wait there until a ball has fallen before you start moving. If you are standing (!) on the uppermost field, Q*bert cannot get any balls on his head.

There is no solution in the narrow sense, but a few tips can be given: Furthermore, all other enemies disappear the moment when Coily lets out its death scream. If he has lured Coily near him, it will crash which gets you 10 times more points compared to the 50 points bonus at the end of each level for not used discs. But concerning the FX the arcade machine was unmatched.īy the Flying Disc Q-Bert gets safely to the top of the game area. Sound: Q*bert is not a really a treat for the ears on the C64, but this also goes for many other ports, that sound amazingly similar. Measured at the year of issue and the arcade machine original there is hardly anything to complain about in the graphical realisation, on the contrary, the funny sprites are well animated and also the choice of colours was successful which at that time was not a matter of course. Graphics: Although it might astonish in retrospective that there is hardly any difference to see in the C64 version compared to ports for older, technically inferior platform, one has to make clear to himself that this is a game from the beginning of the 80s. If he has made four rounds, he gets into the next level, whereby it gets more complicated to reach the target colour with rising speed and more and more enemies. They also must not get too close to Q*bert.Īs soon as Q*bert has painted all flat surfaces, you go to the next round. Finally also Ugg and Wrongway monster horizontally over the game area in a bizarre way. From the purple coloured ball hatches the snake Coily, which must be eliminated by a jump on a Flying Disc. From the top you permanently get a hail of balls, which Q*bert - except for the green 'Time Freeze' ball - must avoid touching in any case. Q*bert can only avoid this by catching them.Īlmost all other enemies are more dangerous than the two green scallywags Slick and Sam. Furthermore, there are destructive green men named Slick and Sam, which have nothing else to do than sabotage Q*berts work by changing the colour of the fields. In higher levels, the surfaces that are painted in the target colour are changed back when Q*bert enters them again. At the beginning of each level you get a demonstration of what the target colour is and how often Q*bert has to touch a field to reach this colour. When getting contact with the flat surfaces Q*bert changes their colour. In this arcade classic you steer Q*bert, a droll tot that looks like a ball with a trunk on two legs, over a pyramid-like built 3D game area. Level start: Q*bert demonstrates how the target colour is reached.

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