That was a @!#!?@ good video.

The side by side comparison is vaguely reminiscent of qbert's pyramid in itself.

I never even heard of Q-Bert as a kid, I played a knock off on the Amstrad called Crazy Ebert. and that was it really. Also that Spectrum one, is that Horace there, rather than Q-Bert?

I heard that the original arcade machine of Q*bert actually had a little hammer mounted inside that would smack against the floor of the cabinet to make the sound of characters falling off the screen and landing to their death. I wonder if that's true.

That Spectrum version looks dire! I remember playing a game called Pogo (Ocean Software) on the speccy which was a Q-bert clone, and was way better than the one shown here.

To be fair, the ZX Spectrum port is most likely homebrew software and judging by the "title screen" with the standard input prompt also most likely written in BASIC.

When games were fun just pick up and play unlike today's games take an hour of just intro to get into the gameplay.

One of the few times the NES wasn't shafted with its port.

I was always annoyed in the arcade when the knocker at the bottom of the cabinet was broken and you wouldn't hear Q*Bert hit the bottom when you accidentally jumped off the map.

I think Q*Bert swearing is the most interesting thing about this game

Ahhh...one of those arcade background noises you can't forgot. So good to see the comparison of an authentic classic

Looking at almost all of the ports, the ones you claimed to be good really look and pretty good. I never thought you would review another classic like this one. An amazing job, well done. Cheers, Mark! :)

Ah, that Fami (NES in my case) port was always a curiosity of mine growing up. When I didn't know what to play I'd often toss in that cart.

One of those games I've tried to like, I feel like I should like it, but even back when it was a young game I couldn't get it...I thought it was just the controls on the ports, but then I found an arcade cab in about '86 and I was just as bad on that. I love Q*bert himself...Loved him in Wreck-it Ralph. @!#?!

I used to play the atari 2600 version like it was going out of style! So many marathons of that game with my brother. Thanks for this. I enjoy BOTP and chinese tech vids. Thank you!

I was actually thinking about how there hadn't been a Q*Bert Battle of the Ports earlier!! Fun fact: Q*Bert was actually available on one of Sky TV's pay to play Interactive services at one point. IIRC it was a straight port of the arcade version with completely redrawn graphics (I remember Q*Bert would do a little dance when he cleared a stage). Pac Man was on it too

When I was a kid, my friend had a Qbert arcade cab. I was so jealous

13:15 I dont know why but this is funny as hell to me

Here's an interesting thing to note when playing "Q*Bert": The Green Balls that drop from the stages are actually extra lives that you can collect (except in the BBC Micro version, that is), and you can even touch Slick and Sam in order to get rid of them whenever they appear on stage.

Back in the day I had a pretty good msx basic type-in version of qbert.

The PS1's blocky Q*bert model is so darn adorable I swear.

The ZX Spectrum. For when you want your eyes to bleed.

3rd to 6th gen consoles are my favorite port of this game.

Q*Bert Rebooted was the first game i ever played -PlayStation- When my dad gave me the controller i got confused on how to play but like pac-man it is simple when you play more/less than 4 minutes and i start to get used to the arcades controls the new android version is nice compared to rebooted version but not really, as the Sony 2020-2022 android version has the bland graphics and - style i felt like i was playing a rip off but hey at least you can still unlock an "bert" and also adds the arcade version a little bit now with 2017 Sony version it has the 3d feel unlike the 2020 feel had 12 bit feel and Sony version it also has the arcade mode but wait it even had great music! in 2020 Sony had different music it felt like pie in the face

Man, this game has been ported to everything! When I was young, I lacked the depth perception to play the isometric view arcade games like Zaxxon and Q-Bert. Took me a couple more years to finally get anywhere in both games, especially Q-Bert. I would constantly confuse left/right up/down and fall off the edge.

Q-bert is a tremendous game, once you are used to the joystick movements. i still remember turning my atari 2600 joystick so it was diagonal for ease of play racked up some serious scores on it..

Pretty interesting ports of Q bert cool video👍

The reason for the odd control mechanics for the Atari 5200 port is due to the necessity to hold the top fire button down in tandem to having the joystick pointed in the desired direction since it was so easy, with the lose analogue controller, to have it go where you didn't want it to. The 5200 port of Frogger had the same set up in addition to the option of using the keypad to move instead.

I remember that i played this game as a kid, but it was a flash game that wasn't called Q*Bert but it sure played like it. it was allright.

What's not to love about Q*Bert Mark? Such a cute little guy being harassed by a quirky snake that jumps off the stage for the heck of it. 8^) What I always like about Q*Bert Mark, is the fella curses. He was the original bad boy before it became the norm in Mature rated games. 8^) Nice work as always bro. Keep it up. Anthony...

the Atari 8-bit for the 400/800 was GREAT...controls responded good although you needed to rotate the joystick 45 degrees to have the button facing top but played almost identical to the arcade release

pogo was a great qbert clone on the speccy

The one thing i always found amusing (and a little bit creepy) about the 2600 version was that if you jumped on a disc whilst Coily was on one of the 2nd row of cubes, he would instantly warp to the top one and stop animating, awaiting the disc bringing Q*Bert to his demise!

!#$! I forgot how awesome the C=64 port was. I dumped so many hours into that game!!!!

One peculiar thing about Q*Bert's arcade cabinet was the use of a device that gave the machine a "knock" sound when Q*Bert fell off the playing field.

This was but one of many arcade games that was made into cheesy Saturday morning cartoons on TV back in the 80's.

The GBC one was first a homebrew game. Then the developer was found and asked to make the GBC version.

Holy ports, Batman ! Thats a lot of versions to cover. This one is a timeless classic, which fun can still be had today. The Arcade version is the best imo, but i also enjoy the PS1 overhaul. Nice coverage.

The Intellivison and Colecovision would be ideal for a game like this, since they have a numpad controller and using the corner buttons to move would be far less confusing than a control pad.

Here's a super classic, as a young energetic kid I never fixated myself enough with Q-Bert to understood the objective, lol...even though Q-Bert seemed to be at every worthy arcade parlor. Great video as always....and now I have to go check for Q-Bert Gameboy at the local Gamestores👍👍😀😂

14:08 Good mockery there, honestly I could care less if you missed a version or two. You most certainly belong on a "Best of Mr. Smith" compilation.

Parker Brothers also made a tabletop arcade machine and a MS DOS port using CGA graphics. There is also a Videoway port that was only available in Quebec. Unfortunately, the Videoway version is lost due to all software having to temporarily be downloaded in the machine via cable. It had faster gameplay but no animations.

I realise you only do official ports but Pogo on the ZX Spectrum was pretty good; the machine never faired particularly well with official ports, possibly because there were not that many British arcade games.

IMO the best Q-Bert game is Q-Bert for MSX, also made by Konami. But that one is kinda based on Q-Bert Qubes (even though its called just Q-Bert) so I guess that's why it's not featured on this video. But that game is not just a port of Q-Bert Qubes, is a souped-up version of it, very polished ,a lot fun to play and very challenging.

The arcade game had a speech option that made synthesized gibberish sounds. As far as I know not all the boards have it and I don't hear those sounds in your video. I don't have this board unfortunately, which is apparently a pain to maintain, so I don't know all the details here, but the crazy qbert voice is really what made the game unique imho.

I miss the MSX version... It was ported by Konami and it's a well known game. Regards

It's no surprise that you're showing me different Q'Bert video arcade game machine versions. Even the Atari 2600's version of Gravitar was poorly designed/made.

The VIC-20 version is an abomination. The machine is capable of so much more. I've a feeling this one was made by a kid in a bedroom for a one-off cheque...

Oh man, the Dreamcast version was one of the earliest games i remember ever playing, very nostalgic for me/// Though it always does remind me of a PC game demo I played back in the early 2000's (possibly earlier) with a similar goal of changing the color of the floor tiles, but if I remember correctly it looked very different and didn't have that pyramid layout. It felt more like playing a stealth game maybe? With a more zoomed in camera so you couldn't see the whole stage. I remember the player character and enemies being very fluffy, but that could definitely just be my love for fluffy things taking over my memories haha In all honesty, I could be misremembering all of this or merging a bunch of different games somehow! Anyway, I asked my parents for the full game for my birthday after I finished that demo, but they gave me Ms. Pac-Man: Quest for the Golden Maze instead because they could never find it (so I remember that game clearly as a disappointment-- not that I didn't have fun with it though). I remembered playing that demo again a few years back but couldn't for the life of me remember the title of the game, so I've been searching for it ever since with no luck... I've lost count of how many search terms and pages of google search results I've gone through over the years, and those thousand-page-long HELP ME FIND THIS OLD GAME threads-- geez, I used to have a lot of free time. Mentioning all this on the off-chance someone who might have any idea what I'm talking about sees this; it's been bugging me for so long! More relevantly though, I love this video series♡ Discovering a lot of old games from long before I was born, and even finding out some of the history behind those that shaped my childhood!

Someone made a homebrew port on the Sega Genesis called Mega Q*Bert. Haven't played it yet, but it seems interesting.

Endless ports of a beloved arcade classic and the nes is the best of the ports

Great video comparison; so many ports! I know you have plenty of hardware but do you actually test the game carts/CDs on real hardware or do you occasionally use ROMs/ISOs on emulators for certain systems?

If you think of the last part bert and say it for the letters, not ber. It is how I have always heard it, we are not in France.

13:16 LOL

I'm a simple man, I see a new BOTP video, I click like, waiting on those newer KOF BOTP videos Mark ;)

Your copy of the arcade ROM is missing the sound samples.

I'm catching up on some of your older content lad. 👍

I figured it out Q*bert is a baby Birdo.

Wow, sure there wasn't a version on stone tablets?

early 80's arcade ports are the most interesting

It appears Q*bert slimmed down for the Super Nintendo game.

A nice classic plattform game that I never played back then.A real shame that it wasn't converted to the Amstrad CPC.

There's a version Q*bert for iOS named Q*bert Rebooted.

Unfortunately the Dreamcast version of Q*Bert was really unstable on my modded Japanese console, you don't even get twenty minutes of play before it crashes. Which is a shame, I still keep an eye out for the NTSC Playstation version, there must be a few copies out there somewhere in the UK. All the Windows CE Dreamcast games were a bit rough around the edges and prone to crashing.

Well, you were right to question the Super Famicom port along with its inclusion; NTVIC released it first in the States as Q*bert 3. Still a good game with its trippy backgrounds and its 16-bit go go soundtrack.

I can only imagine what the behind the scenes outtakes of some of the bad versions of these games might be like...especially where controls are concerned

MSX had pretty good port by Konami for Qbert

I first played Q-bert on the Atari 2600. Thought it was a really good version.

love how the Hasbro arcade games are actually modern takes no the classic formula also like that they are on pc

Is that SG-1000 port even licensed or official? I always thought it was unlicensed, there don't seem to be any copyright notices on the title or anywhere else

5200 Q*Bert can’t look better than Atari 8-bit home computers because it’s the same. The hardware is only slightly different so they just changed the bare minimum to get to working and adapt it to the 5200 controller.

The Atari 7800 got a homebrew conversion called b*nq; nice conversion of the arcade classic. Have you ever tried Mad Planets? I hear that's one of Gottlieb's best lesser-known arcade games.

I'm so glad i never rented the SNES version of Q*Bert 3 omg it's so janky looking.

Another awesome vid. Played this so much back in the day. I swear the BB micro could have handled this game better.

Well some ports are missing here like apple ][ version, atari 7800 version (which is a homebrew) and Amiga version

Me:QBert=you:Arkanoid!

Are you planning to do "Donkey Kong Jr?" The Vic-20 version reminds me of a board game sortof.

I don't know what kind of MAME emulator you used for the arcade version, but it left out the pseudo-speech synthesis, which was a big part of the original arcade version.

The only successful video game from Gottlieb, a pinball company.

those sound effects (in the original version) are so ...shooter from the arcades like....phoenix o something like that...

The Q-Bert Version on the ZX Spectrum has got some German Sub-Titles. Pretty Nice. :-) But this Port could be better. Nice and good Review.

Hello mark the mobile phone java version is missing from your video

the out of sync audio could been a emulator issue..... But C64 is a great port as well many others seens great too.

This game pissed me off so much as a kid.

Don't know if it's ongoing, but I think there's some debate as to what Q*Bert (the character) is supposed to be.

the snes port is no different game, man, its an expansion, because it still contains all the original elements, much like donkey kong for the arcade and its expanded gameboy counterpart.

You missed the fantastic MSX Konami's Q.Bert, which is a great game. I know it's a different game, but since you included the SNES and PSX ports... 😀

The BBC Micro port looks like it's being played on Teletext

Somone took q bert's nose and put it on Yoshi and then painted him purple and gave him a bow

I came so early. Came Too early since there isn't captions. XD

Surprised you didn't put the modern PC remake on here.

The Atari 8 bit line were pretty decent for their time, may not be quite to the level of a C64 (although it has a faster CPU), but given its older by some 3 years, it does a good job. the SG-1000 version is quite impressive given the hardware is similar to a Colecovision, goes to show what a difference a programming team can make. was the DC version captured from VGA? it looks kind of blurry , does the game support VGA?

Not really sure why the enemy sprites move like that on 2600, there's nothing to stop them from moving like Q*bert does. I mean the VIC-20 lacks hardware sprites so you get that per tile movement without software sprites but that's not how the 2600 Player Object works. MO2/VP version is pretty good for what it is. ;) Not sure why every version didn't have control options given the odd rotation of the arcade joystick mounting.

14:08, um you are not save about that commentary because unfortunately you missed the Ms-Dos version, in my opinion is very impressive, but the sound effects well they are not good enough, you should check it out

What do you mean the Intellivision was never know to be a looker of a console? It was know for having far superior graphics than the Atari VCS and what do you mean there is no animation for Q*Bert? He moves around the board and changes his orientation depending on which way you move Q*Bert, plus unlike the Colecovision version they made a sound for him swearing after he got hit.

Yeah, really not fair to show a version for the Spectrum which was unfinished and therefore unreleased. What is there looks bad but given it was never finished we will never know if the programmers would have finessed things prior to release. if you want to see what q'Bert on the Speccy could have been like, check out Pogo by Ocean Software, a Q'Bert clone from 1984. As clones go it is pretty good.

You forgot to mention the MSX version made by Konami.

OMG, Q*bert!! Finally you make a good video

Oh, and also, there are sample files for the arcade version that you have to download separately, in case you didn't know. Hey, speaking of the arcade version, could you please send me a working ROM of the game? I normally look for ROMs on EmuParadise, but it's sadly not around anymore.

Wait? What? No MSX version??? WTH? It's a Konami classic for the system!