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
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