Live Q-bert

1988, Age 6

One year my parents got new carpet, and for awhile the old carpet was rolled up and setting out on our patio in stacks. My brother and I (and our best friends) found this a perfect setting in which to play pretend Q-bert. I'm pretty sure I never actually played the game Q-bert, but I was somehow familiar with it, at least enough to provide context for jumping up and down between levels of our "pyramid." I always enjoyed finding ways to transfer game settings into real life (unfortunately, my reality/fantasy line problem convinced me that all the fictional powers should come along with this, so I was often disappointed when I couldn't sproing great distances simply because we had a play Q-bert board).