Alpiner: The Skunk & "P. U."

[horizon2374]

Playing Alpiner recently brought me back to my elementary school days. Our school had many TI's, used primarily for educational purposes. I remember my teacher commenting to me once about the skunk; he told me if you approach it a certain way, the speech synthesizer would say "P. U.!" (slang for something stinky). I haven't had any luck duplicating this, but is anyone familiar with this on how this could be done? I'm curious!

[JB]

If I recall, it happens if the skunk sprays you.

[digdugnate]

I'm not sure the specifics on how to make it do it every time, or if my memory is bad.  I do know if you get sprayed and depending on how you do it, he falls a bit and goes 'YUCK!'

[+mizapf]

We had this a while ago:

 

Also, see Speech in Alpiner: https://www.ninerpedia.org/index.php?title=Alpiner

 

[horizon2374]

Interesting, the P. U. isn't listed as a phrase. From what I can remember, it was either 1) how to approached the skunk (from the front or back end) and/or 2) it was programmed specifically in one cartridge and not others. I wonder if this was programmed initially in some of the earliest cartridge releases, then later omitted for it being considered offensive? I'm almost certain I've heard the speech phrase in person (although 37 years ago!)

[digdugnate]

6 hours ago, mizapf said:

We had this a while ago:

 

Also, see Speech in Alpiner: https://www.ninerpedia.org/index.php?title=Alpiner

 

Oh good, I was remembering 'Yuck' correctly.    My wife always takes the opportunity to laugh when the ingame voice tells me how lousy i am at the game.  lol