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Speedy Eggbert is the renamed (rebranded) version of Speedy Blupi released by eGames company.

The text Blupi was replaced by Eggbert, although somewhere the text Blupi still exists.

There are almost no differences between Speedy Blupi and Speedy Eggbert.

See: Comparison of Speedy Blupi (Windows) and Speedy Eggbert (Windows)

Trademark

"Speedy Eggbert" was a registered trademark by the eGames company, but it expired on 27th April 2012.

Review in PC Gamer magazine

Speedy Eggbert was reviewed in the PC Gamer magazine and scored 4% ^[1]

Old coverdiscs (maybe pre-DVD) had a "review archive".

Why was Blupi replaced by Eggbert

tytbone Dec 17, 2017
Was Blupi changed to Eggbert for the eGames-published versions so that Epsitec retained the full legal rights to the Blupi name, or something like that?
Blupi Dec 20, 2017

BlupiGames Replying to @tytbone and @epsitec
AFAIK, Epsitec SA retains the rights to the Blupi name. But I'm just a developer, only @epsitec knows exactly the answer of this question.
Pierre Arnaud
@epsitec

Pierre Arnaud 8:15 PM · Dec 22, 2017
eGames didn’t like the name Blupi and thought that Eggbert would be a better choice for the US market. And yes, Epsitec SA is indeed the owner of the name Blupi

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Spyware

CD-ROM discs by eGames contain spyware named "timesink". ^[3]^[4]^[5]

"timesink" should not be harmful, especially on a modern pc, but can be annoying (maybe the high usage CPU and RAM).

Spyware may be trying to contact a server, which now no more exists.

The goal of this spyware is to deliver advertisements on the infected computer.

"timesink" creates some files on the computer, where it is installed.

References

[1] ttps://www.rockpapershotgun.com/speedy-eggberts-level-editor-made-it-the-best-game-to-ever-score-4

[2] ttps://x.com/epsitec/status/944285372128944128

[3] ttps://web.archive.org/web/20151130214547/https://spywaresignatures.com/details/?spyware=timesink

[4] ttps://www.computerworld.com/article/1366428/egames-settles-with-michigan-to-remove-ad-software.html

[5] ttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EGames_(video_game_developer)#Bundled_adware

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 == Trademark ==