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Parte 2 — Los 80: Caída y Resurgir

Juego 40: Q*Bert (1982)

Me esperaba más de un juego con referencia en Los Simpson.

I don't need to explain QBert, do I?

In fact I would love for someone to explain to me how you ever get used to the controls! For the life of me I can never stop making the poor little thing leap to his doom because I push up forgetting that they're going to jump up and to the right.


I'm sorry, QBert. You deserve better than doofuses like me playing this.

The barcade was really crowded, the beer selection was really limited. I spent like $8 on a super tiny bowl of mac and cheese, smaller than those microwave ones you can get for a dollar at the super market. It's been some time, but I'm also pretty sure I never got 4 quarters for my dollar, if you know what I mean. Yet, these are the real only places to play arcade machines these days, which is a huge bummer.

Q*Bert is okay, not a lot to write home about. I rank it the same as the Barcade experience.

Update: I played it again at a smaller not barcade experience and found the game to be much more exciting and frantic so I'm upping my score half a star.

Sorry for the mean score, Q*bert, given that you are another little piece of gaming history.

Hop on a stack of blocks to make them change color and run away from the enemies, but inevitably lose and hear Q*bert, the dirtiest mouthed video-game character of all time, drop some hardcore swears (they'd be really shocking if you could understand his language or see them translated other than as punctuation marks).

It's an okay game but greatly overshadowed by other early 80s arcade games for me. It's very difficult for what it is and there's not a lot of drive to keep playing, when the only gameplay mechanic is just running over squares -- it's like Pac-Man but a lot harder and with cooler graphics.

My dad really liked it, but it was never a hit with me.

2.5 - Interesting: Interesting but not quite enjoyable