(Pic courtesy of GBDB.com)
Okay, so I bought Qix for Game Boy as well as Space Invaders on my latest purchase, which is also another Taito "classic" arcade game*. I picked it up for $3 as well, which was probably too much for this game. I'm playing this game on a Game Boy Advance SP (black), by the way. The first thing I don't like about this game is the colorization. Most of these original Game Boy games that are played on a GB Color or Advance get two or three basic "colors" that take the place of what was the monochrome look on the original Game Boy. Qix gets it all wrong, with a reddish and off-orange color.
The original Qix was a computerized marvel - so the redish/orange and yellowish color really is unnerving. I guess the game would be okay on the original GB, but even then, the shallow game play that will only last potentially less than three minutes. The only thing cool about Qix is it's computer-ish "-tron" sounds. Also included is a link-cable version to probably hide the fact that this game has nothing to offer. There's a reason you haven't heard of this version, and that's because it sucks. Especially when everything is red and yellow.
Final Score: 1 Keex, Kicks, Quix or however you pronounce it out of 4.
* I use quotations, because Qix was pretty low on the scale of classic arcade games.
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