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11-30-2014, 05:10 PM
http://forum.digitpress.com//images.eurogamer.net/2013/articles/1/7/1/9/4/4/2/setting-the-stage-the-actor-who-made-an-arcade-classic-1415686358483.jpg/EG11/resize/300x-1/format/jpg/1719442.jpgThe last step of minting the 1982 arcade classic Q*Bert was the name. The developer, Warren Davis, had the pyramid, the character, the springs and fluffy foes all programmed. All it needed was a title. So Davis and his colleagues at Gottlieb Amusement sat around a room tossing out potential names.
"Hubert", someone bravely put forward on a whiteboard.
Another Gottlieb employee erased the H and replaced it with a C. "Cubert". Given the game's stages set on a pyramid of cubes, the team knew they were onto something here.
Read more… (http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2014-11-15-setting-the-stage-the-actor-who-made-an-arcade-classic)
"Hubert", someone bravely put forward on a whiteboard.
Another Gottlieb employee erased the H and replaced it with a C. "Cubert". Given the game's stages set on a pyramid of cubes, the team knew they were onto something here.
Read more… (http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2014-11-15-setting-the-stage-the-actor-who-made-an-arcade-classic)