A jumping puzzle game.
In the game the player controls Q*Bert, a fuzzy, orange, limbless character whose main distinguishing feature is a very large, unproportional snout. The player had to hop Q*Bert around the tops of a pyramid-shaped arrangement of colored cubes using a four-way joystick, changing the tops of the cubes to a specific color. Various enemies and objects, which fall onto the pyramid from above and below, hinder by this task.
fig. 1. Q*bert
