The comments mention the developers wrote it in x86 assembly, but that it was later converted to C automatically, so maybe it lost any comments it had at that p

The comments mention the developers wrote it in x86 assembly, but that it was later converted to C automatically, so maybe it lost any comments it had at that point. Other commenters pointed out it was just a stripped down version of a Maxis game, so maybe the comments were stripped before selling it to Microsoft to make them more likely to hire the source company again for any more work. If the company was selling pin ball games to multiple companies using a shared code base, might make sense.