I met the Q*bert Guy in Brookfield the other day. Which is an impolite way to introduce you to Warren Davis.
“I was a programmer on that one when the original programmer was fired,” he said, scanning the room for more. “Oh, and there’s Narc, our first 256 color system. I wrote the display system, Eugene wrote the operating system.” Between bursts of digital gunfire and gore, a screen reminded you: “Say No to Drugs.
Video game designer Warren Davis, who created Q*bert, at Galloping Ghost Arcade in Brookfield on Feb. 13, 2022. Q*bert — Gottlieb’s solitary arcade industry blockbuster — was Davis’ first success. We found three Q*berts along a back wall of Galloping Ghost, sitting beneath framed fan art of the game. The landscape is a floating tiled pyramid, and the goal is to hop on each square before you run into pogoing snakes and cascading balls. That’s the whole game. Though at the dawn of video games, it was enough.
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