SABLE and BOUF
 

Some of the JJ1 cheats are names of games, CSTRIKE and DOOM and HOCUS. Some are names of developers, ARJAN and MARK and TIM. Some are more or less English, CHECK and GREETZ and GUNHED and HOOKER and LAMER . BAD is fairly close to "bird," and KEN is probably Ken Silverman. So... SABLE? BOUF? I don't understand.

(Apparently sable is Spanish for "saber," which I guess is conceptually speed-adjacent, and bouf is French for "beef," which might refer to beefing you up. But neither explanation quite convinces me.)

Hmm. Bouf was a name of one of the characters in Dare to Dream.
http://youtu.be/fyo22H2Liuk?t=2m28s

And Sable is a rabbit breed.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Sable

But I'm not sure if the rabbit breed is what they are referring to.

Sabre teeth are actually a North American ice age mammalian evolution where the canine teeth were curved and elongated. I think all sabre tooth genes are extinct by now, though.

How does this affect jackrabbits? Probably doesn't, American tigers had sabre teeth. No more tigers in North America anyway. Sabre tooth tigers are long gone.

I figure those cats were extracting water from ice then and there. When the ice age ended, there was no need to scrape ice with the canines.

I believe we have an ice age now at UConn and I actually have been scraping ice with my canine teeth, which is ridiculous but true.

I'm no scientist but freezing your teeth would naturally expand them and melting ice with your canines would curve them and elongate them as ice water drips.

Furthermore, a sabre is a type of sword with no edge that was used to clear paths through the jungle.

What's more, sabre teeth can be used to warm up the air above your feet. You just have to point your canine teeth at the floor, and breathe out hot air if it's freezing cold where you're walking.

Leaving them constantly extended from the jaw will work as a form of evaporative heating.

Your mouth will automatically heat your sabre teeth, which will thereby heat the air in front of your face, actually probably by melting floating ice-water particles in a frozen room/house/shelter, frozen cave or igloo.

Long story short, to use sabre teeth like a large cat, hydroplane on ice with your canine teeth to hunt for green wild grass.

Well, how dazzling Splat's post may be, spelling 'Sabre' could refer to Sabre Team which was an Amiga/DOS strategy game at the time. Who knows.

However, I deem Hare's rabbit breed theory more likely to be true. :p

Gunhed is also a game title.

(Violet, Counter-Strike didn't exist in 1994)

so what you're saying is they took the name from JJ1

wasn't there another game that starts with 'C' and ends with 'Strike'? unfortunately it's kind of hard to google this

Darn.
[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/7pJgjwX.png[/IMG]

Are you thinking of Strike Commander? That would make some sense, being a DOS game where you fly.

TIL

so, did that search prove useful? doesn't look like it. see, it's not that I can't write, but getting any RESULTS is the problem
yeah, I was thinking of this one, vaguely. but why not STRIKEC then? weird

Not really, that's why I typed "Darn" above the pic...

Why not attemp to ask any of the programmers of JJ1 on Twitter? Ugh, too bad I missed the 90's.

Apparently "sable" is the fourth name in JJ2's high scores list, after arjan, michiel, and cliffy. So I think it may actually be a person who worked at Epic... possibly on the testing team?

Or rabbit breed theory. Though possibly this may be true as well.

Any idea where I can find full cheat list for JJ1? I only know about the infamous apology mode one, which doesn't work with my copy of the game.

Does the ''Urban Dictionary: Bouf'' search on Google mean something?
Sorry for the unseriousness but hey, it's just as possible as any theory here.

I would post all of the meanings of bouf here, but I know it's not really appropriate for these forums.