Where Are They Now: Q*Bert

An anonymous reader writes "Two guys who worked on SNL and the Conan show cover the drug-addled history of Atari's classic blobish-looking character, Q*Bert."

Comments

Re:what does the * stand for anyways?

[The Bungi]

Whatever you want.

Or at least that's what the Perl regex guide said.

It all makes sense...

[Anonymous Coward]

Now we know why SNL sucks so bad.

some of my earliest memories

[JeanBaptiste]

involve alcohol, weed, and q-bert... throw in river raid and hunt the wumpus....

Re:Q*Bert was NOT from Atari!

[stratjakt]

At best it's all confusing, with the boom bust boom bust rollercoaster ride that video games took in the 80s... Namco buys Atari who buys Midway who buys Namco who buys Hasbro who sells Konami who makes out with Capcom on the couch while Sega watches... etc etc etc

It's easier just to say Atari did everything until the 90s, then Nintendo did everything till the late 90s when Sony started doing everything.

Doesn't seem to meet /. criteria...

[dokutake]

This is neither "news for nerds" nor "stuff that matters."

it works for boy bands, too...

[Stephen VanDahm]

what does the * stand for anyways?
"Whatever you want."

It works for boy bands, too.

$ ls -l *NSync
-rw-r--r-- 1 scv users 0 Jan 25 02:42 Fuck_NSync
-rw-r--r-- 1 scv users 0 Jan 25 02:45 I_Hate_NSync
-rw-r--r-- 1 scv users 0 Jan 25 02:44 Kiss_My_Ass_NSync

Re:You Had To Be There In Person

[geekoid]

"What happened to /. editing?"

nothing.

yup

[pizza_milkshake]

i can back up the claim that the writers of that story worked on SNL... the article was unfunny and it went on too long.