Qix
Original title: QIX - The computer virus game
Platform: Commodore 64
Gametype: Undefined
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In this game, you guide a marker which must draw rectangles and other weird objects in order to claim your territory, and you can either draw these rectangles fast or slow. Drawing the rectangles using the "slow" method awards you the most points. Once a rectangle has been made, it will be colored in to show that you have claimed your territory. While drawing the rectangles, you need to watch out for Qix (pronounced "kicks"), a series of colored lines that crawl the screen. In addition to Qix, you also need to avoid the Sparks who travel around the border, as well as any lines that you have made, as well as The Fuse, who travels along the line that you are drawing. Once you have claimed enough territory, you proceed to the next level.

Alternate Titles
"Qix: The Computer Virus Game" -- Full title
"QIX: Classic arcade action in the palm of your hand!" -- Game Boy tag-lined title

Trivia

Qix indirectly lead to the name of Dr. Zoidberg, a character from the animated Futurama series. David X. Cohen, the creator of the series, created Zoid, a Qix clone, and eventually used that name for the character.

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Description from the packaging:

Your Mind Is Your Only Weapon…
What is Qix? (Pronounced Kicks.) Where did it come from? Where does it go when you turn off your computer? Can you capture Qix before it destroys you?
Qix is unlike any other game you've ever seen or played. It simulates a fictitious computer virus with a whirling multi-color helix, that lives inside the darkness of your computer- never resting.
The object of the game is to neutralize Qix by building a vaccine that contains the virus. You must trap the Qix within this carefully constructed space.

But think and act fast, because the Qix and its mutant offspring are trying to destroy you.
"Science is the knowledge of consequences and dependence of one fact upon another." - Thomas Hobbes, 1588-1679. (Leviathan)

"Qix is to video games, what Chess was to Kings…a classic mind game."
Over 9 Billion Possible Configurations.

Based on the Original Arcade Hit.
1 or 2 Player Action.
Original Rock Music Score.
Qix knows you're out there and it will find you… It's only a matter of time.
