Q*bert Qubes - Videogame by Mylstar

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Q*bert Qubes

Name: Q*bert Qubes
Manufacturer: Mylstar
Year: 1983
Type: Videogame

Class: Wide Release
Genre: Platform
Monitor:

Orientation: Vertical
Type: Raster: Standard Resolution
CRT: Color

Conversion Class: Gottlieb
Game Specific: Q*bert Qubes Pinout

Number of Simultaneous Players: 1
Maximum number of Players: 2
Gameplay: Alternating
Control Panel Layout: Single Player
Controls:

Joystick: 4-way (up-left, down-left, up-right, down-right)

Sound: Amplified Mono (one channel)

Cabinet Styles:

Upright/Standard

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Q*bert Qubes Description

Q*bert Qubes was produced by Mylstar in 1983.

Mylstar released 18 different machines in our database under this trade name, starting in 1983.

Other machines made by Mylstar during the time period Q*bert Qubes was produced include Hill Climb, Faster Harder More Challenging Q*bert, M.A.C.H. 3, Screw Loose, and Games I, The .

Qbert jumps from cube to cube, causing the cube to spin and change to a different color. The cubes have a different color on each side. Every level has a different cube pattern.

Q*bert Qubes - KLOV/IAM 5 Point User Score: 3.19 (5 votes)

Personal Impressions Score: 3.28

     Overall 'Like': 3.40
     Fun (Social): 2.60
     Fun (Solo): 3.40
     Collector Desire: 3.60

Technical Impressions Score: 3.10

     Gameplay: 3.80
     Graphics: 3.00
     Originality: 2.80
     Sound/Music: 2.80

Personal Impressions and Technical Impressions each account for half of the total score. Within the Personal Impressions category, "Like" carries a little more weight than the other factors.

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Cabinet Style Weights and Measures

Type
Upright/Standard

Conversion

This game runs on IQbertI hardware. The only difference appears to be an EPROM upgrade and the disabling of the knocker circuit.

VAPS Arcade/Coin-Op Q*bert Qubes Census

There are 11,774 members of the Video Arcade Preservation Society / Vintage Arcade Preservation Society, 9,265 whom participate in our arcade census project of games owned, wanted, or for sale. Census data currently includes 155,180 machines (6,604 unique titles).

Common - There are approximately 31 known instances of this machine presumably owned by our current and past members. More are likely owned by non-members. 17 of these machines are owned by our active Q*bert Qubes collectors. And of these, 9 are original dedicated machines, 2 are conversions in which game circuit boards (and possibly cabinet graphics) have been placed in (and on) another game cabinet, and 6 are only circuit boards which a collector could put into a generic case if desired.

For Sale - There are 2 active VAPS members with extra Q*bert Qubes circuit boards for sale.

Wanted - There is one active VAPS member currently looking for Q*bert Qubes.

At any given time, our active members are listing on VAPS on average of 4,400 games they are looking for, and 3,600 games for sale.

This game ranks a 12 on a scale out of 100 (100 = most often seen, 1=least common) in popularity based on census ownership records.

This game ranks a 5 on a scale out of 100 (100 = most often wanted, 1=least common) in popularity based on census want list records.

Rarity and Popularity independently are NOT necessarily indications of value. [More Information]

Technical

The main processor is a 8088 CPU. The dedicated soundspeech board uses a 6502 CPU.

Legacy

Manuals

Instruction Manual 30 Pages, 3.7 MB File.

Foto-Finder® (books)

Encyclopedia of Arcade Video Games, Kurtz (ISBN 0764319256): Page: 117; Color photo; Price guide:

Video Clips

Q*Bert Qubes Arcade Game Review - Multi Q*Bert 10 in 1 Arcade Mod - Qbert Cubes

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Additional References
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The Arcade Flyer Archive (TAFA): Q*bert Qubes Flyer #2390

eBay Listings

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Q\*bert Qubes

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