Jetpac... what does its name mean?

Following the other threads... :)

Why is it Jetpac and not Jet Pack?

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  • Why backpack and not back pack? Since language tends to simplify commonly used terms, I suppose 'jetpac' is futuristic.
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  • This one is obvious. It should have been Jetpack, but the artist designing the loading screen ran out of space and had to leave the K off.

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  • This one is obvious. It should have been Jetpack, but the artist designing the loading screen ran out of space and had to leave the K off.

    Quite possible :) This yellow border around the logo looks actually quite crap, below the general picture quality and added at the last moment
  • Never ever noticed or considered this at all.
    A nod to Pacman perhaps?
  • Ultimate made quite a habit of spelling their games in unusual ways, Jetpac, Pssst, Atic Atac, Sabre Wulf, Underwurlde, for example. May be they considered it a brand thing. There seemed to be a lot of this going on elsewhere too, sometimes to avoid copyright (Pheenix).
  • Perhaps they were dyslexic ;)
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  • Ultimate made quite a habit of spelling their games in unusual ways, Jetpac, Pssst,

    And how do you spell Pssst in a proper way? ;)
  • edited September 2016
    Ralf wrote: »
    Ultimate made quite a habit of spelling their games in unusual ways, Jetpac, Pssst,

    And how do you spell Pssst in a proper way? ;)
    ****

    Obviously!!!

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  • grey key wrote: »
    Perhaps they were dsylxeic ;)

    FFTY.
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  • SkoolKid wrote: »
    grey key wrote: »
    Perhaps they were dsylxeic ;)

    FFTY.
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  • SteveP wrote: »
    Ultimate made quite a habit of spelling their games in unusual ways, Jetpac, Pssst, Atic Atac, Sabre Wulf, Underwurlde, for example. May be they considered it a brand thing. There seemed to be a lot of this going on elsewhere too, sometimes to avoid copyright (Pheenix).

    Possibly a trademarking thing, it's a lot more difficult to argue a trademark on a common word (though not impossible, e.g. Apple) but a deliberate misspelling like Jetpac is easy to enforce.
  • edited September 2016
    SkoolKid wrote: »
    grey key wrote: »
    Perhaps they were dsylxeic ;)

    FFTY.

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    Post edited by grey key on
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  • edited September 2016
    All this reminds me of a joke I heard some time ago:

    THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF CHRISTMAS WISH YOU HAPPY DYSLEXICS

    *gets runs and coat*
    Post edited by JuanF. Ramirez on
  • All this reminds me of a joke I heard some time ago:

    THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF CHRISTMAS WISH YOU HAPPY DYSLEXICS

    *gets runs and coat*

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  • All this reminds me of a joke I heard some time ago:

    THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF CHRISTMAS WISH YOU HAPPY DYSLEXICS

    *gets runs and coat*

    And the national association of dyslexics hopes that satan comes down your chimney with much slaughter.
  • Have you also noticed, the game being an early one, they have left a black line midway on the picture in order to display the 'loading' message in black on black.
    Sod it!

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  • "ADIS don't die of Dyslexia"
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  • MatGubbins wrote: »
    "ADIS don't die of Dyslexia"
    anagram dailysex

    Nah it was a spoof ad in Viz, you may have been able to buy a T-Shirt with it on as well.

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  • ...but there's one thing, that no-one knows..

    WHERE DID THE 'K' GO?
  • It's disappeared from ATIC ATAC too.
    ...I guess we just have to appreciate that we don't have an IGHT LORE game. ;) :D
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  • Surely that would be Night Lore, unless it's a game about flying kites?

    Although tbh that may have been more entertaining than Knightlore? But who knows? :))
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