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| E.T. The Video Game |
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| mastodon:
--- Quote from: shatterstar69 on February 14, 2019, 08:48:39 am ---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* --- End quote --- I owned ET as a child. I did enjoy it. With that being said there wasnt a whole lot of games to compare them too. Even far fewer movies games. Raiders of the Lost Ark for 2600 was kind fun/bad/hard all at once. |
| mastodon:
--- Quote from: undertakerprime on February 14, 2019, 09:38:24 am ---*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. --- End quote --- @OP, this is a quality reply. This guy sums it up well. Also one thing to consider is ET was a HUGE movie back in the day. HUGE. I still love Drew Berrymore, lol. |
| epicninjask123:
I'm 21, so predictably everything Atari-related is beyond my first-hand experience. Hell, I've never even seen ET the movie. That said, by the time I do branch out into retro collecting, ET will be a high priority for me to get simply because of the story behind it. I've read every article I can find about the video game crash, seen every documentary, studied everyone's analysis, and the overwhelming consensus is that ET did not cause it... market oversaturation and a lack of quality assurance did. ET was just a scapegoat, or the straw that broke the camel's back. And I'm going to be candid, of all the games I've seen, ET strikes me as incredibly amazing considering it was developed basically from scratch, in only five weeks, without modern development tools, environments, libraries, assets and etc. |
| 98dgreen:
Pac Man is far worse |
| oldgamerz:
Ok so the YouTube video I watched on E.T the Atari 2600 game (about a year ago) said that many people didn't know how to play E.T because maybe? barely anyone ever read the E.T manual that came with the new copies of the game Hey from since some of you mentioned that you played and finished E.T the video game and seeing the game being played about a year ago on YouTube makes me want to play it even more now. The original version of Action 52 for the NES, I heard was a broken menace. and included mostly games that could not be finished, unlike the E.T game (in which actually worked) according to what I heard so far. I actually would like to play E.T. the video game or at lease emulate the game myself. The NES might have better graphics but I don't like to play most platform NES games currently. I happen to love Atari games but only if I can use a D-pad or a paddle controller, I am not too much of a fan of the Atari 2600 joystick |
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