I like that he swore when he died. @!#&
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I always loved the 4-color disc Q-bert would utilize to get back to the top!!
That ad style is one of my favorites. I've always enjoyed arrays of selections--especially when it comes to video games. I think the box for the Atari 7800 had like 20 different screenshots from various games on the back, i spent a lot of time looking at them 🙂
I remember paying 100DM (~€50,-) for that one (vc2600) back then. Which would be like 5 trillion moneyz today, or something like that.
Ahhh sweet memories...played that sucker for months
Curiosity got the better of me. (100 DM = Deutsche Mark, Western German currency in 1986 when the vc2600 released) is € 112,69 as of today.
By far not the difference in inflation I suspected.
Does not sound as high as expected, but 100DM at that time sure felt like a LOT compared to what measly value 50€ have (basically none).
And it didn't feel that much just because I was a kid. My allowance was higher than what minimum wage is. I was a spoiled brat.
Being a Schilling kid, yeah, let's say 500 or even 1000 ÖS felt like a fortune. Found one of my grandmother's old snack bar menus from 1991 the other day. Small beer 5 Schilling and 50 Groschen. Holy Alcoholism.
Isn't that indexed from 2001, the last year the DM was a currency? It still seems low to me, I'd guess inflation to be about 1.5-2 times higher. But, the Atari VC2600 was from the early 80's, so that's a lot more inflation on top.
I think it's indexed from 1988, at least that's what I selected in the year drop-down.
I have the tabletop mini arcade cabinet of this, with a color VFD. Vacuum fluorescent display, the same type used in older microwaves or VCRs, in which you can still see all the unlit segments.
The sprites on the VIC20 version, wow.
Q*bert was one of the oh-so-rare games that transitioned from the arcade to the home and stayed pretty faithful.
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