History Videogame / QBert

Other threats come from "Ugg" and "Wrong-Way", a purple pig and gremlin team who bounce along the side of the cubes. Additionally, Q*bert has to deal with "Slick" and "Sam," two green creatures who turn cubes back to their original color when they hop on them. Q*bert can eliminate Slick or Sam by jumping onto them.

!!''Q*bert'' provides examples of:

-->''[[TheStinger "Bye-bye."]]''

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%% * GettingCrapPastThe Radar: Due to overwhelming and persistent misuse, GCPTR is on-page examples only until 01 June 2021. If you are reading this in the future, please check the trope page to make sure your example fits the current definition.

* MortonsFork: So Coily's chasing you, and you accidentally went down to a low corner with no platform. Coily's right above you. Three choices await:
** Stay put, in which case Coily pounces. @!#?@!
** Leap right into Coily. @!#?@!
** Leap off the pyramid. [[RunningGag @!#?@!]]

* CanonImmigrant: Q*bert's girlfriend Q*tee was originally created for the aforementioned ''Saturday Supercade'' adaptation, but appeared in the mobile installment ''Q*bert: Rebooted'' afterwards, a full ''31 years'' after her last appearance.

* AbhorrentAdmirer: Q*Bertha in ''FHMC Q*Bert'', to the extent that she takes on Coily's role in the latter levels and will cost Q*Bert a life if she catches him. Averted in her later appearance in ''Q*bert Rebooted'', where she gains a fair bit of AdaptationalAttractiveness and is shown as more of a DistaffCounterpart.

Of the many, ''[[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/qbert_crash.JPG many]]'' home ports of ''Q*bert'', the MSX and NES versions were developed by Creator/{{Konami}}. The MSX version, however, starred a different-looking Q*bert that was more pudgy and reptilian, similar to the design of the dragons from ''Videogame/BubbleBobble''. Its gameplay was based on ''Q*bert's Qubes'', but it was perhaps more valued for the [[OldSaveBonus bonuses it gave to other Konami games when the cartridge was plugged into the second slot]].

In 2014, ''Q*bert Rebooted'' was released. It contains the original arcade game, and a new game with 3D graphics. The major change is that Q*bert walks in hexagonal shapes instead of cubes. The revival of the character was motivated by his appearance in ''Wreck-It Ralph'', and he would later gain another prominent appearance in film in 2015's ''Film/{{Pixels}}''.

* FakeDifficulty: When playing ''Rebooted'' on a Playstation console, don't expect Q*bert to go in the direction you think you're pointing him towards. Sometimes he'll even go the completely opposite direction as well, especially after falling off the stage, costing 2 lives in less than a second.

** When Q*bert collides with an enemy, he has a speech bubble that reads "[[SymbolSwearing @!#?@!]]".[[labelnote:*:]]an approximate rendering due to font restrictions; the @'s represent spirals.[[/labelnote]]

-->''"Bye-bye."''

Dedicated upright cabinets for ''Q*bert'' contain a pinball "knocker" (a solenoid that creates a knocking sound) inside the cabinet whenever a character falls off the pyramid, simulating the sound a character might make if it actually fell to the bottom of the cabinet. In some units, this sound is created by a bean bag inside the case rigged to fall. This resulted in more of a "thud" than the distinctive "pop" created by the knocker-equipped cabinets.

* AbhorrentAdmirer: Q*Bertha in ''FHMC Q*Bert'', to the extent where she takes on Coily's role in the latter levels and will cost Q*Bert a life if she catches him. Averted in her later appearance in ''Q*bert Rebooted'', where she gains a fair bit of AdaptationalAttractiveness and is shown as more of a DistaffCounterpart.

* BottomlessPits: Audibly averted. If Q*bert, Coily, or Q*Bertha jump off the pyramid, they fall until either hearing a "splat" or the arcade cabinet's knocker.

''Q*bert'' was one of the characters featured on ''WesternAnimation/SaturdaySupercade''. The game has a follow-up called ''Q*bert's Qubes'' and an unreleased sequel called ''Faster Harder More Challenging Q*bert'', a case of InWhichATropeIsDescribed. A home sequel, ''Q*bert 3'', was later released for Super NES. In 2012, Creator/{{Disney}} released ''WesternAnimation/WreckItRalph'', which gave Q*bert a prominent role in the film. He also has a brief appearance in its sequel ''WesternAnimation/RalphBreaksTheInternet''.

* DummiedOut: None of the UsefulNotes/ZXSpectrum ports had the safe-to-touch [=NPCs=], as it would not have been feasible to colour them green.[[note]]It might have been possible, but only by precise interrupt-driven attribute switching in sync with the [=TV=] scan, which would probably have slowed down the game too much.[[/note]]. With the exception of ''Pogo'', most of them did not have Ugg or Wrong-Way either.

''Q*bert'' was one of the characters featured on ''WesternAnimation/SaturdaySupercade''. The game has a follow-up called ''Q*bert's Qubes'' and an unreleased sequel called ''Faster Harder More Challenging Q*bert'', a case of InWhichATropeIsDescribed. A home sequel, ''Q*bert 3'', was later released for Super NES. In 2012, Creator/{{Disney}} released ''WesternAnimation/WreckItRalph'', which gave Q*bert a prominent role in the film.

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: While most of Q*bert's (and Ugg's and Wrongway's) ruder-sounding speech samples seem to have ended up that way by accident, one of Q*bert's samples sounds a little too much like "Oh, shit!" for it to have been an accident.

* {{Gonk}}: Q*Bertha in ''FHMC Q*Bert''. She is an extremely obese member of Q*Bert's species with messy, hairs sprouting upwards on her head.

* ReptilesAreAbhorrent: Coily

* ShootTheShaggyDog: After all of your efforts getting Q*bert through the pyramids in the NES version, Coily catches up to and kills him.

* DifficultySpike: The final set of levels in ''Rebooted'' gets hit with this, especially near the end when you can expect ''four'' Sams to pop up at once and effectively undo all of your progress up to that point in the stage.

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''Q*bert'' was one of the characters featured on ''WesternAnimation/SaturdaySupercade''. The game has a follow-up called ''Q*bert's Qubes'' and an unreleased sequel called ''Faster Harder More Challenging Q*bert'', a case of InWhichATropeIsDescribed. A home sequel, ''Q*bert 3'', was later released for Super NES. In 2012, Creator/{{Disney}} released ''Disney/WreckItRalph'', which gave Q*bert a prominent role in the film.

* AbhorrentAdmirer: Q*Bertha in ''FHMC Q*Bert'', to the extent where she takes on Coily's role in the latter levels and will cost Q*Bert a life if she catches him. Averted in her later appearances, where she gains a fair bit of AdaptationalAttractiveness and is shown as a more conventional girlfriend character.

-> When Q*bert collides with an enemy, he has a speech bubble that reads "[[SymbolSwearing @!#?@!]]".[[labelnote:*:]]an approximate rendering due to font restrictions; the @'s represent spirals.[[/labelnote]]\\
When Coily goes off the edge, he gives an electronic cry.