Q*bert Turns 40: Comparing Then and Now
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 4 ต.ค. 2024
- Q*bert is a all time classic arcade game and has been ported to several platforms. Today we look at a new unofficial release for the Atari 2600 and show the many improvements over the original release. Game demo found here: forums.atariag...
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Here's a funny story of my first memory with Qbert. My father and I went to my uncle's trailer when I was about 5. They went right outside to wash the car or something and my uncle let me play Qbert on his computer. After a while I went to see what my dad and uncle were doing but I couldn't find the door to get outside because in his trailer the walls and door looked alike and there wasn't a knob, but a little metal tab. After about 10 minutes of being stuck in the place I started getting upset and cried. I went back to play on the computer and cried playing Qbert until they finally came back in which all in all was probably 10-20 minutes total! It felt like hours to me.
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2 player co-op on q-bert! OMG I want this!
Love Q*Bert so much.❤ First video game anyone ever bought for me was Q*Bert on the 2600, my grandma bought it for me at Sears at the beginning of the Crash, so she also grabbed Ms Pac, too. Still have those carts. Played the hell out of the NES version, too.
The animation of Q*bert bouncing in this version..... splendid!
Very cool. I think it's great that people are coming back to these classic games and making improvements, etc. Growing up played this in the arcade and 2600.
These programmers are doing great jobs on this lived old console. I loved 2600 version, the c64 and atari 8bit as well.
I remember Q-Bert back in the day in the arcades but I rarely played it because I wasn't too good at it. But I had a pal that was great at it and could play for hours in one quarter and amass scores of extras. I have it on the NES but the control is not the best unless you use a NES Advantage. This Atari version isn't half bad it's fairly close considering the console. Good showing and cool video John!👉😃👈
It is a tuff game I liked it but didn't play it much in the arcade for the same reason as you
@@matthewlane518 yeah join the club lol!😜
Great comparison John . Looks awesome 👍👍
Thanks 👍
Holy crap that looks awesome!! I didnt get my Qbert cart for the 2600 till my late teens but I fell for it hard. Thankfully I got to play it in the arcade since then. I need this!
Great comparison and review John! As a big fan of Q*bert it was a pleasure to be a tester for this fine release of a worthy successor of this game 😊
Oh, this was an instant buy for me! This is a superb version of the game!
My first experience with QBert was on my cousins 2600. I liked it enough that later I got it for my NES. I played a lot of it back then.
This look great. I played this so much in the arcade, but I was so bad at it. I hope we see this on an Evercade collection. Thanks for the video, John.
This looks fantastic! I first played Q*Bert at a roller rink when I was maybe 10 or 11. The cartoony graphics won me over immediately and I pumped every quarter I had into that machine that day. Loved the Parker Bros. version for the VCS as well, but this update seems to fix nearly everything that was weak about the original, especially the sprites and their animations. Truly mind-blowing work.
I just love Q-Bert and the 2600 version is fantastic!
Great comparison, and sweet homebrew John! I'm with you in that the Atari VCS/2600 original library Q*bert port was great, but there's nothing wrong with a homebrew which tries to take things even further.
The Parker Brothers cartridge was released in 1982. Atari didn't release its first 32KB cartridge (Fatal Run) until 1989. To produce a 32KB cartridge in 1982, the retail price would probably have to be at least $100, which would be $315 today.
I had a Qbert watch as a kid a long time ago wish I still had it!
Thank you very much for your video! I'm glad you appreciated my game!
Amazing version for the 2600. Looking forward to what else you program.
Wow Q-Bert hits the screen !
My first Cbert experience was on the 2600, later I bought Coleco and it was a great game, then I bought the ZX Spectrum 48k and played some good versions. Now I have the ZX -Spectrum Next and love Q-Bee
Back in the day, my friends all had 8 bit Atari's, but I had a TI-99/4a.
I was used to them repeatedly commenting on how much better arcade ports were on the 800. Until Qbert.
Yes, being an unauthorized TI release, there is no GRom support, and is therefor restricted to an 8K cart (so no level-intro animations), but gameplay is arcade perfect, and unlike the 800 version Qbert has eyes! (although sadly, it does not make use of the Speech Synth - a missed opportunity to nudge it up a notch against the competition)
All of the Parker Bros TI releases are exceptional (even if we had to wait 40 years for Tutankham) but Q-bert is a system-defining arcade-port. If only TI would have supported 3rd party development. One can only imagine what Parker Bros would have offered on the system if they had been licensed to use TI's GRom technology.
Like you I played it in arcades and then I got it form 2600, still have that cartridge and 2600, also had it on colecovision and also thought at the time this was the best version visually but agreed the 2600 game play is spot on. Also had it on my Atari 600XL then I PS1, one cool version I had was on my Sony Ericsson T630 I actually got that mobile phone just for Q*Bert :) this new atari age version is inane how they could actually code it with all this stuff and the speed on a 2600 in mind blowing. Do they have some behind the scenes info on how they achieved this level on a 2600, really shows how with modern knowledge how good the 2600 could be. amazing Nowadays I buy anything Q*Bert related this is my fav game character of all time.
The cartridge uses an ARM coprocessor to handle game logic and improve graphics generation. Basically the 2600 processor works only to generate the TV picture.
I must confess I never played Q-Bert as a kid, never even knew about it. I used to play a knock-off on my Amstrad called "Crazy Erbert", so I first saw Q-Bert 3 on the SNES, I thought is was a rip off of Erbert D
But, have you got a cold there John? You sound quite croaky today Sir!
I've got one coming!
Sounds like you picked up a little Con-Cold (which is practically inevitable), hope you're feeling ok! Thanks for the heads-up, will definitely look into getting this!
No it’s all the smoke in the air.
OMG I want this!
John I too have the 2600 version and enjoy playing it every once in awhile. I’ve never played the Nintendo version but I’ve heard unfavorable things about it. Have you played that version before?
Personally, I like the original 2600 version of Q*bert better than the Atari 5200 or Colecovision versions. Q*bert for the 2600 seems tailor-made for the system - I can't quite explain it... Anyway Parker Bros. games were so excellent. Imo, just as good as Activision games!
I actually didn't realize this game was 40 years old 😳 . I only knew that it had a reboot
The C64 version of Qbert was so good
Great video, John. I put a lot of hours into Q-Bert on the Coleco. I think the Coleco's joystick (which gets panned sometimes), was actually really good for arcade ports like this. Can you recommend a good Q-Bert version for a modern console?
Does Game Boy Color count?
I was just wondering if Q*bert had an updated version on the 2600.
Definitely a must have😁
I still have my Atari 2600 along with Qbert and a bunch of games. I also have Qbert for PlayStation, it has a classic version on it that you can play but I can't remember if it looks more like the arcade version or Atari. 🤔
I played the NES version a bunch when I was a kid
Never was a huge q-Bert fan but this is very cool
John , have you played the atari 7800 homebrew version b*nQ. , it's much better ?
Hope you've checked out the homebrew 'Mega QBert' for the Sega Genesis. Great version of the game!
Wow I'm older than this game
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Original 2600 was the best
We had Q'bert on the Commodore 64. It blew the Atari version out of the water
for your information : Jaguar, Jah - Gwar. (the french word makes it easier to understand)
Ja gou are
This is the correct pronunciation. Not Jag-Wire. DJAG- WAR (Jug with an A, WARRRR)
Absolutely not. This is a bunch of nonsense.
@@witness1013 its in dictionaries friend :P
The cool kids just say Jag.
@@WithScienceAsMySheperd Ahah, no, sorry, it's not.
@@witness1013 in francophone countries it is
I will stick with the Dreamcast version the original version is included as a bonus with the new Qbert game back in the day
I must be in the minority. I despise Qbert (love the character). I didn't like the perspective, don't like the game play, just didn't like any about it.