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QQRIQ is a phonetic abbreviation of "kukuriku", which is the sound of the rooster in Hungarian and in several other languages (Polish "kukuryku", Hebrew " קוקוריקו" etc.). Makes wonder what the process for choosing the passwords was.



Also Gyugyu might be a reference to the Hungarian movie: "The Fifth Seal"

"Just imagine you are about to die, but you will be reincarnated in to one of two people; a slave or the rich master. The slave suffers under the master. He has his tongue and an eye removed and his wife and child are killed. He goes on living knowing he is a good person, as he never committed such appalling, sadistic acts on another like his master has done. The rich master has no moral qualms about it at all. He doesn't think what he did was wrong; the slave needed to be punished. You have the choice, whether to be a poor and righteous slave or be a rich and corrupt master."

Gyugyu is the name of the slave.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0075467


Gyu is also the Japanese word for beef.


Maybe, but this game was developer by a Hungarian team.


The programmers for this game were in Budapest, so this is a good guess!


I didn't know that. The QQRIQ jumped out at me because of my Polish background, so I googled it and found it's international.


Popely with a Hungarian "ly" was a giveaway too


Cocorico in french, very close :)


Kikeriki in German!


Very similar to "kikiriki" in Spanish.


Wonder why some went for an o-sound and others an i-sound. To make matters worse it's kykeliky in Norwegian, so both y, e, i.


…and kukeliku in Swedish, neighbour


I wonder if Americans are getting blocked for typing their onomatopoeia.


It appears further down in a sibling thread.


See also: the town of Kakariko in Zelda which always has chickens


Wow I had no idea that was the origin of that name


could it be that the rooster/cockadoodledoo is something performed like clockwork in the morning, so the showing framedata also being tangential to time and clocks ? probably not




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