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| | Q*bert - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | A board game and a card game were also created. | | | Q*bert was also featured in the cartoon Saturday Supercade, though it has few similarities to the games. | | | Q*bert's simple gameplay and controls (one joystick, no buttons) made the game a hit among all age groups. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qbert
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| | IGN: Q*Bert Review |
| | Finally, the original Q*Bert is included in the game. | | | For the three of you who have never played Q*Bert, the game is based on a simple, yet effective puzzler premise (in fact, some say it's the grand daddy of the addictive puzzle game). | | | Two Q*Berts are placed on the game board, each having the objective of coloring every block on the screen. |
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http://psx.ign.com/articles/161/161432p1.html
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| | fUSION Anomaly. Q*Bert |
| | Q*Bert's primary nemesis is Coily, a mind-bogglingly stupid snake who hatches from a large purple ball which falls onto the pyramid and bounces to the bottom row of squares during every round of play. | | | Q*Bert can stop them by hopping onto them, but in the higher levels of play, attempting this can actually make matters worse, as it may force Q*Bert to change cubes of the right color back to the wrong one as he pursues these two gremlins across the playfield. | | | Within a dozen or so games, we were getting scores of around 19000 (we lost the last Q*bert on the first board of the second level each time). |
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http://fusionanomaly.net/qbert.html
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| | Game Revolution Sega Dreamcast Review Page - Game Revolution |
| | Q*bert had a girl, Q*dina (you can tell she's a girl because she's got a bow), a powerless, frustrated enemy named Q*dirk, and a big cube land to hop around in and show off the enigmatic protrusion that must be the source of his power and charm (yeah, just go on thinking it's a nose). | | | Q*bert was a good game twenty years ago, and in some ways this version is even better. | | | Q*Bert can get little power-ups like speed up or invulnerability, which requires the player to press the A button if they want to use them. |
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http://www.gamerevolution.com/oldsite/games/dreamcast/puzzle/qbert.htm
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| | Welcome to Slushfactory.com: A Pop Culture Extravaganza |
| | This was great news for Q*Bert and Coily, who would each share three cents of every quarter that was put into the game which put Q*Bert on the fast-track to superstardom. | | | The Q*Bert Memorial Fund was set up in 1992, establishing for the first time health insurance for video game characters. | | | By early 1983, the game was ready to go. |
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http://www.slushfactory.com/content/EpuFukEpAFFjrIoYJF.php
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| | IGN: Q*Bert |
| | Because he's completely armless, Q*Bert is has no offensive weapons to fight back--so he must try to lure the baddies to their doom by lingering at the edge of the pyramids, only to jump on a floating disc that takes him back to the top. | | | Q is sentenced to a life of jumping on pyramids of blocks, turning all the exposed faces the same color. | | | Since the touch pad is set up like a traditional d-pad, and Q*Bert travels is strict diagonals, you must use the 1, 3, 7, and 9 keys to move the little guy. |
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http://wireless.ign.com/articles/389/389405p1.html
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| | Q*Bert - Atari 2600 |
| | The remaining Q*berts are shown at the top of the screen throughout the game. | | | Green Ball is the other green character that can't catch Q*bert, either. | | | But if Q*bert catches Green Ball, all the characters except Q*bert freeze for a second. |
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http://www.ozyr.com/atari/qbert.html
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| | Cafeman's Atari 5200 Supersystem Q*bert Page |
| | nother arcade port (Q*bert was a Gottlieb game), 5200 Q*bert is quite the fun game, with its only concession being its control setup. | | | Give Q*bert many, many plays through, and I bet you'll get attached to it. | | | Level 6 (and so on) maintains level 5's rules of 2 jumps and a return to the original cube color if you jump on it a 3rd time. |
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http://cafeman.www9.50megs.com/atari/5200QBert.html
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| | Coinop.org /// Some Random Page |
| | From the pitiful sound of Q*bert plunging off the pyramid, to the clinking sound the game makes when you drop a coin in the coin slot, Dave was a master at using sound to enhance the game experience. | | | Q*bert was written in 8088 assembly language and was started with a framework supplied by Tim Skelly for the game Reactor. | | | Nothing was ever programmed to be said specifically, with the exception of "Hello, I'm turned on." when you power the game up and "Bye-bye" at the end of a game. |
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http://coinop.org/features/qbstory.aspx
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| | jay is games: Q*bert |
| | The object of the game is to move your Q*bert around the play field, hopping onto each square to turn it to the target... | | | The object of the game is to move your Q*bert around the play field, hopping onto each square to turn it to the target color shown. | | | The 1982 classic arcade game of Q*bert, re-created in Shockwave for online play over the Web. |
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http://jayisgames.com/archives/2004/11/qbert.php
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| | Q*bert for Gameboy |
| | Q*bert has always held a strange allure for me. I actually never played it too much nor was I very good at it, but as a young programmer (I was about 13 in '82) I was intrigued by its simple and unique gameplay and amazing graphics. | | | In the spring of 2000 I released a freeware Gameboy Color ROM, that was an identical clone of the old Q*bert arcade game. | | | I eventually learned the name of the individual whose discovery of my freeware ROM sent me on my wild adventure: Eric Kinkead at Game Titan. |
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http://www.1000klub.com/Qbert
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| | ClassicGaming.com - Game of the Week |
| | Q*bert's enemies, Sam and Coily, do their best to thwart Q*bert in his colorful game. | | | When Q*bert hops on a cube, its top changes color, so Q*bert invented a little game: he loves to go from pyramid to pyramid, changing all the cube tops in each pyramid to another color. | | | One thing that will immediately seem odd to you is Q*Bert's controls: It's kind of hard to get used to moving around on the pyramid, and you'll no doubt fall off many times before you get the hang of it. |
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http://www.classicgaming.com/rotw/qbert.shtml
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| | Q*bert items at QuarterArcade.com |
| | Q*bert’s goal is to change the color of a each square on a pyramid to a common color by hopping on each square. | | | Read more about this game, and other games at the Great Game Database: ggdb.com. | | | The game was one of the most merchandised of any classic games, probably due to its success and colorful characters. |
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http://www.quarterarcade.com/Name.aspx?rgeid=2221
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| | Q*bert's Qubes Page |
| | Converting your existing Q*bert game into a Q*bert's Qubes game is a pretty straightforward procedure. | | | The game play starts with the player-controlled Q*Bert character appearing at the top of the playfield. | | | There is a chance that there has to be one more mod done to the game PCB. |
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http://www.gamearchive.com/Video_Games/Manufacturers/Gottlieb-Mylstar/qberts_qubes.html
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| | ATPM 7.11 - Review: Q*bert |
| | MacSoft’s Q*bert is an entertaining game that’s true to the original, and it adds the option of a great variety of play fields on which to test your skills. | | | It may be worth noting here that one player uses the number pad and the other uses the A, S, Z, and X keys; the difference in the relative positioning of the keys may be a disadvantage to the latter player. | | | In Head-to-Head (which is different from the two-player option in the “Classic” mode), Q*bert competes with his blue twin, Q*dirk, trying to traverse all the squares on his side of the play field before his opponent. |
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http://www.atpm.com/7.11/qbert.shtml?print
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| | Coin-Op Museum: Q*bert |
| | You must have Q*bert hop on all the squares of each pyramid and change them into the color that they are required to be. | | | One of the main differences between Faster Harder More Challenging Q*bert and the original is that the flying disks on the sides of the pyramids change positions randomly throughout the game play. | | | The orange character who you control in this game is Q*bert. |
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http://www.klov.com/game_detail.php?letter=Q&game_id=9182
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| | Phosphor-Dot Fossils: Q*Bert |
| | Q*Bert was a challenge to translate to home video game screens, with its vaguely 3-D playing field and vivid colors, as well as the character animations. | | | Because of the complexity of achieving this, Q*Bert's Qubes did not require players to complete the entire playing field, opting instead for Tic-Tac-Toe style lineups of a single row. | | | Any green objects and creatures Q*Bert can catch will not hurt him - in fact, the little bouncing green balls will stop time briefly for everyone but Q*Bert. |
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http://www.thelogbook.com/phosphor/qbert.html
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| | TNL Forum - Q*bert |
| | For the few of you unfamiliar with the game, the object is to jump on all the blocks of the pyramid while avoiding enemies like Coily the snake. | | | While not as big as other early '80s video characters like Pac-Man and Donkey Kong, Q*bert was still one of the most popular ones of its time. | | | I wanted to pick up this version but I was always afraid they screwed up the game. |
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http://www.the-nextlevel.com/board/showthread.php?t=24611
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| | Qrazy for Q*Bert - QuarterArcade.com |
| | Q*bert has always been one of my favorite arcade games. | | | Despite never reaching the popularity of Pac-Man or Donkey Kong, Q*bert was probably the second most merchandised arcade game of its time behind Pac-Man. As shown below, the funny looking character with had his own action figure line, boardgame, lunchbox, puzzles and even his own trashcan. | | | Q*bert Plush: What kid wouldn’t want to go bed with their own Q*bert stuff animal. |
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http://www.quarterarcade.com/Content/Articles/QBert.aspx
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| | MilkandCookies - Q*Bert |
| | Q*Bert is one of those classic games that has stood the test of time. | | | For those of you who couldn't figure out how to play: turn the NUM LOCK key off and use 8, 4, 6, and 2 on your keypad. | | | Don't know how to restart the game or anything besides the refresh. |
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http://www.milkandcookies.com/links/8439/detail
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| | Macworld: News: MacSoft resurrects an old classic with Q*bert |
| | If you whiled away any time in a video game arcade in the 1980's, you're probably familiar with the classic game Q*bert, an abstract action game where you take the role of an oddly shaped orange creature who transforms the platforms he's hopping on by jumping from cube to cube. | | | Mac game publisher MacSoft has announced the release of a new version of Q*Bert, updated for the new millennium. | | | Q*bert features adjustable difficulty settings, four unique worlds with six levels each and three modes of play -- Classic, Adventure and Head-to-Head. |
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http://www.macworld.com/news/2001/10/10/qbert
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| | Good Deal Games - Classic Interview: Q*Bert |
| | Q*Bert: Yeah, and it had better be better than that crap Pac-Man ended up with. | | | VGP: I really can't understand why so many video game players are so taken with you. | | | Q*Bert: I feel that if you don't have anything nice to say about somebody, you shouldn't say |
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http://www.gooddealgames.com/interviews/int_qbert.html
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| | History of Q*Bert |
| | I had Q*bert jumping around the playfield avoiding balls, and I was trying to figure out what to put in next. | | | Of course, a slew of other games were in various stages of development. | | | Even Failure has many fathers, but in the Games bizniz, the failure of these "dead-beat" dads is not as a dire as in the real world. |
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http://members.aol.com/JPMLee/qbert.htm
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| | Sourcing Q*bert |
| | I've played some commercial games that have decent sounding digital audio so it should be possible I think. | | | To get a 16x16 sprite with 6 colors I'd have to layer 4 Gameboy sprites. | | | Fortunately I found a freeware tool on the Net called IDA, the "Interactive Disassembler". |
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http://www.1000klub.com/Qbert/qbinfo.html
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| | Starcade Q*Bert Video Arcade Game |
| | B. By jumping on a bouncing green ball | | | Theme: Cute character hops around pyramid of cubes, scoring points and avoiding nasty guys. | | | B. Who is the sunglassed, green guy who can change squares back to their original color? |
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http://www.jmpc.com/Starcade/games/qbert.htm
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| | Q*Bert Review - Dreamcast |
| | There are different dimensions in the game and each one has it’s own little special effects and power ups. | | | Speed (makes Q¤Bert go faster), Sun (which destroys all Q¤Bert’s enemies), and the Key (which allows Q¤Bert to open doors and cages). | | | You still play it the same old way, jumping on cubes to change the colors. |
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http://dreamcast.gamezone.com/gzreviews/r13096.htm
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| | eBay - Game: Q Bert |
| | Q*Bert (Nintendo) NES Game Original Q Bert QBert | | | Q*Bert - Nintendo NES Game Q Bert Ultra |
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http://product.ebay.com/Q-Bert_W0QQfvcsZ1453QQpdqueryZQ51Q2aBertQQsoprZ4328
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| | IMG Preview: Q*Bert |
| | When you ask someone what their favorite classic arcade game was from the 1980’s chances are you’ll get your ear talked off about some Atari game, whether it be Tempest, Asteroids, Spy Hunter, Frogger, Battle Zone, or what have you. | | | Q*bert!” It seems like everyone has fond memories of Q*bert-- even people (like me) who hardly ever played it! | | | Okay, so it’s a very simple story, but if it was good enough for Donkey Kong it’s good enough for Q*bert. |
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http://www.insidemacgames.com/previews/view.php?ID=38
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| | Q*Bert 3 - PC Game Shopping at dooyoo.co.uk |
| | This game for up to two player was developed by Realtime and published by NTVIC. | | | Q*Bert 3 - PC Game Shopping at dooyoo.co.uk | | | Home > PC / Video Games > PC Game > Q*Bert 3 |
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http://www.dooyoo.co.uk/pc-game/q-bert-3
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| | Q*Bert @#!%@!$ |
| | A rare marquee features Q*Bert's cartoon swearing instead of the game's name. | | | I'm tempted to go off on a rant about how this typifies why I love these old games instead of modern "cool" games like Mortal Kombat VII that emphasize graphics and/or violence over game play and fun. | | | Q*Bert has hit the bottom of the cabinet. |
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http://www.biroschik.com/mba/games/qbert.htm
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| | Coinop.org /// Q*Bert (1983) |
| | Good results can be obtained by working your way down one end of the level at the start, moving across the bottom to the other side, catching a disk to the top, and then filling in the middle squares. | | | It was after I had this programmed that other people noticed it and we were encouraged to turn it into a game." | | | Q*Bert's name originated by the combination of cube and Hubert, but the Cube-Bert was changed to Q-Bert to make it more unique. |
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http://coinop.org/g.aspx/100140/Q_Bert.html
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| | IGN Boards - History of Q*Bert |
| | [http://games.ign.com/] IGN Boards » All Game Boards (Free) » Q*Bert Join Insider | | | i dont know if i like Qbert that much | | | I thought I knew all there was to know about Q*Bert before, but I was wrong... |
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http://boards.ign.com/board/b7932/67758641/p1?3
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| | AtariAge - Games in Development - Q*bert |
| | The game already features a title screen as well as the "Level" screen that appears before each wave of levels. | | | The most noticeable missing elements are all the enemies beyond the red balls, although this version is still somewhat challenging due to the speed and frequency with which those balls do bounce down towards you. | | | Description: Ken Siders, fresh from his development of Atari 5200, 8-bit, and 7800 versions of Beef Drop (a Burgertime port), has embarked on his next project: A port of the popular arcade game Q*bert. |
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http://www.atariage.com/development_page.html?InDevelopmentID=89
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| | Q*Bert Cocktail Table |
| | In my opinion, this is the best of the 3 Q*Bert games. | | | This is what the sequel to Q*Bert would have been if Qubes had not been the sequel. | | | This is a fun new addition to Q*Bert. |
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http://www.appolo.com/collection/qbert/qbert_cocktail_table.htm
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| | Q*Bert's Quest by Gottlieb |
| | FLIPPERS - Q*Bert has 4 flippers set out in a cross-over formation - i.e. | | | If only the 1st position Villain lamp is flashing, the corresponding centre Villain lamp is lit towards an Extra Ball. | | | The time between the Villains' attacks and the speed of the Villains' Attack lamps lighting will increase depending on the number of Qubes lit in Q*Bert's Pyramid - i.e. |
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http://www.geocities.com/system80pins/Qbert-rules.html
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| | QMAME |
| | Coily and Q*BERT now stop screaming the minute the knocker triggers… as does the original game. | | | For anyone that has never experienced the *real* thing, the Q*BERT arcade game had a cool feature. | | | Q*BERT should boot the same way as the original and say, “Hello. |
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http://members.cox.net/brado426/QMAME
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| | Hasbro to Resurrect Q*Bert - PlayStation News at GameSpot |
| | "Q*Bert is one of my all-time favorite games, and I am delighted it will join our growing line of action arcade classics," said Tom Dusenberry, president of Hasbro Interactive. | | | Hasbro Interactive announced on Monday that it had signed an agreement with Sony Signatures, a consumer products division of Sony Pictures Entertainment, to bring the arcade classic Q*Bert to the PC and video game console platforms. | | | Next generation of Q*Bert signed over to Hasbro's upcoming lineup. |
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http://www.gamespot.com/news/1999/05/10/news_2451313.html?new_theme=standard_alt&sid=2451313
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| | www.myspace.com/djqbert |
| | mr Q=bert why did you choose to scratch. | | | The Pinoys making it big give me hope. | | | Check out "Bebot" by the Black Eyed Peas--Apl is rapping on it in Filipino. |
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http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendID=116553
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| | Qbert |
| | This allows you to play 3 games in one cabinet, the games included are: Q*bert, FHMC Q*bert and Q*bert's Qubes. | | | I purchased the Multi Qbert boardset from Arcadeshop and installed it within minutes. | | | This will be reproduced soon by Phoenix Arcade. |
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http://www.arcade-classics.com/gameroom_pix/qbert
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| | GameSpy: Q*bert |
| | The classic action-puzzle game where the red, long-nosed Q*bert must avoid Coily, Whammy Balls, Ugg, and Wrong-Way as he attempts to turn all his cubes to one color. | | | Leap on a flying disc and fly off to safety before they get you, or else it's @!#?@! |
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http://cheats.gamespy.com/arcade/qbert
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| | Q*Bert - Rex Rabbit - May 29, 2002 |
| | Q*Bert also loves cats, especially our cat Thea, who seems to think she is bunny too. | | | Q*Bert loves to petted, which is a good thing because his fur is softer than clouds. | | | They play and nap together, and Thea drinks out of Q*bert's water bottle and munches on his hay. |
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http://www.petoftheday.com/archive/2002/May/29.html
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| | AOL Games: Q*bert 2005 |
| | Thanks to our sponsors, you get FREE games! | | | This game has been approved by AOL for members of all ages | | | Hop Q*bert around the board while avoiding Coily, Ugg, Wrongway, Slick and Sam! |
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http://games.aol.com/gamewide.adp?id=23783&ncid=AOLGAM00120000000001
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| | eBay - Q Bert Reviews |
| | For fans of classic games, one of the oddest-looking heroes of arcade gaming's past has been given a makeover, courtesy of the Dreamcast. | | | It's up to our fuzzy, long-nosed hero to hop his way through a huge number of increasingly difficult puzzles restoring the colors of each level's blocks to their proper order, while evading the pursuit of Coily and his minions. | | | These increasingly challenging levels will range from the traditional stacked blocks you remember from the original, to strange configurations that have been twisted by Coily in order to keep Q*Bert away from rescuing his friends and returning the land of Q*Dina to normal. |
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http://search.reviews.ebay.com/Q-Bert_UPC_096427012092_W0QQfvcsZ1453QQsoprZ3938QQupvrZ2
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| | - Free Games Downloads - Q*bert 2005 |
| | Look out for Coily, he'll chase Q*bert all around the board. | | | Change the color of the cubes to complete each round. | | | Based on the 80's arcade phenomenon, Q*bert 2005 offers 50 different board shapes and level after level of hopping-mad fun! |
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http://askgrandpa.supersurge.com/free-games/2005/7/11/qbert-2005.html
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| | James's Q*Bert Project |
| | He pointed out that he'd never quite seen a marquee like mine... | | | I do have some pictures of what my Q*Bert looked like before I restored it, and I hope to have pictures up sometime in the future. | | | It wouldn't be fun if there wasn't some work to do. |
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http://www.dragonslairii.com/arcade/QBert
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| | Q*bert |
| | All Q*bert systems had an IC amp that was overpowered, so they frequently burned out. | | | Rather than replace it and burn out another, I built a new sound board with volume control that is properly powered. | | | The sound did not work when I obtained it. |
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http://sparhawk.sbc.edu/arcade/qbert.html
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