I think it’s at 15 yrs old. I rarely played it myself, but both of my daughters loved it. So I mostly just watched.
Anyway, the game character would jump upward from one floating disk to another with a sound like “poink” with each jump. You would move up in levels as in most games. One identifier is that if you missed a target, the character would fall way down, screaming all the way.
It was a joystick game and the the movement of the stick was 45 deg off the normal.
It’s Q*bert.
Once I stopped thinking about it, the name popped into my tired old brain.
Weird game. I guess it still has fans though. I’ll see what my now grown girls think when I show it to them on my iPad.
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Yeah that was Q’Bert. I loved that it had some sort of ‘kicker’ that would thump the bottom of the console when he ‘hit’.
But man, after playing several levels my eyes would go nuts on looking at the 3D stuff and see it ‘wrong’.
Ha! I forgot about the thump. Hilarious, at least at first. My hids also liked the “cussing”, which they tried to figure out what was being said. Rumor was that it was real. I’m known for my “colorful” language, so they had plenty to compare. 
I downloaded the iTunes version to my iPad, so we’ll see if it brings back some memories.
I also got Frogger for a buck.
Interesting… that’s not how I would have described Q*Bert. For me the distinguishing features of the game were the pyramid and the coiled snake that chased you around. I had no idea what you were talking about from your description.
That was a description from a very old memory. Sorry if I offended. I guess I mistook the floating disks for floating disks. 
Now go to your room till you learn to not nitpick old people.
Where’s my tea?
Sorry I didn’t mean that to sound snarky.
Leaded or unleaded?
I didn’t take it as such. My snark alert is set pretty high.
Leaded. otherwise, why bother!
There’s a reason that it’s only a rumor. There was no actual cursing.
IIRC, it was a separate sound algorithm that was designed to electronically generate random human-like phonetical sounds. And Q*Bert was the first game to try something like that which made it pretty revolutionary at the time.
Frigheningly enough, it’s nearly double that – Q*Bert debuted in 1982.
I’m now feeling rather old for a guy who moments ago five-starred a twelve-song set on Rock Band 2, hard level.
I should have told them all that. Burst their silly little 7-10 year old bubbles.
Instead, I played along, offering a few guesses of my own.
I thought he meant he played it at 15 years old.
My daughters were born long after I was 15.