# Old Arcade Game - Help **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [June 18, 2003, 10:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-arcade-game-help/182669 "2003-06-18T10:29:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Tarantula](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e274bd/32.png) [@Tarantula](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tarantula)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2003, 10:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-arcade-game-help/182669/1 "2003-06-18T10:29:16Z")
This is gonna sound odd, but I want to know the name of an arcade game that I used to play in '90 - '91. I have called the arcade and explained it to them, but they say they can’t remember… Anyhoo, the game was one where you had to move a cursor (image, spacehip, whatever) to make a series of rectangles. When another cursor (a computer controlled one hit the line you were drawing, you were killed, unless you had gone full circle, and surrounded a piece of the background completely. If you had, the background turned from black into a piece of a picture. The pictures were all different, I remember - different ones for different levels. The idea was to “cut-out” sections of the background with your cursor and so, piece by piece, you slowly revealed the background picture. All I need is the title of this game. I’m sorry that I can’t describe the game better… Can anyone help - pleeeease??? This has been bugging me for a decade. Thanks a million all… 😕 😕 ---
**Author:** ![MC\_Master\_of\_Ceremonies](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/bb73d2/32.png) [@MC\_Master\_of\_Ceremonies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MC_Master_of_Ceremonies)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2003, 10:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-arcade-game-help/182669/2 "2003-06-18T10:31:40Z")
It sounds like ‘Tron’ to me. ---
**Author:** ![Tarantula](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e274bd/32.png) [@Tarantula](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tarantula)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2003, 10:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-arcade-game-help/182669/3 "2003-06-18T10:33:41Z")
Tron, eh? I might have a look on the web and see… Thanks… ---
**Author:** ![Tarantula](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e274bd/32.png) [@Tarantula](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tarantula)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2003, 10:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-arcade-game-help/182669/4 "2003-06-18T10:35:08Z")
Sorry \*\* MCMoS \*\* - definately not “Tron”… any other ideas… Thanks though. ---
**Author:** ![cstamets](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/958977/32.png) [@cstamets](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cstamets)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2003, 10:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-arcade-game-help/182669/5 "2003-06-18T10:41:52Z")
Sounds like [Super Qix](http://www.klov.com/game_detail.php?game_id=9933&letter=S) . I played the original Qix quite a bit, but never saw Super Qix. The background picture thing threw me off a bit. ---
**Author:** ![Tarantula](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e274bd/32.png) [@Tarantula](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tarantula)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2003, 10:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-arcade-game-help/182669/6 "2003-06-18T10:44:08Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by cstamets \* > \*\*Sounds like [Super Qix](http://www.klov.com/game_detail.php?game_id=9933&letter=S) . > > I played the original Qix quite a bit, but never saw Super Qix. The background picture thing threw me off a bit. \*\* Thanks a million - I think that’s it… I’ll have a closer look… :@) ---
**Author:** ![Tarantula](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e274bd/32.png) [@Tarantula](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tarantula)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2003, 11:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-arcade-game-help/182669/7 "2003-06-18T11:04:48Z")
That’s it. Thanks all.