The man who made 'the worst video game in history'
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#2A couple of comments based off of the first ET poster/ad in the article:
* Atari games like this cost $40? That seems expensive!
* Why did Pennsylvania residents have to call a different number?
* Funny that a point of advertising was getting the game before everyone else. It reminds you that these were real games people wanted and not just nostalgic blasts, how I view them now.
(Link to poster: http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/624/cpsprodpb/1972/production/_...)
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#3Anyone who is in to Atari 2600 knows that ET is verrrrrry far from the worst game available on that system! And it's so sad making it a great game would have take so few tweaks! http://www.neocomputer.org/projects/et/
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#4If you want to learn much more about this, watch the movie, "Atari: Game Over":
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3715406/
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#5Here I thought I Wanna Be The Guy was the worst video game.
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#6I still don't get why this game is so maligned. It was one of my favorite 2600 games! The only game I liked better was pitfall.
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#7My wife remembers that game quite fondly. May be hip to dis it now, but a lot of people did enjoy it.
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#8My wife remembers that game quite fondly. May be hip to dis it now, but a lot of people did enjoy it.
I played it a lot. I can't say I ever enjoyed it. It was a frustrating game with very little reward.
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#9> "It's awesome to be credited with single-handedly bringing down a billion-dollar industry with eight kilobytes of code. But the truth is a little more complex."
Eight kilobytes?! How do you build anything meaningful, especially a game, with just eight kilobytes?
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#10Anyone who is in to Atari 2600 knows that ET is verrrrrry far from the worst game available on that system! And it's so sad making it a great game would have take so few tweaks! http://www.neocomputer.org/projects/et/
Was going to post this, then got caught up reading it and you beat me too it.
Good read, interesting fixes.