Q*bert was one of the oh-so-rare games that transitioned from the arcade to the home and stayed pretty faithful.
I have the tabletop mini arcade cabinet of this, with a color VFD. Vacuum fluorescent display, the same type used in older microwaves or VCRs, in which you can still see all the unlit segments.
i love large scale VFDs. it’s the most bespoke a “screen” can be!
I always loved the 4-color disc Q-bert would utilize to get back to the top!!
That ad style is one of my favorites. I’ve always enjoyed arrays of selections–especially when it comes to video games. I think the box for the Atari 7800 had like 20 different screenshots from various games on the back, i spent a lot of time looking at them 🙂
woah no way, i did the same with my gamecube box as a kid! i wonder if that was the last generation with that kinda box art.
I like that he swore when he died. @!#&
real G
I remember paying 100DM (~€50,-) for that one (vc2600) back then. Which would be like 5 trillion moneyz today, or something like that.
Ahhh sweet memories…played that sucker for months
Curiosity got the better of me. (100 DM = Deutsche Mark, Western German currency in 1986 when the vc2600 released) is € 112,69 as of today.
By far not the difference in inflation I suspected.
Does not sound as high as expected, but 100DM at that time sure felt like a LOT compared to what measly value 50€ have (basically none).
And it didn’t feel that much just because I was a kid. My allowance was higher than what minimum wage is. I was a spoiled brat.
Being a Schilling kid, yeah, let’s say 500 or even 1000 ÖS felt like a fortune. Found one of my grandmother’s old snack bar menus from 1991 the other day. Small beer 5 Schilling and 50 Groschen. Holy Alcoholism.
Isn’t that indexed from 2001, the last year the DM was a currency? It still seems low to me, I’d guess inflation to be about 1.5-2 times higher. But, the Atari VC2600 was from the early 80’s, so that’s a lot more inflation on top.
I think it’s indexed from 1988, at least that’s what I selected in the year drop-down.
The sprites on the VIC20 version, wow.
no sprites on the vic, all petscii and remapped fonts
I remember playing this in '88 or so. Amazing game for its time.
You can play it now using MAME.
Mame is such an incredible project!
