Play it Through - E.T. The Extra Terrestrial
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- Опубліковано 21 жов 2024
- Hey everyone on this episode of Play it Through its one of the worst video games of all time and that is E.T. The Extra Terrestrial for the Atari 2600. This game has been cited for causing not only the 1983 video game crash but also one of the reasons Atari held to be bought out just a year or so after this game came out changing the video game market forever. The game has you play as E.T. you have a limited amount of points or life to find three pieces of your phone and call home. The whole time you are being chased by F.B.I agents and a mad scientist doctor. This game is plagued with some unfortunately design choices and some weird glitches. Due to its confusing nature this game gets a very poor reputation. Enjoy!
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There were never thousands of ET games buried in Alamogordo, that's a myth that sprung up years later and was also never once mentioned by the actual press articles of the time. The dump there was simply a clearing out of Atari's Texas manufacturing plant as it transitioned to automated production methods and a focus on personal computer manufacturing. It had previously been one of the main plants for manufacturing of game cartridges and other hardware, and game manufacturing was being moved overseas to China.
As part of the transition the unused cartridge stock (as in bare circuit boards and empty plastic carts) of a group of titles (including Pac-Man and Space Invaders), console parts and computer parts were all dumped there in New Mexico. It was covered in detail by the Alamogordo press at the time.
Source: www.amazon.com/Atari-Inc-Mr-Curt-Vendel/dp/0985597402/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1357936095&sr=1-1&keywords=atari+inc.+business+is+fun
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thanks for playing through this! I actually enjoyed this game as a kid and was never able to complete it. I think there are far worse games out there (chase the chuckwagon, anyone?) , but this definitely has some very frustrating elements
This game is so much easier than Raiders Of the Lost Arc. Have you done Raiders Of the Lost Arc for Atari 2600? That game really requires some explanation.
I really lack how well you explained everything here.
The music for most Atari games released in the 1980's use the approximate soundbanks as Windows DOS games without DOSBox support.
I remember playing this game back in the day and half the time you couldn't figure out what the hell was going on in the game. Now I know what all those icons at the top of the screen mean.
I would love to see a play it through of Superman 64, the whole game can't be just rings. I like the atari play it throughs, not many people do them.
Well, I _would_ have said that _Raiders of the Lost Ark_ is easier to figure out than _E.T._ had it not taken us two months to figure out how to get past the title screen.
Ha! I knew this one was right around the bend. As a kid, this game frustrated me to no end. I'd have to play the "easy" version, the variation without the scientist or the agent. It was hard enough getting the fuck out of those holes in the ground!
9:48 um... Instruction manual?
One of my favorite 2600 games, far from the worst on the system.
I felt Superman for the Atari 2600 was way worse than this game. At least it is actually possible to lose in E.T.
I gotta say before i even watch this video that ET is one of my favorite atari games. Most of the negative hype over this game is simply through pop culture. It's "cool" to bash this game. Well, i for one say bah! This game has:
- multicolored sprites with smooth animations
- a title screen with music and decent graphics
- a goal that is not "collect points until you inevitably die"
And if you complain about the pits being too hard to avoid, then you just aren't very good at video games.
Is this the one they buried in the desert?
Yep
It's an urban legend. If it was, they wouldn't have had any copies to sell at Big Lots and other buy-out outlets in the early 90s (ten years after its original release). Further, if as many copies were returned and buried as were rumored to have been, ET carts wouldn't be selling at $0.99 in most retrogame stores today, since it would be far more rare (remember, a copy of Nintendo World Championships sold for nearly $100k recently, so rarity is a major factor in retrogame prices). As it stands, ET is one of the most common 2600 carts out there, and can almost always be found in the wild for dirt cheap.
kamikaze9699 Didn't they just dig the buried cartridges up recently? Like, in the last month or 2?
KmS iDevastate Yeah, not even two weeks ago they did. A couple of the articles I've seen said it wasn't just this game but others among them.
KmS iDevastate It was the remnants of a warehouse they cleared out when they moved manufacturing overseas- including Defender, Phoenix, Asteroids, and a number of other games they housed there (as well as some Atari 800 line computers and parts), numbers being far fewer than a million. This was all covered in published statements by Atari in 1984. The main motherload of Pac-Man and ET carts wasn't buried, but rather sold for pennies on the dollar to discount bulk retailers.
oh god this game the worst game