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Qix |
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Manufacturer:
Taito Year: 1981 Class: Wide Release Genre: Puzzle Type: Videogame Monitor:
Number of Simultaneous Players: 1 Maximum number of Players: 2 Gameplay: Alternating Control Panel Layout: Single Player Controls:
Sound: Amplified Mono (one channel) |
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DescriptionDraw boxes to claim as much screen as possible without getting in the path of the "Qix" and "Sparx". Draw slower for more points and hope that you have enough coins. Simple but very addicting!Know anything more about this game? Cabinet InformationThe upright version of this game has basic stenciled side graphics. The cocktail version has a rather large glass top with gold scripting on a black background.ConversionOther games that run on nearly identical hardware are Zoo Keeper, The Electric Yo-Yo, Space Dungeon and Kram. Those games use the same boardset as this game but have the addition of a coin processor board to prevent ROM swaps. A ROM hack exists to make those games run without the coin processor board, so there is a possibility that a conversion could be a straight ROM swap, except for Zoo Keeper which has an additional daughterboard to accommodate more ROMs.Scarcity in collections (VAPS.org)Very Common - There are 77 known instances of this game owned by one of our 900 members. Of these, 55 of them are original dedicated machines, 2 of them are conversions in which game circuit boards have been placed in another game cabinet, and 20 of them are only circuit boards which a collector could put into a generic case if desired.Of the 42,694 video games (3,154 unique) tracked by the Video Game Preservation Society, this game ranks a 48 on a scale out of 100 (100 = most commonly seen, 1=least common) in popularity based on ownership records. Wanted - There are 7 VAPS members currently looking for this game. Rarity is NOT necessarily an indication of value. Some common games show up as very rare here because collectors don't want them (they are common because arcade operatos might be sitting on tons of them in warehouses), while some fairly scarce games are grabbed by collectors every time they show up. Additionally, some games made in the last 5 years are still making money for operators and are thus not yet affordable to the typical collector. For a clue to value, compare how many people have this game vs. how many people want this game and then click on the eBay links to help determine an accurate price range. TechnicalThe sound PCB uses a TMS5200 speech synthesis IC. The main processor is a 68A09E.FixesIf the original NiCad battery is still on the PCB, remove it and replace it with a 3.6v rechargable, mounted away the board. The 4116 video RAM ICs often fail and since they are becoming hard to find, they can be replaced with modified 4164's.eBay ListingsClick here to automatically search eBay's Arcade, Jukebox, and Pinball categories for the Qix Videogame machine and items related to it.Click here to automatically search eBay's Arcade, Jukebox, and Pinball categories for machines and parts made by Taito. Alternatively, check out the IAM/KLOV custom report of the hottest coin-op machines on eBay, powered by Ace.com (updated throughoutthe day).
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