The name is a reference to the platformer I Wanna Be the Guy, which I Wanna Be the Boshy is a fangame of, with "Boshy" being a tribute to game streamer BoshyTime whom Erlandsen liked to watch. Many of the game's elements are tributes/parodies of popular video games.
Mar 31, 2012 · Full walkthrough of the I Wanna Be The Guy fangame I Wanna Be The Boshy on the hardest difficulty setting Rage Mode.
The earliest known use of the adjective boshy is in the 1860s. OED's earliest evidence for boshy is from 1860, in a letter by J. M. Atkinson.
Apr 22, 2017 · I Wanna Be The Boshy 2017 Any% Speedrun in 33:34.44. 1.3M views · 7 years ago ...more. witwix. 94.2K. Subscribe.
Aug 9, 2020 · A tool-assisted speedrun of I Wanna Be The Boshy, completed in 22:22.22 under the main real-time speedrunning category (any%, avg-mode, ...