By: Dr-Baa
Trying to remember the details of E.T. yesterday filled me with the urge to play it. So, I dug out the old VCS and fired it up. Here's what I can tell you about the game play: The goal of the game is...
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ET, Raiders, whatever. I escaped from the Mindmaster. Hell yeah! He found me 'quaint.'
View ArticleBy: Songdog
I remember that Mindmaster ad, but I don't think I ever saw the thing in person. And you know, I've been thinking about it all day: I think I did beat Sphinx. I have some memory of it starting over...
View ArticleBy: ZachsMind
FleaCircus: "Driveshaft rocks."DRIVE SHAFT? You're kidding right? They had, like, one hit and then disappeared off the radar. You All Everybody! You All Everybody!
View ArticleBy: dirigibleman
I beat E.T., and it took years, but I also beat Raiders of the Lost Ark. It's pretty easy once you figure it out. Don't remember if I beat Riddle of the Sphinx, though.
View ArticleBy: Ogre Lawless
Wow, that was kind of neat. I thought for sure it was going to be a prop setup, but where else would one get so many ET carts? Also, disturbing that they'll all in such good shape. Kind of neat done as...
View ArticleBy: crunchland
Hard to believe we once settled for those crap graphics. Makes you wonder what the vidgame graphics will be like in another 20 years. (Cortex jackholes with surround odorama, I bet.) Oh, and cute...
View ArticleBy: BoatMeme
I remember that the real problem with getting out of the hole, was that once you levitated out, the game would sometimes place you right back on the edge of the hole and you would unavoidably fall back...
View ArticleBy: absalom
I thought they cemented in all those carts so that something like this couldn't happen. And, yes, ET *was* a horrible game, and yes, I did play and win it as a kid. Essentially, Dr-Baa has the right of...
View ArticleBy: Songdog
Played all of those: ET, Raiders of the Lost Ark, and Riddle of the Sphinx. I don't remember solving any of them, but hey, I think I still have the cartridges ...
View ArticleBy: LordSludge
It still amazes me that every one of those games was either 2KB or 4KB in size. (My dad used to burn them to EPROMs for us, so we'd have 30+ games in standard rotation.) And NO WAY was Pacman the...
View ArticleBy: Orange Goblin
That was really well put together, although I did realise it must be a fake when they found the first cart.
View ArticleBy: Dr-Baa
Raiders of the Lost Ark was freaky-odd. It was neat though how you used the second joystick to control your inventory selection. RotLA and Riddle of the Sphinx are two games I'd love to sit down and...
View ArticleBy: jefbla
I always thought the worst Atari game was Pac-man. I remember enjoying E.T. and even winning it. It was Raiders of the Lost Ark that seemed unplayable.
View ArticleBy: dig_duggler
I loved this game. I was 5, but I so didn't want ET to die. I think I actually cried a few times when he did. The memories. Combine this with the digg story about how they freaking filmed almost all of...
View ArticleBy: Dr-Baa
Let me see... I remember collecting Reece's Pieces and phone parts. If I remember right, you completed the game when you collected all the parts for the phone and got to the right screen to be picked...
View ArticleBy: prostyle
Well, just goes to show my ET skills were not up to par... thank you for the correction! Aside from getting out of the hole or avoiding abduction via the trenchcoat man, what could you actually do?
View ArticleBy: brain_drain
There's actually a shot in the video that shows the escaping-a-hole-via-neck-extension technique.
View ArticleBy: Dr-Baa
You fell in a hole that you couldn't get out of, I'll have to check that. I remember being able to get out of the hole using the neck-extension to levitate. Goofy, but true.
View ArticleBy: prostyle
Dismiss it as nostalgia if you will, but the game wasn't bad at all. You fell in a hole that you couldn't get out of, and the only button you had made ETs neck grow for no reason! This isn't Combat...
View ArticleBy: Dr-Baa
As for E.T. I'm so glad I missed the misery of playing that game. Quite possibly the worst game of all time. I would have to disagree there. I played the game when I was young, and remember enjoying it...
View ArticleBy: samsara
Keith Schofield is fairly impressive for music videos. I've been following the directors since "Pi" came out a few years ago. Honestly 3 feet deep, Pi, and Loud and Clear are really well done and worth...
View ArticleBy: greycap
As with loquacious and Faint of Butt, my heart did leap for a moment when I assumed they'd discovered a boxcar buried in the desert filled with alien bodies Atari cartridges...
View ArticleBy: loquacious
Hah. I was mislead, too. I should have thoroughly read the Wikipedia article I linked to. Color me overly credulous.
View ArticleBy: Faint of Butt
Somewhat misleading FPP, as I thought that the genuine site had been discovered and was used in the video. Still a cute concept, though, and well executed.
View ArticleE.T. Phone Home!
Nerds travel to the infamous Atari 2600 E.T. video game landfill, dig up hundreds of carts, play them and make a music video of it.(Quicktime video.)
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