Programmer Pops The Question on Girlfriend's Video Game

Hiding a ring in a bouquet just wasn't enough when a computer programmer Bernie Peng decided to pop the question.

Bernie reprogrammed girlfriend Tammy's favorite video game, "Bejeweled," so a ring and a marriage proposal would show up on the screen when she reached a certain score.

Li reached the needed score - and she said yes.

Bernie, who is a financial software programmer, says the reprogramming was a tricky task and took him a month.

"I thought it was pretty cool, in a nerdy way," Peng told The Star-Ledger of Newark.

The New Jersey couple plan to marry over Labor Day weekend, and PopCap, the Seattle company that makes "Bejeweled," will fly the couple to Seattle as part of their honeymoon.

"Most video game companies would frown on people manipulating their games," said Garth Chouteau, a spokesman for PopCap.

"But it won him a woman. As a bunch of geeks we have to say, 'Bernie, hats off to you.'"

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