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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. Re:wow.... by Wavicle · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Oh good... it wasn't just me!

    What the hell kind of contentless uninteresting crap is that for the front page? I expected that to be filed under "stuff that isn't particularly interesting or funny" or a similar topic.

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    Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.
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  2. Re:wow.... by astrosmash · · Score: 5, Interesting
    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!
    And it's an Anonymous Coward post to boot, so we can't even harass the guy who submitted it.

    Oh well, here's an interesting tidbit about Q*Bert, from KLOV:

    ... Q*Bert and Reactor both use the SC-01 speech synthesizer, although in the case of Q*Bert, it is never used for any kind of coherent speech. All the speech is generated by making the chip play random sounds at a specific pitch.

    ... Part of this game's unique charm is the pure gibberish that comes out of the machine's speech synthesizer.

    Unfortunately, MAME (59) doesn't emulate the SC-01 speech synthesizer.
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