QIX

[james2464]

That version looked like an utter failure, like few people would risk putting in an entire Lincoln of quarters on it.

I don't remember if the NGB version had "sparks" or a difficulty level, and the sound effects were far superior. I mean, when the player finished a filled area, it did a short pling. When the "spring" touched the player's line, it did a slightly longer pling, it was my favorite sound. Otherwise it was "muzak" a lot like an amateur dance song remix ROFL.

The "slow" drawing really had no point for me with sparks around, I mean, I would never play the original game even if I got 100 chances for one quarter. Leave it to an expert mode. Intermediate then is the "spring" moving as the program stands now, and beginner have it move more slowly and the player is disallowed to use "slow" command. That's so he/she becomes more comfortable playing the game.

I thought it was 2/3, but 3/4 is difficult for sure. The "spring" suddenly could move sideways while a player tries to reach an edge of the screen. It happened to me too often on NGB...

I've only ever played the original arcade game as shown in that video.   As a kid I loved it!   But then again arcade games were still kind of new so it was all fascinating to me.   The sound effects in this game didn't bother me back then, but it's definitely rough.   I guess they didn't care much about it.   At the time I think most of the arcade was pinball machines and full of noise.

Anyway it's not for everyone but I'm having fun trying to emulate it so far.   I'll look around for the other versions of this game and check out those better sound effects.