Draw 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!
Qix was produced by Taito in 1981.
Taito released 486 machines in our database under this trade name, starting in 1967. Taito was based in Japan.
Other machines made by Taito during the time period Qix was produced include: Tri-Attacker, Speed Race CL-5, Moon Cresta, Defender, Western Gun, Part II, Alpine Ski, Colony 7, Fitter, Frog & Spiders, and Grand Champion
Name | Qix |
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Developer | Taito (Japan) |
Year | 1981 |
Type | Videogame |
KLOV/MOG # | 9185 |
Class | Wide Release |
Genre | Puzzle |
Monitor |
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Conversion Class | unique |
# Simultaneous Players | 1 |
# Maximum Players | 2 |
Game Play | Alternating |
Control Panel Layout | Single Player |
Controls |
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Sound | Amplified Mono (one channel) |
Cabinet Styles |
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Instructions | Qix Instructions Image |
Bezel | Qix Bezel Image |
Control Panel | Qix Control Panel Image |
Side Art | Qix Side Art Image |
PCB | Qix PCB Image |
Overall Like |
4.00 |
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Fun (Social) | 2.00 |
Fun (Solo) | 3.88 |
Collector Desire | 2.75 |
Gameplay | 4.25 |
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Graphics | 2.29 |
Originality | 4.63 |
Sound/Music | 2.50 |
Personal Impressions and Technical Impressions each account for half of the total score.
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The trick to scoring in this game is to isolate the Qix in a small section of the screen by building narrow "peninsulas" out of short quick segments. Then, once the Qix was fairly "trapped", bridging a small gap with a "slow" segment would result in almost all of the screen being filled with the red (double score) color and bonus for area over 75. It is possible to confine the Qix in as little as 1 or 2 of the screen.
The 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.
Other 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.
There are 15,025 members of the Video Arcade Preservation Society / Vintage Arcade Preservation Society, 9,573 whom participate in our arcade census project of games owned, wanted, or for sale. Census data currently includes 165,438 machines (6,956 unique titles).
Very Common - There are 231 known instances of this machine owned by Qix collectors who are active members. Of these, 182 of them are original dedicated machines. 6 of them are conversions in which game circuit boards (and possibly cabinet graphics) have been placed in (and on) another game cabinet. 43 of them are only circuit boards which a collector could put into a generic case if desired.
For Sale - There are 6 active VAPS members with a Qix machines for sale. There are 2 active VAPS members with a Qix circuit boards for sale.
Wanted - Popular - There are 24 active VAPS members currently looking for Qix. There is one active VAPS member looking for a Qix circuit board set.
This game ranks a 64 on a scale out of 100 (100 = most often seen, 1=least common) in popularity based on census ownership records.
This game ranks a 33 on a scale out of 100 (100 = most often seen, 1=least common) in popularity based on census want list records.
Rarity and Popularity independently are not necessarily indications of value. [More Information]
The sound PCB uses a TMS5200 speech synthesis IC. The main processor is a 68A09E.
If 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.
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