Bovver

During this time, Minter released three games: Deflex, Hover Bovver 2:Grand Theft Flymo (a reinterpretation of his own 1984 game, Hover Bovver), and the PC/Macintosh game Gridrunner++ (the third title in the Gridrunner series).

In 1960s Britain, steel-toe boots worn by skinheads and hooligans were called bovver boots ; whence skinheads have themselves sometimes been called bovver boys.

Now in our mid-20s we weren’t too keen on putting on the skinhead bovver boots again but a good button-down shirt is a timeless classic, as was the music being covered by The Specials and other Ska-influenced bands.

When you give him a couple of face tattoos, a well-worn Harrington jacket and some bovver boots, yes.

The guy whom the Independent branded the bovver boy bard no longer looks too bovvered.