Who was the first video game character to curse?

Q*bert, the orange nose-having arcade hero from 1982, holds the distinction of being gaming's first potty mouth. When players lost a life, the character would emit a speech bubble containing "@!#?@!". Those symbols, also known as "grawlix," had been representing naughty words in comics since the 1960s. But even in grawlix, gamers knew exactly what our frustrated orange friend was trying to say, kicking off decades of video game characters expressing themselves in increasingly colorful language.