Q*Bert (1982)

The orange character who you control in this game is Qbert. The purple characters are your enemies and their names are Coily the spring-like snake, Ugg the pig-like creature and Wrong-Way the sharp-toothed creature who moves upside down. The friendly green creatures are named Slick the one with the dark glasses and Sam the one with the white bulging eyes.Q*Bert must jump diagonally around on a pyramid, changing the color of the blocks he lands on. Avoid most moving objects and characters while luring Coily, the snake, to his demise by jumping off the edge of the pyramid onto one of the flying disks. The game has nine levels of four rounds each.

Several early units were shipped with @!?@ on the marquee instead of Qbert, and is referred to as the "swearing" marquee. Part of this games unique charm is the pure gibberish that comes out of the machines speech synthesizer.

You must have Qbert hop on all the squares of each pyramid and change them into the color that they are required to be. Everytime Qbert is hit by something, he says "@!?@!". You must be careful and be sure that Qbert does not fall off the pyramid. As the attract mode explains, green is safe, nothing else is.

Orignal upright with Gottlieb raised letter coin door. Has mike doyle 10-1 Multi Gottlieb board installed. Press and hold both start buttons to switch games.