{"id":1507,"date":"2012-11-18T23:02:02","date_gmt":"2012-11-19T04:02:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rickandviv.net\/?page_id=1507"},"modified":"2012-11-18T23:02:02","modified_gmt":"2012-11-19T04:02:02","slug":"qbert","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.rickandviv.net\/index.php\/qbert\/","title":{"rendered":"Q*Bert"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Arcadeability: 5, Intv Funhouse review<\/a>, BSR’s Q*Bert info<\/a><\/p>\n

Follow this link<\/a> for info about the review system. 1 = Terrible, 5 = Awesome!<\/p>\n

I was pleasantly surprised by Q*Bert for Intellivision. I wasn’t too impressed by the screenshot graphics that I had seen, and after the disappointment that was Popeye<\/a> I didn’t expect much from another Parker Brothers port. But this game is really responsive to the controls and feels a lot like playing the original on my arcade cab.<\/p>\n

All the arcade elements appear to be here. The sounds as well as the music are very close to the arcade game. The graphics are a bit mono-chromatic on the various entities, but they are very passable. The wrong-way guys show up, the little green guy that changes the colors back is here, and of course coily is here too. I played it enough to get to level 2 (board 5) where you have to jump on all blocks twice to get them to the target color, so that bit of game play is here also.<\/p>\n

I give it an arcadeability score of 5. There isn’t much that could be better with this port.<\/p>\n

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Controls mapping<\/h2>\n

The controls mapping for this game is very simple. Movement controls and one action button are all you need for gameplay. There’s also the number of players and starting level – both of which require a “1” and “ENTER” from the keypad. However, the up\/down\/left\/right controls probably (maybe?) need to be reconfigured. On my cab, I have a dedicated Q*Bert\/Congo Bongo joystick that is rotated 45 degrees. So when I push diagonally up-right on my joystick, I’m really just pressing up. The other three directions are modified similarly. To use this joystick with the jzintv emulator, I need to map UP to disc direction northeast. Then DOWN becomes southwest, LEFT becomes northwest, and RIGHT becomes southeast. That really only affects 4 lines in a keyboard hackfile:<\/p>\n

\nRIGHT PD0L_D_SE
\nUP PD0L_D_NE
\nLEFT PD0L_D_NW
\nDOWN PD0L_D_SW\n<\/p>\n

With this modification made, I’ve saved off a qbert.kbd file to use for this game.<\/p>\n

How does it compare to the original arcade game?<\/h2>\n

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Pretty well! Definitely spot-on in terms of gameplay and sound. The graphics could probably be a bit better. I think I would have enjoyed having this cart back in the day. This is a very good port.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Arcadeability: 5, Intv Funhouse review, BSR’s Q*Bert info Follow this link for info about the review system. 1 = Terrible, 5 = Awesome! I was pleasantly surprised by Q*Bert for Intellivision. I wasn’t too impressed by the screenshot graphics that I had seen, and after the disappointment that was Popeye I didn’t expect much from […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1507","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rickandviv.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rickandviv.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rickandviv.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rickandviv.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rickandviv.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1507"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.rickandviv.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1507\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1523,"href":"https:\/\/www.rickandviv.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1507\/revisions\/1523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rickandviv.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}