Taito · 1981
Qix
High Scores
At a glance
- Manufacturer
- Taito
- Players
- 2 (2 simultaneous)
- Location
- Retrobotics Arcade · Vector Room
- Status
- Working
- Condition
- B
- Docs on hand
- Manual, Schematics
- Serial
- 127919
- Acquired
- 2024-12-03
About this game
Qix was released by Taito in 1981.
Description
Draw boxes to claim as much screen as possible without getting in the path of the "Qix" and "Sparx". Draw slower for more points and hope that you have enough coins. Simple but very addicting!
Trivia
The trick to scoring in this game is to isolate the Qix in a small section of the screen by building narrow "peninsulas" out of short quick segments. Then, once the Qix was fairly "trapped", bridging a small gap with a "slow" segment would result in almost all of the screen being filled with the red (double score) color and bonus for area over 75. It is possible to confine the Qix in as little as 1 or 2 of the screen.
Instructions
Draw boxes to claim as much screen as possible without getting in the path of the "Qix" and "Sparx". Draw slower for more points and hope that you have enough coins. Simple but very addicting!
This cabinet
Qix is the seventh cocktail game to call our collection home. This particular example is all original, and is absolutely MASSIVE.
We acquired this machine broken, in trade for servicing work on another machine. It needed a lot of work on the video section of the PCB set, as it was not generating colors correctly, nor was it working properly on the player 2 side.
The monitor still needs a little work, but that's a problem for another day.
Issues
No issues reported for this cabinet.