Wednesday, November 30, 2005

Look Out Coily, it's....

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Startling new information has surfaced that greatly increases our knowledge about that bipedal, pyramid-jumping nose-without-a-face, Q*bert. The following was gleaned from a recently unearthed
instruction manual:

1. He is given to bouts of foul language.

"When the red ball starts rolling, get Q*bert out of its path or it will squash him! If this happens, the swear bubble lights up..."

#%*@" swear bubble?! Does Q*bert have an anger management problem? Could it be his lack of arms? Or perhaps it's due to the company he keeps:

2. He shares the pyramid with a character named Sam.

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"Even though Sam can't catch Q*bert, he's still a very crafty fellow.
He changes the cubes' colors back again so Q*bert's got to
retrace his steps."


How counterproductive! Sam needs to get on-task and assist his fellow pod-hopper in pushing the margins of pyramidical dividend returns.

3. Coily is dangerous.

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"He's the snake with the perilous pounce!"

(We already knew that, but the alliteration was irresistible)

Despite these findings, Q*bert is still a rather mystifying fellow.
What drives him, for instance, to compulsively hop all over
pyramids? Maybe he was an Egyptian Pharaoh in a past life.

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Fakie Agents have managed to secure rare photos of Q*Bert's
feeding behaviour. Here he appears to be raiding the pantry
of the Burgertime chef:

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While previous studies have shown that he reproduces via parthenogenesis, it appears that Boz Schnoz may be actively
courting Strawberry Shortcake.

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And here we have irrefutable evidence of Q*bert's assisting
NORAD in helping defend the Earth from the encroachment
of hostile Beings from Space:

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But then there is this chilling photo of the Bitmap Biped
apparently using his prodigious proboscis against the
hapless citizens of the freedom loving world:

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Could Q*bert have turned to evil, or is this some kind of plot
on the part of Coily to sully his arch-foe's reputation?

Fakie Agents are working on the story and will report back with
any further findings.

10 comments:

Unknown said...

Q-Bert...I'm having flashbacks of the 1970s, but I don't remember why I know about Q-bert. Space Invaders was my all-time favorite video game as a child, and I used to spend a lot of my vacation time down at the Jersey shore playing it, but I don't remember where I know Q-bert from. Was that an Atari game??

Was Q-bert really dating Strawberry Shortcake?

Is it true that Q-bert killed Jamie Sommers?

Anonymous said...

Q-Bert is just a poor man's Crystal Castle.

Anonymous said...

Q*bert didn't kill Jamie Sommers, he only sneezed on her with a Bitmap Virus that turned her into a living video game character.

Gyrobo said...

How did you make that last one? That's just good photo editing.

Happy December, fellow bloggers!

flatlander said...

Photoshop?! Agent Rock-Steady risked being turned into a Living Video Game by Q*bert's deadly proboscis to obtain that photo!

Fakiegrind does not use photo-retouching processes in our journalism; only good ol' fashioned intrepid-ness.

(Ok, sometimes we use the ol' airbrush to touch up the wrinkles on our avatars--which, strangely, seem to age while our Agents retain their youthful vigor. Weird eh?

Oh well, back to life replication chamber.

Gyrobo said...

As is Canadian tradition, I think you are obliged to eventually post something in French.

flatlander said...

D'accord;

Moi, j'aime á nourrir les castors le sirop d'érable.


Translation:

"Me, I like to feed the beavers maple syrup."

So, like, there you go, eh!

Unknown said...

Rad

flatlander said...

I make no claim for my tranlation abilities.

It's probably more like:

J'aime á nourrir les castors avec le syrop d'érable.

And I guess it's "eh?" not "eh!" eh?

Anonymous said...

It's definatly Coily who's behind the murder! Q*Bert may have a foul mouth, but not THAT foul! Besides, look at how big he is! Obviously, this is a cruel Coily creation!

Nice work on the Eygeption Q*Bert! That should be made into a real game! Pyramids, snakes...doens't it all fit together?