It’s a pretty accurate likeness of the original orange freak from arcade days gone by. For some reason, I wanted to call it a Q*bert Qake, but I’ll resist. Damn, I already said it. Stupid Q’s. I blame it on this.

One thing’s for sure, this cake will definitely last longer than my average playtime with the frustratingly difficult diagonal controls of the original arcade quarter-stealer.

P.S. Did you know that Q*bert was originally called Snots and Boogers? That so would not have made a good cake.

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The FireNes site is in Spanish; here is a not-too-terrific English translation. All you need to know is this: go to FireNes, click on “Install” (“Instalar” if you’re on the Spanish page and are feeling fancy), then relaunch Firefox. Go to the Tools menu and click on FireNes. It will pull up a menu of any game. Right click on the game to edit options and learn which keys to use.

You’re lucky I even wrote this post considering I’ve spent the last 3 hours “researching” the subject matter. And by “researching” of course I mean re-mastering Q-Bert and amassing coins in Mario-land- because they have a bunch of retro games on there in addition to the NES favorites.

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