This brought back memories! This use to be one of my favorite games back in the day! I graduated High School in 1982, and luckily for me, my High School in San Diego was just across the street from a huge Family Fun Center with Arcade games, Batting Cages, Bumper Boats, etc. so that's where I was every day after school! Anyway, nice video, subscribed!
I love watching your videos, and love your arcade. I also must commend you on how well/fluidly you can talk on the spot without a script. You don't talk in circles or loose peoples interest. Well done!
This is my favorite video out of your older videos John! Mostly because I love Q*bert and also because your my favorite arcade channel on UA-cam! I'm a retro gamer and you and me like they the same type of video games. :)
Man, the knocker at Arcade Odyssey (they don't have the game on the floor right now) is crazy loud. Startled the hell out of me first time I played. The game is great fun, Gottlieb made some rather nice arcade games.
the only arcade game i ever completely mastered. could play indefinitely on one quarter. learned all the nuances on my brother's coleco vision which had q*bert and was an exact replication of the arcade q*bert. thank you for posting...brings back some great memories of that early 80's game room experience...damn i miss those days...!!!
I couldn't play indefinitely but I could play for a very long time. The only thing keeping me from playing indefinitely was because of how the color changing works on levels 5 onward. I would do fine most of the time but, every now and then, there wouldn't be a disc in the right place for me to change that last cube to the finishing color. I would be out of sync. When this would happen, I would depend on suicide or Sam to actually help me complete it. 9 times out of 10, I could complete a level 5+ level with no problem though.
I absolutely love watching your arcade videos! You know what would be cool? The next time you have a party and your arcade is rocking, Post it! Nothing like seeing people having fun and a full arcade to boot!
I never played this when i was a kid, now I want to go back and play games i passed up when i was younger. so I came here to see how to play, great video. game looks great!
You know, I've never seen or played a Q*bert in person. I am aware of the machine but just figured it wasn't very good. Obviously I love the theme! Just watched the video... wow, that's crazy. The flipper placement is bizarre!
John, about 6 years ago I said I have been programming in BASIC for over 30 years although I had a 15-year hiatus after 2000 when I discovered a game creation app when my HP Pavillion was just months old. After I discovered the Raspberry Pi, as I was tinkering with RISCOS I stumbled into a programming language, BBC BASIC. Today I got Raspberry Pi 400 home computer, named after the Atari 400 from the 1980s in suffix alone. I installed BBC BASIC SDL 2.0 on it. After learning new things with it, guess what I am writing?
Nice video. And now, I have some notes: As was said, Gottlieb only really had this one successful arcade game after making pinball games from as early as the 1930s. Second, just as Williams Electronics diversified by investing in Bally/Midway and eventually moving on to slot machines, Gottlieb had corporate parents at one point in Coca-Cola (hence the development of a game based on Columbia Pictures' "Krull", and then doing business later as Mylstar Electronics). Third, what's even worse is that Q*Bert was more of an American creation than Pac-Man.
Thanks for the plug for my baby--- BTW, the @!#?@! marquee was produced for games going out on test--- we hadn't yet come up with a name for the noser.
both my parents worked for Gottlieb in Northlake Il. which later became Premier Technology in Bensenville Il. this was sitting in the house along with Krull , Us vs. Them , 3 Stooges , Black Hole , Jacks to Open . was very lucky in my childhood as the arcades would give my father free handfuls of tokens everytime he would deliver a cabinet to the arcades. if you ever want to sell Q-Bert , lemme know
absolutely awesome, I would love to own some classic arcade games, just wish I could find a great place to purchase them :) great videos, you now have a new sub, thank you for the great vids
@Retro91 game review Just because you suck at it doesn't mean he did.. I'm sure that you could probably find it online somewhere because it even made the news...
I use to think there was ball inside the machine because it sounded like a real ball falling when you fell off. I always wondered how they made that sound.
Cool game. I can understand it being way more playable the way the controls are set up on your cab. The game is way to confusing on the d pad on the NES.
Riz2336 i tried to play this game on my desktop computer and i kept forgetting which way was what with my arrow keys and accidentally jumping off the edge.
Nice to see you're rocking the "profanity" banner John. Q*Bert has been my favorite ever since I was a little kid and I still have my stuffed Q*Bert and used to have the little plastic toys, but a house fire melted them all, I'll go check eBay for em'. I'd love to play more of it, but I get to the third stage and I can't advance further. Plus knowing to get the highest scores is marathoning the game for 50+ hours. No thanks.
I love emulation but you just can't beat this. Arcade machines when they were each truly their own unique machine. Joystick on a slant and that knocker; awesome! You have a great basement there and your hard work really shows, love it.
You should try Faster Harder More Challenging Q*Bert on MAME. In that game the harder rules of changing the blocks are applied much earlier in the game, and there's a bunch of new stuff, like Slick and Sam being able to "lock" or even "dual-lock" the blocks until a Coily or a new enemy called Q*Bertha steps on it. There's also a cool bonus round after Levels 2 and 5.
I used to play this game in high school. It took a couple weeks, but I figured out the pattern after 4 I believe. The longest game I had was almost 34 hours before I succumbed to fatigue. My favorite arcade game of the 80's. Btw, is that root beer tapper, or beer tapper next to it?
@MushroomZeroArt What's going on is that I've seen these brand new video arcade game machines at the east San Jose Tully Rd. Chuck E. Cheese's Pizza Time Theater. 🎥 😋 👌 😍 😜 😄 🎥
2:01 So basically they were going to call the game "At Exclamation Point Hash Tag Question Mark At Exclamation Point" BTW, I ready somewhere that there's actually a tape recorder inside the cabinet that makes Q*bert's voice.
My first video game experience ever was Q*Bert on a 2600 Junior on a black & white television. No joke. THAT was difficult, especially when you're like five years old :-P
Space. The final limitation. Seems like there should be some way to have a Neo-Geo approach to this problem. Like some kind of switcher that makes multiple game boards fit into one console so that, say, all those Nintendo arcades could fit into one cabinet.
hey have you seen the movie Wreck-it Ralph? It takes place in an arcade and when the arcade closes the poeple in the video games can go to one game to another. it might change the way you think about arcades
Hey John, have you ever heard of, played, or owned the companion to the Q*bert video arcade machine: Q*bert the pinball machine? Gottlieb produced it in 1983 and it has this crazy figure-eight layout. Here's a partial link to what I'm talking about. /watch?v=6B_BGvD33Ac
I have a mini arcade version of this. No not the old vintage one although it was awesome (And I did have that at one point) I'm talking about arcade style like what you have here but miniature
Use their names! Coily, Ugg & Wrong-Way, Slick & Sam. Not "the snake". One christmas back then I had Q*bert board game, story book, game watch, pajamas, stuffed animal, and the little figure. I was in heaven.
That is totally badass that at 2:59 there is a high score with the initials BMW! Those are the same initials I use in video games, though my first name does not start with B. This is a great game, and you have a sweet cabinet!
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This brought back memories! This use to be one of my favorite games back in the day! I graduated High School in 1982, and luckily for me, my High School in San Diego was just across the street from a huge Family Fun Center with Arcade games, Batting Cages, Bumper Boats, etc. so that's where I was every day after school! Anyway, nice video, subscribed!
I love watching your videos, and love your arcade. I also must commend you on how well/fluidly you can talk on the spot without a script. You don't talk in circles or loose peoples interest. Well done!
This was a great video! I've been playing Q*bert for a long time and I still learned stuff from this. Thanks!
Absolutely! I remember playing it as a kid. Video plus pinball. Neat game.
Happy holidays ⛄
This is my favorite video out of your older videos John! Mostly because I love Q*bert and also because your my favorite arcade channel on UA-cam! I'm a retro gamer and you and me like they the same type of video games. :)
Man, the knocker at Arcade Odyssey (they don't have the game on the floor right now) is crazy loud. Startled the hell out of me first time I played.
The game is great fun, Gottlieb made some rather nice arcade games.
the only arcade game i ever completely mastered. could play indefinitely on one quarter. learned all the nuances on my brother's coleco vision which had q*bert and was an exact replication of the arcade q*bert. thank you for posting...brings back some great memories of that early 80's game room experience...damn i miss those days...!!!
I couldn't play indefinitely but I could play for a very long time. The only thing keeping me from playing indefinitely was because of how the color changing works on levels 5 onward. I would do fine most of the time but, every now and then, there wouldn't be a disc in the right place for me to change that last cube to the finishing color. I would be out of sync. When this would happen, I would depend on suicide or Sam to actually help me complete it. 9 times out of 10, I could complete a level 5+ level with no problem though.
Wow! What a basement! That's awesome.
I absolutely love watching your arcade videos! You know what would be cool? The next time you have a party and your arcade is rocking, Post it! Nothing like seeing people having fun and a full arcade to boot!
I never played this when i was a kid, now I want to go back and play games i passed up when i was younger. so I came here to see how to play, great video. game looks great!
You know, I've never seen or played a Q*bert in person. I am aware of the machine but just figured it wasn't very good. Obviously I love the theme! Just watched the video... wow, that's crazy. The flipper placement is bizarre!
If you like cool speech synthesis, you should listen to Kraftwerk
@Casper1563 Zoo Keeper video will be coming and soon!
True enthusiast. So much good info/ history on the game!
Miss ya John. Just got my qbert working and in the Mack Attack Arcade
Also, I played it at Fireside Roller Rink in Schaumburg, IL. :)
Awesome! THANKS, BRO!!!!!!!
Your review videos are completely awesome, blkdog7! When you said something about selling some, can you get me Mad Planets, and Gyruss one day?
Played Q-Bert a lot at the Mini Mart on Grant Line Road in New Albany way back when. Very nice Q-Bert there 👍
Arcade games will never die
I have a strong suspicion that score loss is down to a dry capacitor as you also mentioned heating issues which is notorious for causing it
Great video, thanks for the upload. Wreck it Ralph reminded me of this game, can't wait to fire it up on my Bartop arcade soon.
Never delete this
the #1 arcade game i WANT!
John, about 6 years ago I said I have been programming in BASIC for over 30 years although I had a 15-year hiatus after 2000 when I discovered a game creation app when my HP Pavillion was just months old. After I discovered the Raspberry Pi, as I was tinkering with RISCOS I stumbled into a programming language, BBC BASIC. Today I got Raspberry Pi 400 home computer, named after the Atari 400 from the 1980s in suffix alone. I installed BBC BASIC SDL 2.0 on it. After learning new things with it, guess what I am writing?
Nice video. And now, I have some notes: As was said, Gottlieb only really had this one successful arcade game after making pinball games from as early as the 1930s. Second, just as Williams Electronics diversified by investing in Bally/Midway and eventually moving on to slot machines, Gottlieb had corporate parents at one point in Coca-Cola (hence the development of a game based on Columbia Pictures' "Krull", and then doing business later as Mylstar Electronics). Third, what's even worse is that Q*Bert was more of an American creation than Pac-Man.
Thanks for the plug for my baby--- BTW, the @!#?@! marquee was produced for games going out on test--- we hadn't yet come up with a name for the noser.
Whoa! Is this really Jeff Lee? Wanna come on my podcast Arcade Outsiders next Tuesday to talk about Q*Bert? Please?
Huh?
Two things that I just noticed: 1) that qbert had the word cube 2) that qbert is kinda shaped like a Q (with eyes and feet)
@SquallOrnitier Not sure what you mean! I have posted three videos in the past three weeks!
both my parents worked for Gottlieb in Northlake Il. which later became Premier Technology in Bensenville Il. this was sitting in the house along with Krull , Us vs. Them , 3 Stooges , Black Hole , Jacks to Open . was very lucky in my childhood as the arcades would give my father free handfuls of tokens everytime he would deliver a cabinet to the arcades. if you ever want to sell Q-Bert , lemme know
I used to love Q*bert. Awesome review.
absolutely awesome, I would love to own some classic arcade games, just wish I could find a great place to purchase them :) great videos, you now have a new sub, thank you for the great vids
ThePoolSharkWizard AWESOME! Thanks for subscribing!!! MEANS MUCH!
Hey, I used to play this game in the corner store years ago.
How come this Qbert doesn't fall off the edge when he dies like the original?
A friend of mine played this game for 38 hours off one quarter before.. his name is Lauren Clegg, Hopewell Virginia
That is dope
@Retro91 game review Nope because he had a shit load of extra men.. Not a lie at all
@Retro91 game review Just because you suck at it doesn't mean he did.. I'm sure that you could probably find it online somewhere because it even made the news...
I use to think there was ball inside the machine because it sounded like a real ball falling when you fell off. I always wondered how they made that sound.
Cool game. I can understand it being way more playable the way the controls are set up on your cab. The game is way to confusing on the d pad on the NES.
Riz2336 i tried to play this game on my desktop computer and i kept forgetting which way was what with my arrow keys and accidentally jumping off the edge.
Nice to see you're rocking the "profanity" banner John. Q*Bert has been my favorite ever since I was a little kid and I still have my stuffed Q*Bert and used to have the little plastic toys, but a house fire melted them all, I'll go check eBay for em'.
I'd love to play more of it, but I get to the third stage and I can't advance further. Plus knowing to get the highest scores is marathoning the game for 50+ hours.
No thanks.
Q*BERT DOES INDEED ROCK!
👍
they have mini heat sinks for ram chips and stuff like that to keep ur games board cooler andlast longer
That's a cool Cade man I just bought a Qbert cab for myself
I first played this game when it was brand new, and I became good at it.
great John! :)
Does your electricty bill suck?
I love emulation but you just can't beat this. Arcade machines when they were each truly their own unique machine. Joystick on a slant and that knocker; awesome!
You have a great basement there and your hard work really shows, love it.
Ha! I should, shouldn't I? I guess their names really stuck with me. :)
Nice! Another great classic :-)
I’m definitely having this game in my basement.
Awesome Arcade xD I used to have this game on the Amiga 1200, loved it. No pinball knocker though ^_^
You should try Faster Harder More Challenging Q*Bert on MAME. In that game the harder rules of changing the blocks are applied much earlier in the game, and there's a bunch of new stuff, like Slick and Sam being able to "lock" or even "dual-lock" the blocks until a Coily or a new enemy called Q*Bertha steps on it. There's also a cool bonus round after Levels 2 and 5.
I didn't notice Q*bert had sound effects in its attract mode. You should turn it on to join in the symphony of attract modes in the basement. :D
Doug Thompson Yeah, most games have attract sounds.I am very selective about which ones I turn on. It can get VERY annoying. :)
I used to play this game in high school. It took a couple weeks, but I figured out the pattern after 4 I believe. The longest game I had was almost 34 hours before I succumbed to fatigue. My favorite arcade game of the 80's.
Btw, is that root beer tapper, or beer tapper next to it?
I love this game!
And now: this old video arcade game machine has a horizontal hold problem. I can tell by the black bar/line zooming by.
That’s not the game, it’s the refresh rate of the camera
@MushroomZeroArt What's going on is that I've seen these brand new video arcade game machines at the east San Jose Tully Rd. Chuck E. Cheese's Pizza Time Theater. 🎥 😋 👌 😍 😜 😄 🎥
I grew up in Northlake in the 80's , moved to Roselle for high school. small world !
Jon, you're the boss--that arcade of yours rules!
LOVE THIS FILM !
2:01 So basically they were going to call the game "At Exclamation Point Hash Tag Question Mark At Exclamation Point"
BTW, I ready somewhere that there's actually a tape recorder inside the cabinet that makes Q*bert's voice.
By the way, do you make the full review video of Zoo Keeper you have at the beginning of the video
Have you heard a movie called pixles?
I Love it
A classic arcade just opened in my area and I'm determined to get the high score on this game.
Yes, I have seen Wreck-it Ralph! Great movie.
I’ve seen it, too. It was amazing.
Thanks? :)
I must play this game now! Never played before, lol, never knew it was from 1982... Guess I'll have to get the 8bit NES port.
So how do you solve the overheating problems? Does that only happens in certain machines?
My first video game experience ever was Q*Bert on a 2600 Junior on a black & white television. No joke. THAT was difficult, especially when you're like five years old :-P
i wonder if the game "lights out" was inspired by q*bert
Space. The final limitation.
Seems like there should be some way to have a Neo-Geo approach to this problem. Like some kind of switcher that makes multiple game boards fit into one console so that, say, all those Nintendo arcades could fit into one cabinet.
I saw Qbert on wreck it Ralph :D such a cute character
Am I the only one who noticed some burn-in on your screen?
hey have you seen the movie Wreck-it Ralph? It takes place in an arcade and when the arcade closes the poeple in the video games can go to one game to another. it might change the way you think about arcades
Yep, I have.
34 hours? Are you kidding me? Wow! It's Bud Tapper.
Hey John, have you ever heard of, played, or owned the companion to the Q*bert video arcade machine: Q*bert the pinball machine? Gottlieb produced it in 1983 and it has this crazy figure-eight layout.
Here's a partial link to what I'm talking about.
/watch?v=6B_BGvD33Ac
I used to have the board game of Q*Bert
I can't believe how many games you have... that is a lot of money there dude.. and they all WORK? damn !
Yes, it's a lot of hard WORK. :)
How did you get so many games? How much were they?
hey great review, did you ever try to get the world record and put in on twingalaxies.com
oh that game is so addictive..
I have a little table top game of qbert. Its fun!
I have a mini arcade version of this. No not the old vintage one although it was awesome (And I did have that at one point) I'm talking about arcade style like what you have here but miniature
How much for the Game of Q*Bert?
BTW , have you ever heard of Caveman from Gottlieb ? was a rather unique table for it's time. check it out
You have the Most Awesome Basement in the Universe! Where's it At?
great game!
I played the hell outta Q*bert on Coleco ;)
Haha for the longest time I thought Q-Berts speech bubble full of gibberish were curse words censored
Too good!!!!
Slick is the green guy with shades. Sam is the one without.
where do you get these games
Use their names! Coily, Ugg & Wrong-Way, Slick & Sam. Not "the snake". One christmas back then I had Q*bert board game, story book, game watch, pajamas, stuffed animal, and the little figure. I was in heaven.
the playstation one revamp of this they changed the playing field as the game got on, got bigger had gaps in the middle etc..
4:15 Gameplay Begans
Q*Bert is owned by Sony since they bought Q*Bert from Gottlieb when Columbia bought Gottlieb
You know how the thumbnail had tjc that is my real name initial
Where did you buy this?
+Marco Pizarro-Silva Craig's List!
How big is your basement?
+Thomas Dickensheets I dunno. Not too big.
That is totally badass that at 2:59 there is a high score with the initials BMW! Those are the same initials I use in video games, though my first name does not start with B. This is a great game, and you have a sweet cabinet!
Yes
Ball:(hits Q*bert on head)
Q*bert:@!#?@!
My favoite game
of the game Fix-it Felix JR? yeah i know, i wish i could play it
Yep. He’s actually in the bonus round in Fix-It Felix, Jr. That’s at the end of the movie.