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* SerialNumbersFiledOff: Orion Software's early PC port is called "J-Bird". Q*bert is replaced with a bird, some enemies with cats, the discs with wings and so on.
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* SerialNumbersFiledOff: Orion Software's early PC port is called "J-Bird". Q*bert is replaced with a bird, some enemies with cats, the discs with wings and so on.on.
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* FanNickname: Coily is sometimes known as Carrot Ends (alternately spelled Carrot Ens) because the ends of him look like two pink carrots rather than the head and tail of a snake and the noise he makes sounds like "carrot ends, carrot ends..." in the Atari 2600 version.
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** In a lesser example, the "Q*bert Classic" mode of ''Rebooted'' deletes all of Q*bert's speech samples from the original game, and also most of the game's music cues. It's been suggested that the former was an act of [[{{Bowdlerise}} bowdlerization]], to remove any profane-sounding speech samples... which they still managed to mess up, by leaving Ugg's and Wrongway's speech samples in, at least one of which can sound quite sweary.
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** In a lesser example, the "Q*bert Classic" mode of ''Rebooted'' deletes all of Q*bert's speech samples from the original game, and also most of the game's music cues. It's been suggested that the former was an act of [[{{Bowdlerise}} bowdlerization]], to remove any profane-sounding speech samples... which they still managed to mess up, by leaving Ugg's and Wrongway's speech samples in, at least one of which can sound quite sweary.sweary.
* SerialNumbersFiledOff: Orion Software's early PC port is called "J-Bird". Q*bert is replaced with a bird, some enemies with cats, the discs with wings and so on.
* SerialNumbersFiledOff: Orion Software's early PC port is called "J-Bird". Q*bert is replaced with a bird, some enemies with cats, the discs with wings and so on.
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Find me someone who's actually cried at Q*Bert on NES and I'll give you my kingdom.
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** In a lesser example, the "Q*bert Classic" mode of ''Rebooted'' deletes all of Q*bert's speech samples from the original game, and also most of the game's music cues. It's been suggested that the former was an act of [[{{Bowdlerise}} bowdlerization]], to remove any profane-sounding speech samples... which they still managed to mess up, by leaving Ugg's and Wrongway's speech samples in, at least one of which can sound quite sweary.
* TearJerker: The [[DownerEnding ending]] of the NES version, where after all that effort put into beating the game Coily sneaks up on and kills Q*bert, it's hard not to cry.
* TearJerker: The [[DownerEnding ending]] of the NES version, where after all that effort put into beating the game Coily sneaks up on and kills Q*bert, it's hard not to cry.
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** In a lesser example, the "Q*bert Classic" mode of ''Rebooted'' deletes all of Q*bert's speech samples from the original game, and also most of the game's music cues. It's been suggested that the former was an act of [[{{Bowdlerise}} bowdlerization]], to remove any profane-sounding speech samples... which they still managed to mess up, by leaving Ugg's and Wrongway's speech samples in, at least one of which can sound quite sweary.
* TearJerker: The [[DownerEnding ending]] of the NES version, where after all that effort put into beating the game Coily sneaks up on and kills Q*bert, it's hard not to cry.sweary.
* TearJerker: The [[DownerEnding ending]] of the NES version, where after all that effort put into beating the game Coily sneaks up on and kills Q*bert, it's hard not to cry.
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* 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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* EarWorm: ''Rebooted'' only has two themes and the "Stage Clear" theme will never leave your head.
* GoddamnedBats: Slick and Sam.
* GoddamnedBats: Slick and Sam.
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Not YMMV
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* 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.
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** In a lesser example, the "Q*bert Classic" mode of ''Rebooted'' deletes all of Q*bert's speech samples from the original game, and also most of the game's music cues. It's been suggested that the former was an act of [[{{Bowdlerise}} bowdlerization]], to remove any profane-sounding speech samples... which they still managed to mess up, by leaving Ugg's and Wrongway's speech samples in, at least one of which can sound quite sweary.
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** In a lesser example, the "Q*bert Classic" mode of ''Rebooted'' deletes all of Q*bert's speech samples from the original game, and also most of the game's music cues. It's been suggested that the former was an act of [[{{Bowdlerise}} bowdlerization]], to remove any profane-sounding speech samples... which they still managed to mess up, by leaving Ugg's and Wrongway's speech samples in, at least one of which can sound quite sweary.sweary.
* TearJerker: The [[DownerEnding ending]] of the NES version, where after all that effort put into beating the game Coily sneaks up on and kills Q*bert, it's hard not to cry.
* TearJerker: The [[DownerEnding ending]] of the NES version, where after all that effort put into beating the game Coily sneaks up on and kills Q*bert, it's hard not to cry.
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* 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.
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* AccidentalInnuendo: the game is ''supposed'' to say the words "Hello, I'm turned on" when powered up.
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* AccidentalInnuendo: the The game is ''supposed'' to say the words "Hello, I'm turned on" when powered up.up. It didn't cross the minds of the developers that the phrase could be taken a different way.
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* AccidentalInnuendo: An unusual aversion; the game is ''supposed'' to say the words "Hello, I'm turned on" when powered up. Due to the limitations of the speech chip however, it ends up mostly sounding like the unintelligible gibberish spoken elsewhere in the game.
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* AccidentalInnuendo: An unusual aversion; the game is ''supposed'' to say the words "Hello, I'm turned on" when powered up. Due to the limitations of the speech chip however, it ends up mostly sounding like the unintelligible gibberish spoken elsewhere in the game.
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* AccidentalInnuendo: An unusual aversion; the game is ''supposed'' to say the words "Hello, I'm turned on" when powered up. Due to the limitations of the speech chip however, it ends up mostly sounding like the unintelligible gibberish spoken elsewhere in the game.
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* PortingDisaster:
** While ''Rebooted'' was well-received on the mobile side, the console ports have notoriously unreliable controls, which can make it very easy to accidentally steer Q*bert off the side of the course.
** In a lesser example, the "Q*bert Classic" mode of ''Rebooted'' deletes all of Q*bert's speech samples from the original game, and also most of the game's music cues. It's been suggested that the former was an act of [[{{Bowdlerise}} bowdlerization]], to remove any profane-sounding speech samples... which they still managed to mess up, by leaving Ugg's and Wrongway's speech samples in, at least one of which can sound quite sweary.
** While ''Rebooted'' was well-received on the mobile side, the console ports have notoriously unreliable controls, which can make it very easy to accidentally steer Q*bert off the side of the course.
** In a lesser example, the "Q*bert Classic" mode of ''Rebooted'' deletes all of Q*bert's speech samples from the original game, and also most of the game's music cues. It's been suggested that the former was an act of [[{{Bowdlerise}} bowdlerization]], to remove any profane-sounding speech samples... which they still managed to mess up, by leaving Ugg's and Wrongway's speech samples in, at least one of which can sound quite sweary.
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so bad it is horrible is Flame Bait
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* SoBadItsHorrible: ''Rebooted'' had potential but ends up coming off as nothing more than a quick, unpolished cash grab.
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* EarWorm: ''Rebooted'' only has two themes and the "Stage Clear" theme will never leave your head.
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* GoddamnedBats: Slick and Sam.
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* GoddamnedBats: Slick and Sam.Sam.
* SoBadItsHorrible: ''Rebooted'' had potential but ends up coming off as nothing more than a quick, unpolished cash grab.
* SoBadItsHorrible: ''Rebooted'' had potential but ends up coming off as nothing more than a quick, unpolished cash grab.
