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a stinky ox 🐂

I saw someone mentioning Bruce Lee just now and that reminded me of the old Bruce Lee game that everyone had back in the 8-bit days.

A good game, and me being me one of my favourite parts of it wasn't even an interactive part of the game, it was a big fat ox thing that sat atop decorative pillars in a few of the game levels.

The Bruce Lee ox thing as seen on the Commodore 64. It looks a bit rotund and short-legged for a bovine but it obviously has large horns, and we love anything with large horns of course.
a stinky ox 🐂

Here is the BBC Micro version of the Bruce Lee ox. It has even less colour than the C64 one.

The BBC Micro Bruce Lee ox. Whereas the c64 ox obviously uses a 2 bit per pixel bitmap, the BBC micro renders the beast with a single colour.
a stinky ox 🐂

The ZX Spectrum version of the ox is a little less pixellated and a bit more rotund. A cuddlier ox.

The ZX Spectrum version of the ox is rendered with a monochrome bitmap but at twice the rez of the c64 ox. As a result the beast appears more pleasingly rotund and potentially cuddlier. The horns are also rather better defined.
a stinky ox 🐂

If you were to play Bruce Lee on an early PC then the poor ox would look rather dejected on a monochrome screen.

Here we see the ox on a monochrome screen such as might have been used with an early IBM PC. The shape of the ox is recognisable but the vertical bars forming the background rather spoil one's appreciation of the ox.
a stinky ox 🐂

The Apple 2's ox is somewhat shortened lengthwise, making it look a bit more rounded and plump than those of the c64 and Atari 8-bits.

The Apple 2 version of the Bruce Lee ox. The ox appears slightly shortened and thus slightly plumper and perhaps a smidgeon cuter than its other 8-bit brethren. Horns could use some work though.
a stinky ox 🐂

There have been some remakes of the old Bruce Lee game over the years, and some of them have brought with them updated versions of the ox. Here is the ox from a ZX Spectrum enhanced version of the game.

An enhanced ZX Spectrum Bruce Lee ox. He has a longer head and larger body, and colour attribute cells have been used to make separate colours for his horns and tail.
a stinky ox 🐂

Another modern remake brings us a much more detailed ox, with horns clearly delineated, facial expression more clearly visible and a swishy tail.

A more detailed rendering of the ox, with more detail in his horns, face, body and clearly visible swooshy tail.
a stinky ox 🐂

Someone even made a Lego diorama of a Bruce Lee level, complete with a Lego ox.

A Bruce Lee ox made out of Lego. It has nice big horns but being made out of Lego makes it look a bit like a 1930s architecture style building in the shape of an ox.
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a stinky ox 🐂

One fail was an "Ultimate Bruce Lee" game which had THIS in it. Clearly NOT an ox.

This is plainly some kind of a lion thing. It is not an ox and thus does not deserve to be on the ox pedestal in a Bruce Lee game.
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@llamasoft_ox They did a pretty good job on the CPC version!

The Ox from the CPC version of Bruce Lee
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