Let's take a trip to the creative side of your brain...

[ApolloBoy]

Let's see if you can make mockups of the following games on the 2600! Now, the mockups HAVE to be believable. Keep them within the 2600's limitations.

 

Here are the games:

 

Ballblazer

Choplifter

Star Raiders II

Robotron 2084

Karateka

Food Fight

Gremlins

The Dreadnought Factor

Qix

Super Pac-Man

Galaga

[privateers69]

ok here's my rendition of super pac man if Atari had given anouther programmer the same or less time to do it.

 

just added a cape..

[VidGameKing]

lol!

[Zloch]

Here's my take on Qix...

 

Sean

[Zloch]

Here's my take on QIX.

 

Sean

[Zloch]

By the way, how do you even pronounce "Qix"?

 

Is is kicks or quicks?

 

Dunno.

 

Sean

[MegaManFan]

Kicks.

[VidGameKing]

quicks

[surfnmadness]

Kicks in midwest states.

[Raijin Z]

There's no U, so it's definitely "KIX".

[VidGameKing]

okay, kix it is, but mind you, I'm a master at corn-flakes, and captain crunch!

[Room 34]

I distinctly remember seeing Qix on an episode of Starcade and Geoff Edwards unmistakably pronounced it "KICKS." That's definitive enough for me!

[Nukey Shay]

The letter Q is pronounced kw.

Therefore, it's pronounced kwix.

[MegaManFan]

No no no. The letter itself is pronounced "keh-yoo" but that doesn't mean it phonetically has a "ke-wuh" sounds UNLESS followed by a U, and not always in that case either. For example, you say "keesh" for the word "quiche," not "kweesh."

[CPUWIZ]

Since Qix isn't in there, this will have to do.

 

http://dictionary.reference.com/search?r=2&q=qux

[Nukey Shay]

Aw...let's call the whole thing off.

[Room 34]

No! We must argue to the death!

 

MMF is right... Q by itself sounds like K. There are very few words in English that have a Q by itself but in those cases, it's a K sound.

 

Of course... the makers of Qix (was it Taito?) were just messing with us I am sure... pronounce it either way. I think both ways could be intended as an enticing game title. (Get your "kicks" playing a "quick" game of Qix. Or something. )

[SS]

By the way, how do you even pronounce "Qix"?

 

 

 

 

I’ve come to pronounce it as “KICKS” (partially due to a thread in RGVC a few years ago that addressed the same question). However, in the early 80s, a friend and I simply bypassed English language pronunciation rules altogether and called the game “GIX”. We played a hell of a lot of “GIX” back in the day.

[Nukey Shay]

The funny thing is that the "kicks" pronounciation didn't even occur to me until seeing it there. As a kid, everyone that I've known called the game "quicks". I guess the mentatility was that since it began with Q and not K, it must have the "kw" sound (as most common words beginning with Q do).

[ApolloBoy]

You guys are getting off-topic...>_

[King Atari]

Gremlins

 

Uh, the 2600 has it's own Gremlins. Do you mean the 5200 version?

 

I'll work on a mock Karateka tomorrow.

[JB]

Of course... the makers of Qix (was it Taito?) were just messing with us I am sure... pronounce it either way.  I think both ways could be intended as an enticing game title.  (Get your "kicks" playing a "quick" game of Qix. Or something. )

Isn't the arcade spec'ed as having a speech synthesis chip?

Shame Taito didn't use it. This debate could be put to rest.

 

I've always said it "kwics" or something to that effect.

[ApolloBoy]

Gremlins

 

Uh, the 2600 has it's own Gremlins. Do you mean the 5200 version?

 

Oops! Wasn't really paying attention there... Let's just say Gremlins will be replaced by Caverns of Mars.

[King Atari]

I'll work on a mock Karateka tomorrow.

 

Aw screw it, can't get it to look right .

[NE146]

Since the arcade game came out, I've always pronounced it "kicks"