someone at Bungie will step in periodically and let us know how we're doing.

Remember that, although some of them contain a little bit of good-natured profanity, they're not all strings of foul language. Many of them are catchphrases heard around the Bungie offices during development of the related game.

Note: It's pretty obvious that EGATFIBGBCSIMAW refers to the skulls (Envy, Grunt Birthday Party, Assassins, Thunderstorm, Famine, I Would Of Been Your Daddy, Blind, Ghost, Black, Catch, Sputnik, Iron, Mystic, Anger) but since no one from Bungie has ever stepped in with any observations on the elusive W at the end, and public opinion is hardly conclusive, it's pretty pointless to keep throwing guesses about it around. Maybe somebody in the know would care to tell us a story? ;-)

Update For the record, here are a few of the more widely-recognized guesses on some of the unsolved ones:

SPMLOAS: Single-Player Myth, Loads (or Lots) Of Additional Shit
ILWNL: I Like (or Love) Winning, Not Losing
IOHBOY: I'm Only Here Because Of You
SIOHBOY: Sid, I'm Only Here Because Of You

Anyone who can confirm or deny these is always welcome. :-) Posted by mnemesis at April 25, 2006 08:33 PM | TrackBack