Zub

[goodboy]

Игра, видимо, планировалась называться не ZUB, а ZOB. Об этом свидетельствует спрайт в самой игре. Из ситуации (когда игру пришлось, по неведомым причинам, переименовать) вышли похабно - верх буквы О закрасили черными атрибутами

What's the story behind 'Zub' originally being called 'Zob'?

John originally called the game Zob, and that was its title all the way through development, up until we were ready to master the game. I think the word came from an episode of Blackadder or something like that, but it was chosen just because it sounded funny.

As we were finishing up Andy Hieke (the boss of Binary) got an angry phone call from Ron Harris (I think, someone high up at Mastertronic anyway). He'd been in a meeting with the French distributors showing them his list of titles for the next quarter, and they were all outraged by this title Zob. I turns out that its French slang for a penis !

Ho ho, we laughed for about two minutes, then we realised that we had to somehow change the title of this finished game in about an hour before it was sent to the duplicators. Zub was the easiest to change it to. I think on one of the title screens, maybe spectrum, the top of the 'o' was just masked out with a black attribute to make the 'u'.