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01/02/2005: The Adventures of Q*Bert!

An X-Entertainment Book Report: it’s one of my favorite literary masterpieces from kid-dom, starring the one and only Q*Bert. From Parker Bruddas in 1983, The Adventures of Q*Bert is the scattered tale of an orange hero, his green friends, their purple enemies, and the mountain of bricks. I’ve held onto this one since childhood (it’s one of the few that weren’t repurchased specifically to review), deciding it was finally time to massacre the binding and send it reeling through my half-broken scanner so I could waste the last precious hours of my holiday vacation writing about it. Ugg.


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Discussion Thread: 58 comments

Q*bert is one of the best games ever. a few test cabinets were sent out with the title !@#$% but later they opted for a title people could pronounce.

Ghosted by serpentor @ 01/12/2005 3:40 PM EST

Never played the game, but I HAD THAT BOOK! I cut my literary teeth on it, and never knew it was a video game until many years later. I too always remembered that gem of a line, "Hey you furball with the vacuum cleaner snout!" I also remember feeling a bit sorry for Ugg’s tail getting tied in a knot; I kinda had a way of feeling sorry for most cartoon characters who got really hurt. For a children’s book, and a soulless marketing tie-in at that, Parker Brother’s had some decent writers.

Ghosted by Andrew @ 01/15/2005 12:40 PM EST

I’ve also noticed that funky font which seems to have been really popular from the late ’70s to the late ’80s. I guess its ugliness couldn’t really be helped; a lot of things were ugly back then, especially cars. The hangover from the ’60s and ’70s was long-lasting. Matt, you would’ve liked it if you’d known my mom. She worked for Atari’s home computer division in the early ’80s and got for sort of a present an actual Battlezone arcade game sign, which my brother and I kept in our room for years. Of course, now I have no idea where it is. Probably still in storage from when we moved to our current house. But I don’t know how she got that Q-Bert book if it was published in 1983, since I think she left Atari in ‘82, right before I was born.

Ghosted by Andrew @ 01/15/2005 12:55 PM EST

Q-Bert was awesome (But what the did he eat)

Ghosted by Pigleg @ 01/17/2005 8:27 AM EST

Love the Q-bert background!:)

Ghosted by Krappy Kat @ 01/21/2005 10:02 AM EST

Look up Qbert Saturday Morning Cartoon on YouTube.

Ghosted by Anonymous @ 12/13/2008 3:12 AM EST

I’m sure it’s been brought up, but I don’t want to scroll all the comments.

The Q*Bert CBS Cartoon can be found on YouTube, one of them at least divided into 2 parts. Don’t tell CBS or they’ll take it off and take away our enjoyment.

Here’s an idea. Find out who to write at CBS and request they release the DVD like all the other retro cartoons are being released on DVD.

I know of a place that sells it, but it’s pirated and may not look great.

Plus I want to buy the real deal DVD if it gets sold ever.

Ghosted by Adam @ 03/31/2009 6:26 PM EST

thanks for the childhood memories. i had this book until my shithead cousins ripped it apart.

Ghosted by Rose @ 01/16/2010 7:09 PM EST

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