q*bert qollects quarters quite quickly

filed under: retro | video games

September 15th, 2007 post a comment (1) stumble it! digg it! by: technabob

I saw this poster over on eBay earlier today, and I thought it was really funny.

Designed as a promotional piece to encourage arcades to carry the classic game Q*Bert, somebody in the marketing department at Gottlieb got the bright idea to replace pretty much every letter they could with the letter “Q”. Isn’t that just Quazy?

For some reason all of those Q’s got me thinking about that SNL “Spelling Bee” sketch with Will Forte and Jack Black…

http://myspacetv.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=2312806

September 15th, 2007 post a comment (1) stumble it! digg it! by: technabob

tags:

1980s, arcade, classic, funny, gottlieb, poster, q, q*bert

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