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| Was E.T really that bad? |
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| instantreplay:
So I've watched a lot of old Atari 2600 walkthroughs and I recently watched someone play E.T. and I'm having a hard time understanding why its considered the worst game of all time. I'm not saying the game is good, but there are so many Atari games that were just as bad if not worse, but everyone loved them. The first Indiana Jones game is absolutely baffling to me. People call it a puzzle game but that's like calling lego kit without instructions a puzzle. |
| burningdoom:
It's the holes. Those damn holes. If they weren't there, it might be enjoyable enough to be playable. |
| dashv:
I beat the game when I was a kid so it is far from unplayable. I agree that the hate this game receives for being complex and unforgiving is unfair when games just as bad or worse (Raiders of the Lost Ark for example) are held up as forgotten gems of a bygone era. |
| exonerator:
No. It had flaws, but it was damned ambitious as an Atari game, and certainly more playable than the majority of Atari games... would you play Football on Atari? I don't think so. It's just a game you need the manual for, and it's safe to assume that people on the hate bandwagon in recent years have forgotten that not all Atari games are easy pick up and play games. I actually really like E.T. on Atari. |
| bikingjahuty:
Honestly no. I've played games that are waayyy worse, both on the 2600 all the way up to the PS3. It's definitely not a good game, but a lot of the reason it has been awarded so much of the infamy it carries is because of history revisionists online who like to pin the video game crash on it, and make it sound like it almost caused WW3. Alone, it's influence on the crash was minimal compared to a variety of other, much larger things going on around 1983. |
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