[Dr. Sivana]

I liked Quake a lot more than Quisp (character-wise, that is - it was the exact same cereal).

It was NOT the exact same cereal. That would be like saying Angel Hair is the same as linguine. Quake was crunchy little gears, Quake was delicate little bowl shaped saucers. Quake was a more substantial cereal. I assume you preferred him in his formidable miner persona rather than his slimmed down Aussie Cowboy look. (Moms complaining about potential violence got Quake lightened up a bit).

[Ancesthntr]

Made from the same stuff - check the Wikipedia article.

However, I preferred Quake.

Even though the term didn’t exist then, and I was about 10-12 at the time, Quisp seemed a bit too metrosexual for me - skinny little b@stard flitting around all over the place, and you couldn’t be sure of his/hers/its sex. OTOH, there was no doubt that Quake was a man - he looked and acted like it.

“Moms complaining about potential violence...” - the Spock babies started to neuter boys at about that point. I remember - in Kindergarten, for crying out loud - that the teacher wouldn’t let us sing the Batman theme (”Its too loud and too violent.” “What does violent mean?” “Nevermind, you can’t sing that song.” “Why? My mom let’s me watch it, not just sing it.” “Because I said.”). It has only gone down hill from there.