Qix (pronounced "kicks") is an arcade game released by Taito America Corporation in October 1981. The objective of Qix is to fence off, or claim, a supermajority of the playfield. At the start of each level, the playing field is a large, empty rectangle, containing the "Qix"—a stick-like entity that performs graceful but unpredictable motions within the confines of the rectangle. Qix was ported to...
Developer
Nintendo, Atari, Taito, Takara, Novotrade, Knight Technologies, Alien Technology
Publisher
Nintendo, Atari, Taito, Takara, Telegames
Release Date
1990-04-13
Qix (pronounced "kicks") is an arcade game released by Taito America Corporation in October 1981. The objective of Qix is to fence off, or claim, a supermajority of the playfield. At the start of each level, the playing field is a large, empty rectangle, containing the "Qix"—a stick-like entity that performs graceful but unpredictable motions within the confines of the rectangle. Qix was ported to the contemporary Atari 5200 (1982), Atari 8-bit family (1983), and Commodore 64 (1983), then was brought to a wide variety of systems in the late 1980s and early 1990s: MS-DOS (1989), Amiga (1989), another version for the C64 (1989), Apple IIgs (1990), Game Boy (1990), Nintendo Entertainment System (1991), and Atari Lynx (1991).
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