ColecoVision Longplay [024] Q*Bert

[@stephenmanuel9860]

I'm loving the recent ColecoVision content! I had an ADAM home computer which played ColecoVision carts and this was a favourite alongside Donkey Kong Jr.

[@davemiller7633]

Me too.

[@danielstevenjanerico2530]

Thank You For The Game Memory Of Q Bert And Actual Play Of Game .. Born In 70's , 80's Gamer When Life Was Much More Simplified And More Patience ..

[@imal25]

TOTAL SCORE: 59,430 POINTS.

[@wizzgamer]

The colecoVisions processer was an absolute beast for the time more powerful than the NES and the same one used in the Sega Master System.

[@datacipher]

lol… oh the modern narratives that pervade gaming. In terms of actual cpu power there was little difference, in fact the z80 was arguably slower than the 6502 in the Atari 5200 - but really it would depend on the exact operations. They were quite comparable.

[@duwu1497]

ah, Q*bert and the classic one OwO

[@daktaklakpak5059]

Who remembers Q*Bert? I fking do!

[@georgeshelton6281]

It's amazing that there wasn't one "Robot Chicken" episode that features a spoof on Q'Bert. Especially when Q'Bert has a new girlfriend. It seems tha no matter how hard I searched: Still there wasn't one eposode thst has ever taken a poke at Q'Bert and his friends. Still I took it very seriously when I witnessed the Nintendo video game character Mario: First met Q'Bert.

[@marcoscnc6401]

The Gameplay and Sound of Q*Bert on the ATARI2600 is much better, the Coleco only wins in the most colorful graphics

[@darkworlddenizen]

How was coleco not more popular than Atari?

[@duwu1497]

Marketing, it was another times

[@granderwishes]

Atari had roughly 5 years on the Coleco? The video game crash came much sooner after the introduction of the Coleco? The Coleco sold an addon that allowed you to play Atari 2600 games as well, so Atari games got even more popular?

[@Dorelaxen]

@@granderwishes Not to mention those shit Coleco controllers. Not saying the 2600 one was all that great, but the Coleco ones would turn your hands into claws in minutes.

[@santoshumbertozunigaardon3315]

Oh! You're speak the 12!

[@JustWasted3HoursHere]

ColecoVision had the best arcade adaptations back in the day (before the NES came out). And even though it used the exact same video chip as the Texas Instruments TI-99/4a it always had superior games. On a real Q-Bert arcade machine, if you put a quarter in the machine and wait for the demo play to get to the part where the snake has just fallen off the side of the maze, press and hold the one player start button and his "falling" sound will go WAAAAAAAY down, much further than during gameplay. Found this out by mistake years ago. You can also do it in a MAME emulation of the game. (I just tried it to make sure, and it does.)

[@datacipher]

Nope not at all. The best adaptations were on the 5200 - I had both. Q bert is a toss up though. The 5200 has authentic colors as the screen progressed but lower resolution characters. Other games like centipede, defender, etc… well those weren’t even close. The 5200 version were far far superior. The initial cv lineup was the best. Later on the arcade ports got shoddy - still looked good but the framerste and play was awful. Both excellent systems though.

[@JustWasted3HoursHere]

@@datacipherI should have clarified that I meant the Colecovision, 2600 and Intellivision: The "Big Three" at the time. I did see on Wikipedia that the 5200 was its main competitor though. I never owned either one (we could only afford the 2600 at the time) so I'll take your word for it. It's interesting that the CV uses essentially the same graphics chip as the Texas Instruments TI 99/4a yet the CV's games were far better most of the time. Part of the problem was the way the TI's CPU was connected to the system. It was technically a 16 bit CPU (one of the very first), but severely crippled because of how it was done. There's an article on wikipedia about the issue.

[@icirios8599]

fun fact: e!?!