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Qix II: Tournament

Qix II: Tournament - Japanese Title

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Name: Qix II: Tournament
Developer: Taito

Year: 1981
Type: Videogame

Class: Wide Release
Genre: Puzzle
Monitor:

  • Orientation: Vertical
  • Type: Raster: Standard Resolution
  • CRT: Color
Conversion Class: unique

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

  • Joystick: 4-way (up, down, left, right)
  • Buttons: 2 [Fast DrawSlow Draw]

Sound: Amplified Mono (one channel)

Cabinet Styles:

  • Upright/Standard
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Qix II: Tournament 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!

Qix II: Tournament was produced by Taito in 1981.

Taito released 487 different machines in our database under this trade name, starting in 1967.

Other machines made by Taito during the time period Qix II: Tournament was produced include Alpine Ski, Colony 7, Fitter, Frog & Spiders, Grand Champion, Moon Lander, Balloon Bomber, Lupin III, Indian Battle, and Tri-Attacker.

Qix II: Tournament - KLOV/IAM 5 Point User Score: 2.30 (1 vote)

 Personal Impressions Score: 1.60

     Overall 'Like': 1.00
     Fun (Social): 1.00
     Fun (Solo): 3.00
     Collector Desire: 2.00 		Technical Impressions Score: 3.00

     Gameplay: 2.00
     Graphics: 1.00
     Originality: 5.00
     Sound/Music: 4.00

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

Game Introduction

This game is still the same hypnotic abstract challenge as the original, yet offers a reward an extra life to the skilled and patient players if they are savvy enough to sustain the nerve wracking tension of accumulating a 90 percentile bid. The key is to skirt the edges and use the draw buttons as little as possible while crafting a narrow crevice or two, allowing a yield of ninety plus percent. As far as is known, the extra life award may be monopolized as many times as possible.

Game Play

This game plays the same as the original, but with a few slight modifications. There is a bonus feature that awards an extra life if 90 percent or more of the screen is enclosed. This version also supports a different color scheme than its predecessor.

The mastery of Qix comes basically from the avoidance of the Sparx. These enemies only follow the territorial boundaries of the screen and the "Stix" drawn by the player's marker. Dodging the Sparx by drawing a small segment allowing them to pass underneath and follow the circuit of the Stix allows the player plenty of time for strategy. The patient Qix player will succeed whereas the haphazard or bold approach of drawing across huge expanses of empty board is typically an exercise in futility.

Miscellaneous

COPY OF: Qix

Qix II is more of an enhancement than a sequel.

VAPS Arcade/Coin-Op Qix II: Tournament Census

There are 12,133 members of the Video Arcade Preservation Society / Vintage Arcade Preservation Society, 9,623 whom participate in our arcade census project of games owned, wanted, or for sale. Census data currently includes 163,035 machines (6,848 unique titles).

Scarce - There are approximately 5 known instances of this machine presumably owned by our current and past members. More are likely owned by non-members. 2 of these machines are owned by our active Qix II: Tournament collectors. And of these, 1 is a conversion in which game circuit boards (and possibly cabinet graphics) have been placed in (and on) another game cabinet, and one is a set of circuit boards which a collector could put into a generic case if desired.

Wanted - There is one active VAPS member currently looking for Qix II: Tournament.

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

This game ranks a 2 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]

Trivia

The "Qix" was also called the "Helix" in the old arcade parlance.

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