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Re: Q*bert. A man and his grail... FINISHED !!!
« Reply #540 on: October 12, 2015, 06:41:15 PM »


Very beautiful made, a beautiful machine beautifully restored. 1A
I have a dream....that one day....all members of forum are the same....no matter how long ago they have joined, how many games they own or how many posts they wrote ;)

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Re: Q*bert. A man and his grail... FINISHED !!!
« Reply #541 on: October 12, 2015, 07:31:07 PM »
Played Q*bert with my 5 years old yesterday and of course, he made his Q*bert fall out of the grid.
When the knockers knocked, my kid naturally said: "Q*bert fell at the bottom of your cab" and he started looking down.

BUT OF COURSE!

That sound is clearly supposed to emulate the sound of the little characters falling from the grid all the way down and hitting the bottom of your cabinet.
I bet if you open the backdoor right after a game, you can see a few Coilys and Q*bert knocked down lying next to the power supply.
After all these years I finally got it :)

WHAAAAAAAAAT you're kidding right, you didn't know that ?  ;D ;D ;D

From Wikipedia:
Following a suggestion from technician Rick Tighe, a pinball machine component was included to make a loud sound when a character falls off the pyramid.[6][8] The sound is generated by an internal coil that hits the interior of a cabinet wall. Foam padding was added to the area of contact on the cabinet; the developers felt the softer sound better matched a fall rather than a loud knocking sound. The cost of installing foam, however, was too expensive and the padding was omitted.

I tried to recreate the original intended sound a bit by putting some foam on the knocker....

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Re: Q*bert. A man and his grail... FINISHED !!!
« Reply #542 on: October 12, 2015, 07:32:00 PM »


Very beautiful made, a beautiful machine beautifully restored. 1A
Thanks !!!!

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Re: Q*bert. A man and his grail... FINISHED !!!
« Reply #543 on: July 27, 2016, 12:23:11 AM »
I juist went through most of this thread.....kinda weird to read it all now....

But since so many people here contributed in some or other way to this cab, I think it's only fair I bring it to Eurocade 2016 :)

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« Reply #544 on: July 27, 2016, 01:22:51 AM »
I juist went through most of this thread.....kinda weird to read it all now....

But since so many people here contributed in some or other way to this cab, I think it's only fair I bring it to Eurocade 2016 :)

Nice, it was one of my favorite games last year  :)

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Re: Q*bert. A man and his grail... FINISHED !!!
« Reply #545 on: July 28, 2016, 02:20:28 PM »
 :spaceace: :spaceace: :spaceace:

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« Reply #546 on: July 28, 2016, 02:44:25 PM »
YES!!!!  :spaceace: :spaceace: :spaceace:

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Re: Q*bert. A man and his grail... FINISHED !!!
« Reply #547 on: February 16, 2017, 05:19:13 PM »
I am a really happy guy today. :)
Looking for Dragons Lair 1 or 2, Space Ace, Double Dragon, Robotron and yeah... a Shinobi would be cool, too!

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Re: Q*bert. A man and his grail... FINISHED !!!
« Reply #548 on: February 16, 2017, 05:33:40 PM »
Let me guess that you changed title from Q*bert-wanter to Q*bert-Owner?
In that case, congratulations, I would love a Q*bert, love the cabinet, cant really say that I like the game that much though  :lol:
Have never seen or played one IRL.
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Re: Q*bert. A man and his grail... FINISHED !!!
« Reply #549 on: February 16, 2017, 05:35:40 PM »
Let me guess that you changed title from Q*bert-wanter to Q*bert-Owner?


Oh.. yeah.. good that you reminded me about that. I guess I have to change my profile. :D
Looking for Dragons Lair 1 or 2, Space Ace, Double Dragon, Robotron and yeah... a Shinobi would be cool, too!

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« Reply #550 on: February 17, 2017, 09:47:27 PM »
I am a really happy guy today. :)

Me too, good that this game stays within the community, love laying it on Eurocade  ;D