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Where Are They Now: Q*Bert

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the fame-is-fleeting dept.

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."

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  1. wow.... by necromaedian · · Score: 5, Insightful

    the 5 seconds it took to skim that site and decide it was a total waste of time was total worth having to look at that bloody ad that popped up for /. referrers. thanks!

  2. Q*bert....... by jigg_e1 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Forget Q*bert, whatever happened to dig dug??

  3. !LOL by Pilferer · · Score: 5, Insightful

    "Two guys who worked on SNL and the Conan show ..." .. as what, janitors? I'm sorry, but this just wasn't funny. Not even a little. If it really took two people to write this, then it's a sad, sad day for geek humor.

    Now THIS is funny. Well, sort of. More worthy of front page then this trash, though!

  4. You Had To Be There In Person by visionsofmcskill · · Score: 2, Insightful

    SNL nowadays is barely funny on TV, and in text isnt worth the reading the two pages this one took. What happened to /. editing?

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  5. PC clones? by abischof · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I rather liked Q*Bert, and I've been trying to find a freeware clone for the PC (win32, in this case), but I just haven't found any (and, no PC Bert isn't really applicable since it's just DOS game). Any suggestions?

    Along those same lines, I'm also a big fan of arkanoid. Any recommendations on PC clones there? I've already discovered the excellent DX-Ball 2 but I've beaten all the included levels (and extra levels aren't free).

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  6. FYI... (re: "comedy", and crap) by bscott · · Score: 5, Insightful

    "Two guys who worked on SNL and Conan" - possible translation - two guys who fielded phonecalls for SNL and fetched coffee on Conan... I know people who've WRITTEN for both shows, and there's a huge number of hangers-on who work there just for the resume credit.

    "InsideJoke.TV" is, in my experience, one of a number of groups who spam the standup comedy newsgroup (and others) with pointless drivel a few times a week. I dunno how they got on Slashdot... I don't know from Slushfactory.com, perhaps they have some decent stuff elsewhere on the site, but like several previous posters, I don't have the time to go look for it.

    If you have to TELL people how funny you are, you aren't.

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  7. Re:what does the * stand for anyways? by bm_luethke · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Well, technically "." by itself requires something to be there, so if you want nothing your out of luck. Also if you want multiple things your screwed. ".*" is a better anything you want.

    Though in formal languages the kleene star means ".*"

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