YMMV / Boppin'

• Anvilicious - Yeah, the mottos of the software house are "Adult Games for Adult People" and "Determined to Disturb", but aside from the Vanity Plate (a teddy bear stabbed with a knife and oozing blood), the heroes' suicide when they run out of lives, and the Hunnibunz being reduced to bloody messes as you continue to attack them, there isn't anything that doesn't make this game a puzzle for all ages and people. Those elements were actually censored, and surely the developers were bitter about it (they were reintroduced later with the option of turning them on/off), but the message against censorship and for artistic integrity is delivered with all the subtlety of a hammer on your head, both in-game with the main enemies (ridiculous Moral Guardians) and in the developers' notes found in the intro and among the game's options.
  • Also, while violence is cool, piracy is totally uncool.
• Harsher in Hindsight - In Boppin', the antagonist is a Well-Intentioned Extremist who wants to erase everyone's potential for conflict against their will. Jennifer Diane Reitz would later become infamous for contributing to The Conversion Bureau, in which the protagonist is a Well-Intentioned Extremist who wants to erase everyone's potential for conflict against their will.
• Hilarious in Hindsight:
  • The Digital Piracy Is Evil message, considering, it is now available for free on the author's website, Archive.org, and numerous abandonware websites.
  • One of the main characters is named "Yeet", which becomes hilarious now that the word has become internet slang for throwing something (guess what you do in this game). Joel's reaction to reading the name for the first time is priceless.
  • The manual for the Apogee release of the game features a disclaimer regarding the suicide animations and bloody teddy bear logo, saying that it did not reflect their judgment or design philosophy and apologizing if people found it offensive or out of place for a puzzle game. Not only was Rise of the Triad, the Trope Namer for Ludicrous Gibs, published the same year by Apogee, the company would soon become most famous for developing and publishing games that featured wanton amounts of violence and adult content. They would eventually publish Balls of Steel, a pinball game who's mature tables themes were used as a selling point.
• Periphery Demographic: Despite by marketed to adults, as stated above, it did not stop kids from buying and playing the game.

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