Quick Look: Rock Boshers DX: Director's Cut

Cheese in oatmeal. http://www.seriouseats.com/talk/2011/09/cheese-in-my-oatmeal.html

Also, the fact that Dan considers aged cheddar to be fancy cheese made me chuckle. I'm also under the impression that smoked gouda does improve almost anything.

This looks and sounds really great.

It would be cool to see more 80s-styled humans this side of the 80s too.

Not so much. Scones are scones. Biscuits are the treats we feed dogs (with the exception of biscuits and gravy, where the definition changes), though I only speak for those of us out west.

I knew nothing about this title until I watched the Quick Look - then immediately bought/downloaded the game afterwards - being nearly 40 I grew up with a C64 and had friends with Spectrums, so this pushed all the right buttons straight away - the screeching loading screen, TURBOLOAD! (which did exist), cyan and magenta colour clash. The whole bit.

It is a genuinely great little game, with lots of humour and style pulled from its relatively simple looks. The whole charm of the old C64/ZX games was that even though your sprite was sometimes a jumble of 4 or 5 pixels with two frames of animation, your imagination filled in the rest and so you decided how the characters appeared, what the environments looked liked - something that has, for good or bad, been lost over the years.

But make no mistake, despite the apparent simplicity the later levels are fiendishly hard with a few good puzzle elements thrown in that make you think about how to proceed and make your escape. For the money, everyone should at least give it a try. I hope the developers go on to make more games like it.

So yeah, thanks to Jeff (and Dan) for making me aware of this - a genuine surprise and a very enjoyable game.

Goddam that was good menu music

Absolutely adore the style. Darwinia did an intro where it pretended it was booting into a ZX Spectrum and this game does it just as well. Think I have to get this. Loading a game on a Spectrum is a singular experience.

A Spectrum loading screen on Giant Bomb. Today is beautiful.

As soon as I saw the loading screen I had to buy this. My Speccy 128 has long since gone (sold it to part buy an Atari ST) but I've got my ZX81 somewhere.

So, I get that perhaps scones are not a large part of the American diet (even as an Australian they're not a large part of mine) but do they really not know what they are? The world is a frightening place.

(Scones are served with jam, but Jammy Scone is a dumb thing for anyone to say.)

(I'm not sure if my favourite cheese is a soft brie or a baked ricotta) (nacho cheese is not made of cheese)

As neat as this game looks, it seems like it might be pretty low on content at what seems to be 24 fairly short main stages and some minigames. While decent checkpointing is normally something I approve of, I think this game would have benefited from having a bit more carry-over between areas, such as by presenting the stages in sets of 3 or 4 in order to still have some checkpointing while raising the stakes a bit.

Maybe the later areas just get significantly longer and more involved though.

Dan should try a cheese scone someday.

I never had a ZX, not even sure if they were a big thing here in Sweden, where the C64 became dominant fairly early on in the 80's. But even then, the loading screen alone sold me on this game.

We did have that kind of subscription service Dan mentioned though, there was the Swedish PC Club which had a subscription service for shareware compilation disks and stuff. Like Jeff said, the stuff on those compilations were generally not exactly the best stuff of the shareware era, and you could buy shareware versions(!) of more popular games like the Apogee catalog for way more than they should've been. The PC club charged like $10 for a shareware copy of Secret Agent, which would've been $25 to buy as the full version directly from Apogee (had it not been overly complicated to send payments and import games from across the world back then).

That title screen beat is HOT!

NO MORE retro games! This shit is getting old.....(get it?)

The begining of this game may be worse than the Futurama frog

This was interesting to watch.

Jamie Scone

Is this the 48k or 128k version? :)

Everyone in this comments section referring to a Spectrum as a "Speccy": are you the same assholes who refer to Nintendo as "Ninty"?

Also:

Dan: "Is this fun?"

Jeff deflects the question instead of saying "No, not really."

Probably the same deviants that say "snesss" instead of ES-EN-EE-ES

@humanity: Truly, they are history's greatest monsters.

British porn star?

AHEM!

It's been referred to as 'Speccy' by a large section of its UK users since it was originally released. Even the printed Spectrum magazines of the day referred to it as such. It's a term that's very dear to the users of that system at the time (me included). One of those situations where you had to be there. I'll thank you both for not being so inaccurately uppity about it! :P

There was I think 8 different models of Spectrum, so Speccy became more of an umbrella term.

Using the above comparison, it would be about similar to me criticising a person for saying Pee Ess Two instead of using it's full name. At this point it's so ingrained in the majority of the userbase that it's pointless to fight it.

If you played Spectrum in the day, and didn't call it Speccy, you were doing it wrong!

@drockus: Guess it must be a regional thing in the US then. I just Google image'd 'US biscuits' and was bombarded with scones. Scones scones scones as far as the eye could see... And puppies, for some reason :S

@tehpickle: Scones are triangle and sweet here in the US.

Can't say I've ever encountered a triangle scone and I've been from coast to coast.

Also, it's English.

Love that menu music

Never been to the UK but I have had many scones? They're not remotely rare.

Anyway, this is a scone:

and this is a biscuit:

Though on the topic of British English, some of the stuff said in this game seems...a bit much. Seems more like parody rather than tribute at times.

@dan_citi: Those are both wrong. A biscuit is what the US would call a cookie. The name actually has a derivative meaning coming from the French "cooked twice" which is how proper "cookies" are made.

This is a scone:

This is a biscuit:

@hiscores said:

@dan_citi: Those are both wrong. A biscuit is what the US would call a cookie. The name actually has a derivative meaning coming from the French "cooked twice" which is how proper "cookies" are made.

This is a scone:

This is a biscuit:

This is disgusting.

This is a cookie:

I guess that second one is also a cookie? Goya makes those that I know of, but they're not the common cookie.

This Ritz cracker is reminiscent of your...biscuit (yuck...wtf) as well:

yeah but that "scone" is like an English Muffin...you have them for breakfast.

Anyway I'm with y'all on football.

This game looks straight up like a budget game by Atlantis. I'd probably buy it on tape thirty years ago.

this music though

HELLA EPILEPSY WARNING! ALSO! HELLA MIGRAINE WARNING!

@benmo316: It's a toad, not a frog. Obey Hypno-Toad.

Beginning of this game is fucking horrible.

That loading screen reminded me so much of Ultimate Play the Game.

Dan's adventures in love and cheese are endlessly fascinating.

Jeff and Dan have a great chemistry together. Their banter really plays off of each other well and the conversations flow well and can be pretty funny.

These are the same degenerates who call Resident Evil "rezzy" so I expect this sort of thing at this point.