Qix - Amiga - Gaming Memories And Review

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Published on July 10, 2021 5:56:32 PM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-TJeTdmHPg

Game:

Qix (1981)

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Review

Duration: 29:35

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The arcade classic comes to the Amiga, and was an American exclusive as well! The Amiga was the first of a number of late 80's upgrades of Qix to the home market. We'll read from the manual, show off some reviews from when the game was new, discuss strategies, and dive into some memories! Shown on actual Amiga hardware in its designed NTSC mode via a 4:3 CRT monitor.

My written review for Qix: https://shot97retro.blogspot.com/2021/07/qix-in-depth-written-amiga-review-with.html

*Corrections; I noted early ports on the Atari 5200 and Atari 8-bit computer lines, there was also a Commodore 64 port at this time, another port for the C64 came out later which I did mention. - I never discussed the on-screen acronyms CLM and THR, but with a funny clip I left in made it sound like CLM meant calm, referring to how the qix is acting. I believe it means claim, as in how much of the screen has been claimed, while THR is threshold, how much you need to claim to get through the level.

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00:00 - That thing is not calm
00:21 - Introduction
02:04 - "Pronounced kicks"
02:50 - Reading from the box
04:25 - Discussing gameplay
04:56 - Reading from manual/Sparx trap
06:56 - Review from Amiga Plus magazine
07:48 - Discussion on graphic patterns
08:14 - Comparisons with arcade and DOS
10:00 - Difficulty accurate to arcade, perhaps a bad idea, perhaps not
11:40 - Review from Compute's Amiga Resource
13:00 - Personal goals
13:47 - Gaming memories with sister
14:06 - Comparison with Gameboy version
15:37 - Computer Gaming World review
16:30 - MIT/Harvard/Stanford strategies
19:05 - Ad and review from Amiga World
21:12 - Don't use the buzz words seriously
22:03 - New mechanic in level 7
22:57 - Puff piece on Taito from Commodore Magazine
23:43 - Comparison with NES version
24:36 - News of Taito from Amazing Computing /Shady Discovery
26:56 - Amazing Computing review
28:00 - Final thoughts
29:16 - NSlate
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