Q*bert is a 1982 arcade game published by Gottlieb, created by Warren Davis and Jeff Lee. Description In Q*bert, the player maneuvers the eponymous character around an isometric pyramid-like structure of tri-colored cubes. Q*bert's purpose is to hop around the tops of these cubes, changing every square to a specific color (e.g., from blue to yellow). Level design On early levels, the player's task is as simple as a single hop on each cube. Later rounds become more challenging: cubes have to be touched twice, cubes change back to the wrong color if they get hopped on again, etc. If Q*bert hops off the edge of the pyramid of cubes he falls to his demise. When this occurred, the original arcade machine cabinet would issue a mechanical sound produced by a pinball machine knocker. The level layout was inspired by another programmer, Kan Yabumoto, who had filled a screen with an Escher-lik