QIX

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Published by

Atari, Inc.

Developed by

Taito America Corporation

Released

1982

Platforms

Amiga, Apple II, Apple IIgs, Atari 5200, Atari 8-bit, Commodore 128, Commodore 64, DOS, Game Boy, J2ME, Lynx, NES

Genre

Action

Perspective

Top-Down

Non-Sport

Arcade, Puzzle-Solving, Real-Time

Misc

Coin-Op Conversion

	MobyRank	MobyScore
Amiga	...	5.0

J2ME	...	...

Commodore 64	...	3.7

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Trivia

Qix indirectly lead to the name of Dr. Zoidberg, a character from the animated Futurama series. David X. Cohen, the creator of the series, created Zoid, a Qix clone, and eventually used that name for the character.

Contributed by Sciere

(119383) on Dec 19, 2007.

Mario and Luigi make a cameo appearance in the Game Boy version of Qix.

Contributed by quizzley7 (21320) on Feb 08, 2002.

With a VGA card or some EGA cards, a non-standard 16 color palette was used. If this mode was supported the program autodected it, otherwise the default EGA palette was used. Likewise in 4 color mode, if an MCGA or VGA card was detected a non-standard 4 color palette was used.

Contributed by Servo (51671) on Mar 22, 2001.

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