DavidD Posted April 15, 2022 Share Posted April 15, 2022 A new Taito arcade collection is out, and I found myself wondering about the development of Qix. A brief summary of the internet pulls up the only two facts about the game that I can find: 1) It was produced by Taito of America. 2) It was designed/created/etc. by Randy and Sandy Pfeiffer. I can't find much else, other than those two facts again and again. Do we know anything about the Pfeiffers? Did they produce anything else? It sounds like they worked on an immediate sequel, but I can't find much information about the two. 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TIX Posted April 15, 2022 Share Posted April 15, 2022 Randy is mainly a sound guy, he worked on pinball sound effects before he messed with the arcades, looking for info for my "Firepower" pinball I found the following credits: https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/games/credit/46810-randy-pfeiffer I think I read somewhere that he was responsible for "The Electric Yo-Yo" arcade too ! 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
electricmastro Posted May 25, 2022 Share Posted May 25, 2022 (edited) On 4/15/2022 at 3:29 AM, TIX said: Randy is mainly a sound guy, he worked on pinball sound effects before he messed with the arcades, looking for info for my "Firepower" pinball I found the following credits: https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/games/credit/46810-randy-pfeiffer I think I read somewhere that he was responsible for "The Electric Yo-Yo" arcade too ! Going by this, I think he might be the "Randall R. Pfeiffer" who worked on the World Cop pinball machine and the one who filed a patent with a "Sandra S. Pfeiffer" for a message system: https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-All-Music/Cash-Box/70s/1978/CB-1978-07-15.pdf https://books.google.com/books?id=BQdtxbvewbgC&lpg=PA1572&ots=Xj4b877BiH&dq="Randall R. Pfeiffer"&pg=PA1572#v=onepage&q&f=false Edited May 25, 2022 by electricmastro 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
electricmastro Posted May 25, 2022 Share Posted May 25, 2022 Another possible link: the Randy Pfeiffer who worked for Microlog in 1993 https://www.linkedin.com/in/randypfeiffer/ 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matt! Posted April 5 Share Posted April 5 That is indeed him. I interviewed him in 2003, by email. He told me that in all the time since the game was made in 1981, I was the first person outside of Taito to ever contact him about the game! https://blog.gingerbeardman.com/2003/07/22/jus4qix-the-story-of-a-classic-arcade-video-game/ 2 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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