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Neil Tesser of Video Games also likened Q*bert to games released in the early 1980s in Japan, like Pac-Man and Donkey Kong, due to the focus on characters, animation and story lines, as well as the "absence of violence".

Video Games Player called it the "Funniest Game of the Year" among arcade games in 1983.

They stated that players could easily relate to Q*bert, particularly because he swore.

The authors of High Score! referred to Q*bert as "ultra-endearing alien hopmeister", and the cutest game character of 1982.

Randi Hacker of Electronic Fun with Computers & Games called it a "sterling adaption" Computer and Video Games scored the Atari VCS version 70% in 1989.

Antic magazine's David Duberman called the Atari 8-bit version "one of the finest translations of an arcade game for the home computer format", and Arthur Leyenberger of Creative Computing listed it as a runner-up for Best Arcade Adaptation to the system, praising its faithful graphics, sound, movement and playability.

Modojos Robert Falcon stated that the diagonal controls take time to adapt to on a cell phone with traditional directions.

IGNs Jeremy Dunham and GameSpots Jeff Gerstmann did not enjoy the motion controls and said that the game was a title only for nostalgic players.

In describing Q*berts legacy, Jeff Gerstmann of GameSpot referred to the game as a "rare arcade success".

In 2014, Q*bert makes a cameo appearance in the RadioShack Super Bowl XLVIII commercial "The '80s Called".

Doris Self, credited by Guinness World Records as the "oldest competitive female gamer", set the tournament record score of about 1.1 million for Q*bert in 1984 at the age of 58.

According to Mark Caplan, Vice President, Consumer Products, Worldwide Marketing & Distribution at Sony Pictures Entertainment, the release was motivated by "renewed interest in Q*bert, in part due to the cameo in the recent Wreck-It Ralph animated feature film".

He praised the variety of sound effects and the graphics, calling the colors vibrant.

Computer and Video Games magazine praised the game's graphics and colors.

Author John Sellers also called Q*bert addictive, and praised the sound effects and three-dimensional appearance of the graphics.

They criticized the lack of music, the removal of the characters Ugg and Wrongway, and the system's troubles handling the character sprites at a steady performance.

Softline was more critical, criticizing the Atari version's controls and lack of swearing.

Reviewers generally acknowledged it as a faithful port of the arcade original, but criticized the controls.

Airgamer criticized the gameplay as monotonous and the difficulty as frustrating.

Randi Hacker of Electronic Fun with Computers & Games called it a "sterling adaption" Computer and Video Games scored the Atari VCS version 70% in 1989.

Computer and Video Games gave the ColecoVision version a 72% score.

Gottlieb produced fewer than 900 units, but in Japan Game Machine listed Q*bert's Quest in their June 1, 1983 issue as being the second most-successful flipper unit of the year.

On November 28, 1983, Rob Gerhardt reached a record score of about 33 million points in a Q*bert marathon.

Doris Self, credited by Guinness World Records as the "oldest competitive female gamer", set the tournament record score of about 1.1 million for Q*bert in 1984 at the age of 58.

Her record was surpassed by Drew Goins on June 27, 1987 with a score of about 2.2 million.

Davis remembered to have started programming in April 1982, but the project was only put on the schedule as an actual product several months later.

When the game was first introduced to a wider industry audience at the November 1982 AMOA show, it was immediately received favorably by the press.

Parker Brothers first published a port to the Atari 2600, and by the end of 1983, the company also advertised versions for Atari 5200, Intellivision, ColecoVision, Atari 8-bit computers, VIC-20, TI-99/4A, and Commodore 64.

IGNs Jeremy Dunham and GameSpots Jeff Gerstmann did not enjoy the motion controls and said that the game was a title only for nostalgic players.

The first, titled Q*bert's Qubes, shows a copyright for 1983 on its title screen, whereas the instruction manual cites a 1984 copyright.

Airgamer criticized the gameplay as monotonous and the difficulty as frustrating.

Believing that the original game was too easy, Davis initiated development of Faster Harder More Challenging Q*bert in 1983, which increases the difficulty, introduces Q*bertha, and adds a bonus round.

However, the video game crash of 1983 depressed the market, and the game's popularity began to decline by 1984.

Gottlieb produced fewer than 900 units, but in Japan Game Machine listed Q*bert's Quest in their June 1, 1983 issue as being the second most-successful flipper unit of the year.