( ) is a 1981 puzzle video game developed and published by Taito for arcades. Designed by husband and wife team Randy and Sandy Pfeiffer, Qix is one of a handful of games made by Taito's American division (another is Zoo Keeper). At the start of each level, the playing field is a large, empty rectangle, containing the Qix, an abstract stick-like entity that performs graceful but unpredictable motions within the confines of the rectangle. The objective is to draw lines that close off parts of the rectangle to fill in a set amount of the playfield.
Game data
- Released
- 1990-04-13
- User rating
- 0.00 / 5
- Genres
- Action
- Platforms
- PC, Nintendo 3DS, Game Boy, NES, Apple II, Commodore / Amiga, Atari 5200, Atari 8-bit, Atari Lynx
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Game details · IGDB
Draw boxes to claim as much screen as possible without getting in the path of the "Qix" and "Sparx". Draw slower for more points and hope that you have enough coins. Simple but very addicting!
- Released
- 1981
- Genres
- Puzzle, Arcade
- Platforms
- Arcade
- Game modes
- Single player, Multiplayer
- Developer
- Taito
- Publisher
- Taito
Key facts
- Video game.title
- Qix
- Video game.image
- Qix Poster.png
- Video game.caption
- North American arcade flyer
- Video game.developer
- Taito
- Video game.designer
- Randy PfeifferSandy Pfeiffer
- Video game.series
- Qix
- Video game.genre
- Puzzle
- Video game.modes
- Single-player, multiplayer
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Wikidata facts
- Image
- Qix Arcade.jpg
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- publication date
- 1991-01-00
- name in kana
- クイックス
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- Gameplay
- Reception
- Accolades
- Legacy
- Sequels
- Clones
- Notes
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( ) is a 1981 puzzle video game developed and published by Taito for arcades. Designed by husband and wife team Randy and Sandy Pfeiffer, Qix is one of a handful of games made by Taito's American division (another is Zoo Keeper). At the start of each level, the playing field is a large, empty rectangle, containing the Qix, an abstract stick-like entity that performs graceful but unpredictable motions within the confines of the rectangle. The objective is to draw lines that close off parts of the rectangle to fill in a set amount of the playfield.
Qix was ported to the contemporary Atari 5200 (1982), Atari 8-bit computers (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).