We all know how juvenile my sense of humour can be. I am the lowest of the low and the dirtiest of the dirty. A filth hound in every sense of the word.
Every time I’m browsing in Argos I come across this video game and I can’t get past the name of it. Part of me doesn’t believe it’s a real product. Take a gander:
I have watched the trailer so it is a genuine thing and not made up. You can buy this thing, you can play this thing and it’s a thing of yours. Why then does it have such a debaucherously filthy name?
It’s a game where you play a thief who has to steal stuff. You are Robbie Swifthand and you’re out to steal the Orb of Mysterious. If you separated the two they could equally be the title. Put together they sound like a bad joke from the internet.
It’s an allegory for wanking and fondling balls. I’m sorry but it is. Everything about it stinks of mischievousness as though the developers knew exactly what they were doing and were excited to put something out on modern consoles that would make Frankie Howerd titter.
I know that what is going to happen next is that the two of you, or Chris as it may be, will say that I’m out of my mind and that nobody else would come to the same conclusion. So go on then, I have left myself open to berating and await it gladly.
11 comments on “What the deuce?”
Had it been called “Robbie Swifthand and the orbS of Mystery” then I’d have been right there with you waving the flag of double-entendre.
But its not. So I shall call you a silly person and be on my way.
If it’s about wanking, why is Robbie Swifthand stealing one orb? He ought to be repeatedly and rhythmically going up and down a fireman’s pole immediately above two mysterious orbs. If he was doing that it would be a wanking game, no doubt about it. But as it stands I think its wank credentials are fairly flimsy.
Okay, if it was just called ‘Robbie Swifthand’ would you agree that it sounded as though it was a game about wanking?
My honest answer is that it would never have occurred to me. I don’t think “swifthand” sounds particularly wanky.
Nah, its more stealy than wanky.
Yes. A pickpocket called Johnny Swifthand would work. They should market that as a sequel.
What about ‘Jimmy Fondlenuts’?
(what about Jimmy Fondlenuts?)
Sounds like a bad joke is on the horizon…
Jimmy Fondlenuts sounds like a frottage-based game and not necessarily a direct hit on the wanking front. You want to call it something like “Hank Shaftpumper and the Sock of Shame”.
“Hank Shaftpumper and the Sock of Shame”.
I need to start coding videogames.
Also, potential autobiography title?
For you, definitely. For me, no.