Handsome Egg-Shaped Fellow Named Blupi

Part of the reason this blog exists is so I can infect the minds of my readers with knowledge of all the obscure video games I happened to play as a child, and today I want to tell you about a handsome yellow egg-shaped fellow named Blupi (pronounced Blue-Pea). To me and my siblings, Blupi was just as important and ubiquitous as Sonic the Hedgehog — after all, we had multiple games featuring him, most notably Speedy Blupi and Speedy Blupi II. (What a delightful egg. Image credit The Cutting Room Floor) Blupi is also sometimes known as Eggbert. I guess eGames, the US publishers of Speedy Blupi and Speedy Blupi II, were worried about kids in the United States not understanding what a Blupi was, so they renamed the games Speedy Eggbert and Speedy Eggbert 21. For simplicity's sake I'll refer to the character and game series as 'Blupi' from here on out. Speedy Blupi is a simple platformer video game. Hopping into the single player mode, you’ll quickly get an idea of what it's all about;…