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DaveMMR:

--- Quote from: Level42 on June 30, 2006, 03:33:31 pm ---On the game itself: remember that this was the very first game to be based on a movie, and totaly screwed in development and marketeers had taken over because they "knew" what would sell. Little did I know then when I played ET that this was a bad mistake long to be repeated until present day.

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Not really the first game based on a movie.  Off the top of my head, "Raiders of the Lost Arc" predates it.  I need to check the dates but I think Tron also came out before E.T., but I could be wrong. 

It wasn't so much 'overdeveloped' as it was 'underdeveloped'.  A single programmer threw this together in 5 weeks (even though he was given six).  It was just one of those 'contractual obligation' things.  The brass just wanted something to sell at Christmas and this was at a time when Atari though they could put "s**t in a cartridge and still sell millions" (actual quote from Warner exec). 

Yeah, Atari was a great company until the suits came.

NightGod:

--- Quote from: somunny on June 30, 2006, 11:47:15 am ---I remember playing it when it came out and that it was pretty lame.  I also remember quite a few other 80's blockbusters that were translated into awful 2600 games (Raiders Of The Lost Ark anyone?).  I just don't dwell on it.  For me, the memories focus on the good games, not the crappy ones.
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Oddly enough, I have some really good memories of the Raiders of the Lost Ark game-a friend and I used to stay up till 2-3 in the morning playing it and trying to figure out how to beat it (damn you tetse flies!). Was cool when we finally figured it all out and managed to beat it-it was really the first console-RPGish game any of us had played.

Dreamwriter:
Yeah, Raiders of the Lost Ark was one of the best Atari games, man, what's the deal?  As for ET, the funny thing is they manufactured *more* cartridges than there were systems to play them on - Atari apparently felt that the game would sell systems.

rescue161:

--- Quote from: ahofle on June 30, 2006, 11:50:31 am ---I'd say atari pacman was my least favorite game.  I even made fun of it back when it came out when I was a kid.  I mean they couldn't even make the effort to turn pacman's head when going up and down?  LOL
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EXACTLY!!!  What was the deal with the sounds of Pac-Man?  And what about the "side" doors on the top and the bottom???  Did the creators ever play the original game before they put that POS together???

Yes, I remember when my younger sister wanted the ET game for Christmas - What a let-down.  It was still better than Pac-Man.  My vote is that Pac-Man is the worst recreation of an arcade game EVER!

Level42:

--- Quote from: rescue161 on July 01, 2006, 11:02:45 am ---
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Yes, I remember when my younger sister wanted the ET game for Christmas - What a let-down.  It was still better than Pac-Man.  My vote is that Pac-Man is the worst recreation of an arcade game EVER!

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Yeah Pac Man was bad, but Donkey Kong was definitly the worst arcade "conversion". Only two levels, some blurbs representing mario and kong, impossible game control and....well a desaster !!!

But this one was made bad because they wanted it to be bad. This way, Coleco/CBS could show the gap between the Colecovision and the 2600 even more clearly.

I think the best DK conversion WAS on Atari however, being the 8-bit version. I still love that "licensed by Nintendo" on the label on the cartridge and on-screen.
And what about that intermission on the levels menu !?!? Great !
This game made me buy an Atari 600XL and this machine taught me most of my computer knowledge, and I still have that advantage of knowing the BASICS of a computer today.

Which reminds me of another terrible mistake by Atari.....ignoring Nintendo and missing out on the "NES" deal.... ahhh but there's so many more. How about Nolan Bushnell not believing in Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak's homecomputer project....(Apple !).....and Nolan's fault of selling Atari to Warner, or, or,or. On the other hand, it's always easy to judge those things afterwards....

I love Atari however, they kicked it off, they had brilliant games, the 2600 was a revolution and the 8-bit series was superb over anything available at the time. Even the ST brought the "Mac for the masses" and I used it for a very long time, before I had to bow for MS.

OK, I'm drifting off....
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