A specky wimp appears in Streets of Rage strip Skates' Story. As revealed by Skates, "there's always one jerk in every class who's into computers, one specky wimp with rich parents who drive him to school". Although the description may be offensive to those Boomers who had their own computer, it was primarily a description of a nerdy boy who's computer was hijacked by Skates to analyse a computer disk. Skates was able to bring up the names and crimes of several corrupt police officers before he left the geeky boy.