Classic Game Room HD - Q*BERT for ColecoVision review

Classic Game Room HD reviews Q*BERT for the ColecoVision video game system from 1982! QBert is the MAN (or alien or whatever)! He hops from block to block and makes them change colors, he has an awesome nose and this game is funky fresh on the Coleco Vision. Solid graphics, excellent gameplay and an affordable price make QBert on the Colecovision an arcade retro gamer's dream. This Qbert review has gameplay footage from Q*Bert showing the excellent arcade conversion that trumps the Atari 2600 cartridge. Classic Game Room HD is the only retro and modern game reviewer reviewing Colecovision games in High Definition. If you like old school games, you need to jump on the Classic Game Room awesome-wagon. Qbert is a coin-op classic from the 80's that remains fun and addictive to play today.

[scarosone]

Colecovision was a beast back then. This was the 1st game I ever bought with my own money. Still have my colecovision, still awesome.

[culpit]

I loved playing Q-bert on my Colecovision back in the 90's. I wished I could get a chance to play its sequel Q-bert's Qubes though. Thank you for bringing this memory back. :)

[ScrewAttackEurope]

How come some old arcade games are so highly revered throughout the years like this and defender.

But titles like Munch Mobile are virtually forgotten?

[pyramidhead]

first game system i ever played in my life, i swear those were the days

[Synthnode]

I remember loving this game as a kid in the arcades in the early 80's...and being able to progress thru the levels with ease. When I try to play it now, I can't survive long enough to enjoy it. Great game, though.

[NAJ]

Nice review. You should do one for the NES version of Q*Bert. That one is really good. I played it a lot as a kid, back in the day.

[NAJ]

I still hope Mark reviews Q*Bert for the NES someday, as I personally think that's the best home console port of the game. I think he'd like it a lot :)

[sonicmario]

The green guys' names were Slick and Sam, BTW. ;)

[forgiven]

The green guy's names are Sam&Slick acording to a book i used to have when i was a kid.

[hootyhaha]

This is gonna be sort of off topic. But Pac Man, and Q*Bert (along with all other games back then) had a Saturday Morning Cartoon. The Pac Man cartoons are now available for download on Xbox Live. I know, it's got nothing to do with Q*Bert . . but fans of this game still might be interested in the Pac Man cartoon. This review made me think of that just because it was all back around the same time / decade.

[stevenormandin]

In Quebec Canada, we had exactly the same game(Named Q*bert as well) a long time ago(In the 90's I guess) on a cable terminal named Vidéoway made by the north american cable distributor Vidéotron.We also had a game named Razzia, A game like Lode runner.

[JayArgonaut]

That's right, you just beat me to saying exactly the same thing! I had this on cart for the C64 and it was the best home version out of all of them.

The graphics are even better and the programmers made excellent use of the SID sound chip. You even hear a motif of the Tubular Bells song during bonuses. :)

[kevin]

Catching the green ball also freezes the enemies for a few seconds so they can't hurt you while you can keep hopping around.

[LouGojira]

Just so you know Mark, anything that is green in Q*Bert is vulnerable...so the next time you play you CAN go ahead and rip Sam's legs off and stop him before he makes it to the bottom of the pyramid (and ruining more of your tiles). For that matter, I noticed you dodging the green orbs too. Grab those as well; they're good for points.

[WyreWizard]

Tje green guy's name is Slick. In the arcade version, there were two of them, Sam and Slick. Slick wore sunglasses while Sam didn't. But in this version, its only Slick.

[Skriak]

Did you have the Atari expansion module thing?

[Guernicaman]

You can also use the SEGA Genesis controller on your Colecovision, but of course, you'll also run into the same keypad problem when starting the game.

[johnnyxsi]

I LOVED the ColecoVision. when I got it for my birthday many years ago, I was so excited. It was such much better than atari 2600 graphically. Q-bert was one of my favorite games.

[canadaguyca]

This game rocked!!!! It was mesmerizing

[janchapmana]

unfortunately slick isn't in the home games, only sam. this was due to memory limits. but the game still plays good. You are correct that Q*Bert can stop them and can touch anything green.