Q*Bert was an orange fluffy ball with legs and a large ant-eater like nose, who lived in a pyramid shaped world made of coloured cubes. He liked nothing more than painting all the cubes of the pyramid the same colour, which he did by jumping around the cubes which made them change colour when he landed on them.

Trying to stop him were a number of enemies including a coiled snake and a bouncy ball, who if they caught Q*Bert would cause him to utter an expletive by way of a speech bubble of the form @!#?@!. He would then plummet off the bottom of the screen.

Q*Bert was an arcade game released by Gottlieb in 1982, and was one of their most popular games. An interesting fact about the prototype arcade cabinet is that when Q*Bert fell off the pyramid, a plunger was supposed to strike the inside of the case to make it sound as if Q*Bert had fallen inside the cabinet!

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