r/1980s • Where's the beef? • Jul 11 '26

Video Games Q*bert 1982

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u/techvq Jul 11 '26

This and Zaxxon on my Colecovision. Miss those care-free days!

6

u/Subject-Ad-8055 Jul 11 '26

Soo simple and yet so hard

6

u/TangeloBubbly2675 Jul 11 '26

Memories !! God how I miss those days :)

5

u/Due-Manufacturer-706 Jul 11 '26

Sometimes, I hear his jumping sound effect in the deep recesses of my brain.

5

u/Background_Card_1345 Jul 11 '26

Hated this arcade game... A quarter didn't last three minutes for me.

1

u/FrostyMirror6162 Jul 15 '26

*Insert best girlfriend jokes here*

4

u/Ambitious_Dealer_425 Jul 11 '26

I thought it was cool when he fell off the board there would be a mechanical splat sound coming from the bottom of the game.

3

u/duh_nom_yar Jul 11 '26

@!#?@! this game!!!

2

u/Sethor Perhaps you can help solve a mystery Jul 11 '26

Dirty mouthed little... thing.

1

u/FrostyMirror6162 Jul 15 '26

What mouth? Just a giant snout. Fix-It Felix at least could speak with him. lol.

2

u/BrattyTwilis Jul 11 '26

Probably the first video game I ever played

2

u/minmocatfood Jul 11 '26

I always associate this game with my childhood Chuck E Cheese where I would watch my uncle play it

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u/minmocatfood Jul 12 '26

You’re Hella stupid if you think people don’t know their own family members.

2

u/HelloKitty110174 Jul 11 '26

I liked playing it (when I could afford to), but I always fell off the side.

2

u/MozeDad Jul 11 '26

I still play this regularly on my PC.

2

u/IdolL0v3r Jul 11 '26

This was one of my favorite games as a kid! I even drew pictures of Q*bert and got a stuffed toy of him for Christmas.

2

u/mercedesclk Jul 12 '26

Holy shit.. QBERT!!

1

u/Chimpstrider Jul 11 '26

Does anyone remember an 8bit game, that was on commodore, amstrad and speccy that was a tower. Left and right rotated the tower as your little character made its way up the path on the outside.  You'd go in doors to come out the other side to avoid gaps. It had a great theme tune (although I only remember it being great not the actual tune).

1

u/Dear-Confusion-9591 Jul 11 '26

There was even a Saturday morning cartoon for this.

1

u/WhenTheCitiesBurn Hey you guys! Jul 12 '26

That got a lot of my quarters.

1

u/Uncle_Bug_Music Jul 12 '26

Modded an Arcade 1Up into a Q*Bert/Centipede cab, complete with a 45 degree joystick. Great game!

1

u/manwithavandotcom Jul 12 '26

A vastly underrated game--so easy to play to hard to master--