QIX

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Description

In this game, you guide a marker which must draw rectangles and other weird objects in order to claim your territory, and you can either draw these rectangles fast or slow. Drawing the rectangles using the "slow" method awards you the most points. Once a rectangle has been made, it will be colored in to show that you have claimed your territory. While drawing the rectangles, you need to watch out for Qix (pronounced "kicks"), a series of colored lines that crawl the screen. In addition to Qix, you also need to avoid the Sparks who travel around the border, as well as any lines that you have made, as well as The Fuse, who travels along the line that you are drawing. Once you have claimed enough territory, you proceed to the next level.

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Alternate Titles

• "Qix: The Computer Virus Game" -- Full title
• "QIX: Classic arcade action in the palm of your hand!" -- Game Boy tag-lined title
• "Arcade Archives: QIX" -- PS4 / Switch title
• "アーケードアーカイブス クイックス" -- Japanese PS4 / Switch spelling
• "クイックス" -- Japanese spelling

Part of the Following Groups

• Arcade Archives series
• QIX series
• QIX variants

User Reviews

Is it pronounced "Kicks" or "Qwiks", and who really cares?

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Critic Reviews

Digital Press - Classic Video Games	Atari 5200	Dec 10, 2003	9 out of 10	90
Pixel-Heroes.de	Game Boy	May 09, 2011	9 out of 10	90
Retro Archives	Atari 5200	Jan 21, 2018	15.5 out of 20	78
The Game Hoard	Arcade	Jan 10, 2020	5 out of 7	71
Digital Press - Classic Video Games	Atari 5200	Dec 10, 2003	7 out of 10	70
Retro Archives	Lynx	Jan 21, 2018	14 out of 20	70
Compute's Amiga Resource	Amiga	Dec, 1989	12 out of 20	60
Video Games	NES	Mar, 1991	55 out of 100	55
Happy Computer	Atari 8-bit	Jul, 1984	Unscored	Unscored
Computer Gaming World (CGW)	Amiga	Oct, 1989	Unscored	Unscored

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Trivia

1001 Video Games

The Arcade version of Qix appears in the book 1001 Video Games You Must Play Before You Die by General Editor Tony Mott.

Cameo

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

Color palette

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.

References

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.

Awards

• Electronic Gaming Monthly
  • November 1997 (Issue 100) - ranked #100 (Best 100 Games of All Time)

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