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| shatterstar69:
This game has gotten a horrible rap and is often blamed for the first video game crash in the mid 80’s before Nintendo came along, but how many of you actually owned and played it? *sheepishly raises hand* |
| hoshichiri:
I'm far too young to have owned it 'back in the day', but it's been in my Atari collection since freshman year of high school, when I picked it up as a prop for a presentation on the history of videogames... meaning I've had it about 2 decades longer than I've had a working Atari. I would give the game a big ol' 'meh' on the review scale. Like many Atari games, it's incomprehensible without the instructions. Once you know what you're supposed to be doing, it's not that terrible- just boring with poor controls. I think the bigger issue is one of timing... being a high-profile release at a time when the market was drowning in bad third party schlock, the dissapointment reverberated far more strongly than it would have otherwise. It's not a horrific eldritch horror that destroyed the US console market- merely the straw the broke the camel's back. |
| undertakerprime:
*raises hand* My first console was an Atari 2600, and yes, I owned ET. Naturally, I was too young to understand the difference between good and bad game design, so I just thought it was really hard and I just wasn’t that good at it. I tried to like it but I never had much fun with it. Of course it was years later I found out about its extremely short development time and the other aspects of its troubled creation. |
| aliensstudios:
I got it rather recently and honestly, it's not really a bad game. I can understand the frustration on the 1983 consumer's part for it's general difficulty and nonintuitive gameplay, but as someone who sat down, played it and completed it, I can say I've played far worse games. The internet sort of gave it this reputation as a really bad game, but I think it was just too ambitious for the system and that day in age. It's not great mind you, but people pointing the finger at it like's it the spawn of Satan and the worst game ever just make me roll my eyes. |
| bikingjahuty:
I think anyone who honestly believes it's the worst game of all time is fairly inexperienced as a gamer, given there are so, so many more worse games out there. Also, I don't know a ton about the video game crash of 83, but ET was far from being the soul reason or really the primary reason for it. Is E.T. a good game? No, but it is far from being as terrible as it's made out to be. |
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