Good to see DLT getting out and about.

Is this about all those ET games being buried in the desert? Do i win a prize?

zqwbu - what ET would say if he was buried in the desert.

Quite possible the best ps3 failure photoshop entry i've seen.

You've really got to be a geek to know whats going on.

btqqavqs: What ET calls piles

Yes I imagine it is. For those that don't know - ET game on Atari cartrige. Not only was it a shite game that didn't sell very well but they also managed to produce more cartridges than consoles. i.e. There were more ET cartridges in existance than Atari consoles. They were then buried in the middle of the desert. Kind of makes Sony look like they are just playing at being stupid.

Pyuwyan - a type of bread on ETs home planet

Kuratagi and Nolan's new business venture.

http://img235.imageshack.us/img235/6381/chinkecheesene2.jpg

I think this is a bit before my time. It's like watching a re-run of Have I Got News For You where you have no idea what they're talking about, especially Ian Hislop.

*Switches back to "UK TV Gold"*

Speaking of "have i got news for you" does'nt zorg look like Angus Deayton?

http://img62.imageshack.us/img62/4277/castay2.jpg

David thats not true regarding more ET carts being made than consoles. 4 million copies of ET were made compared to 12 million copies of Pac-Man. At the time Atari estimated 10 million consoles were out there.
While it was a crap game (I had a copy) it was Atari's 8th best selling cartridge of all time.

hjhgjg uyuiyf: What ET calls Land Fill

There are people who haven't heard about Atari burying all those ET cartridges? Every single article about the 'top 10 worst games of all time' mentions it at least once, if not more often ("Bible Adventures: why didn't they bury this one in the desert too!?, Daikatana: Why didn't they bury this one in the desert too!?, and etc.").

Someone write 'The Top Ten Worst Articles about the Top Ten Worst Games of all Time' and bury it in a fucking desert.

wow friday afternoon was a total geekout. Someone bury me in the desert.

ok so its thursday. so what?

Yay! I made this.

I also sent

http://www.b3tards.com/u/7113e412f4471228da2f/phonebox.jpg

in. But they didn't use it. 'Cos it's crap.

What really shocks and awes me is that you guys have not made a joke about Sony sacrificing goats to pagan gods in order to sell God of War II: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=451414&in_page_id=1770&ct=5

Theres no excuse to NOT know about the Atari landfill incident, even if you're under 24 and weren't alive to hear of it when it occured, It's the most famous videogame themed meme ever next to "all your base are belong to us".

Anyone who doesn't know of it, or even worse actually feels the need to actually "educate" people about it (because as mentioned above, the story is already mentioned pretty much everywhere as a pivotal part of gaming history), should go back to commenting on youtube videos and telling people they should pass on a message about some serial killing ghost, before they die in 3 days. Or something.

Yeah I reckon 'Old Indiana Jones IX' will we where Old Indy rediscovers them in the desert, then flogs em on ebay3000, to buy the new Wii360Cast.

marmadukewithpeanuts: first off, fingers went numb typing that shit, ok the Sony Goat story has been done to death(no pun intended) in the last post. Besides I don't think any of us could 'stomach' any more jokes about it, it's just 'offal'. Sony just comfirm what most normal people knew anyway, that they are a bunch of thoughtless money grabbing moguls who try and intimidate small companies into region conformance, when NO CONSUMER has ever asked for it!
Sure there's a piracy element, but lets face it, all it's really about is protecting a directors bottom line, and you can bet your bottom dollar, that the man at the bottom wont see any of the money.

That last one had 'gay' written all over it.

eizizet: The flight company that took ET home

O dear i thought i wasn't a geek but i just cried with laughter infront of my 'cool' mates! i think i might just go and lock my self in my room with my dreamcast and my copy of power stone!

O dear i thought i wasn't a geek but i just cried with laughter infront of my 'cool' mates! i think i might just go and lock my self in my room with my dreamcast and my copy of power stone!

And your parents will disown you for double-posting.

nlnixo: Vimto on ET's home planet.

Jamie[That last one had 'gay' written all over it.

eizizet: The flight company that took ET home]

Ok I can understand maybe the Indiana Jones bit, but if your calling what I said about Sony gay, then you really need a F@@king good bitch slap!

Read about the liksang PSP fiasco ffs, Sony trying to stop sales of Jap PSP's in the UK, because they knew these sales would cut into a SMALL part of their greedy markup on UK PSP's. Jap prices are always cheaper.
As is says on the site, orders for the new colour read like the who's who of the gaming industry.

This is another thing everybody knows, along with the Atari E.T. cartidges.

How much fun would it have been to steam roller all those carts, Can I please drive the steamroller over all the ps3

Ajrlvuwg: the sound a crushed PS3 makes

Carriageman said...

"How much fun would it have been to steam roller all those carts, Can I please drive the steamroller over all the ps3"

It's been done already

http://images.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=http://www.clipstr.com/videos/VideoSteamrollerCrushesPS3/thumb.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.clipstr.com/tags/ps3.htm&h=165&w=220&sz=6&hl=en&start=1&um=1&tbnid=qfK4yuhFQAu6dM:&tbnh=80&tbnw=107&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dsteamroller%2Bps3%26svnum%3D10%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DN

Personally i'd favour some kind of explosives or maybe automatic weapons.

lmao at billymorris.

It was because you put the word 'bottom' in there about five billion times.

I don't like sony at all.

I hope you feel like a right sillyhead =]

ET wasn't a bad game. When will people figure that out? You thought it was bad because you were fucking 6 when you played it and it's difficult! If 90% of gamers were 6 now Half Life 2 would be considered bad too. You couldn't keep ET out of a pit when you were 6, so what? That's not because the game sucks, it's because 6 year olds are terribly stupid.

Word Verification: gqfgdbsf-- An entirely good spelling of the word "dog" if you ask a six year old.

Jamie[I hope you feel like a right sillyhead =]]

I do now :O Embarassing.., I cant believe how many times I said it lol OMFG ( >.<)' DOH!!

Sorry mate, its like i'm still swinging my arms when the fight is over.

Anyway back on subject.. E.T.
Imagine being the only person boring enough to have completed it lol.

Carriageman, I can think of several other uses:

1. What about paintball with E.T. cartridges?

2. Dominoe championships with E.T. cartridges?

3. World's Strongest Man competition, crush as many as possible in 1 minute?

4. Solder all the PCB's together to make one massive cartridge, add a blu-ray player and call it a PS4?

5. Make every PS fan play it to the end, to realise how bad games can get if they keep playing crap!, Clockwork Orange treatment.
It would make an awesome gaming rehabilitation tool.

You are right colin but the game was aimed at a young crowd, so it should have been designed with them in mind.
Anyway, best game on 2600 was Adventure IMO

You are right colin but the game was aimed at a young crowd, so it should have been designed with them in mind.


Variation 3 was made with young children in mind. There aren't any enemies, so it's basically just a matter of time before you win.

Of course no one read the manual then or reads it now, so most people don't even know there are variations, let alone what each one is for.

By the way, if you want to see a good speed run of ET just go to the botom of this page and look at the "ET goes home" video.

http://www.randomterrain.com/atari-2600-memories-et-tips.html

Pay attention to how he uses ET's powers to locate the pieces of the phone and to stop the enemies or send them home. Also, notice the countdown to the rescue ship. If you have a human in the forest when it runs out or if you aren't on the correct space when it arrives, you'll miss it.



A very solid Adventure game for the 2600, and a good movie tie in for a movie based on a loveable alien making friends with a little boy I mean, they hardly could have made a fixed shooter or racing game out of the concept.

Movie tie-in? Since when in the entirety of the film ET does he have to crane his neck to edge himself out of a ditch? Your arguements have no logic behind them too. Just because most of us were six or whatever doesn't mean we still didn't hate it because it was bad. I have very fond memories of Space Invaders and Air-Sea Battle on my old VCS. Space Invaders was crazy hard too, especially the last speedy crazy one. People thought it was bad because it stunk. There's no fun falling into pits and climbing out of them onlyto find that if you don't stop pressing the button ET falls back down. Some pits had bits of phone in them, MOST OF THEM DIDN'T which meant that you spent most of the game in trial and error mode to find out which were right. It was dire. Stop defending it. It just wasn't fun.

fbmyk - The sound of London Bridge going 'I know how you feel' to the ET cartridges.

I don't want to be a complete arsehole here but the photoshop is flawed, ET came out long after Nolan had sold atari to Warner Communications so it should be Ray Kassar's head shoped in.

Some pits had bits of phone in them, MOST OF THEM DIDN'T which meant that you spent most of the game in trial and error mode to find out which were right.

See there you go proving you don't have a fucking clue, just like everyone else who puts the game down. You don't look in every hole and hope for trial and error to work out you fucking twat! You look for a "find phone piece icon" and then pess the button and it tells you where the piece is.

What you're doing is like saying "I hate Sonic. Man, the way that you can't get around the loops because you have to run backwards around them on your head is real annoying". Of course you don't like the game; you don't know how to play it. That would be my point. Thanks fo proving it. You didn't read the manual and you hated it then and you still haven't and you hate it now. It's not the games fault you can't read.

Read a manual and then play the game and tell me how it is. Here's a link:
http://www.atariage.com/manual_html_page.html?SoftwareLabelID=157

I'm burying this thread in the fucking desert! http://img147.imageshack.us/img147/3287/burieduj3.jpg

Now wake me up when there's a story about Sony force feeding blu-ray discs to beagles or PS3 gives you the gay virus.

bnwpievy = a 7 year olds slang for toilet paper

Why are defending this ET game with so much zealotry. It was shit full stop, and the URLs you keep posting just make everyone remember vividly just how much. Sorry.


work verification: bfukuati - a particularly profane Italian supercar

jiggerycuntery said...

Why are defending this ET game with so much zealotry. It was shit full stop, and the URLs you keep posting just make everyone remember vividly just how much. Sorry.

I'm defending it with so much "zealotry" because everyone hates it and no ne knows how to play it. If posting a link to a manual to explain play mechanics to a guy who doesn't understand the single most important part of the game makes people hate it, then I'd argue no one is much interested in giving the game a fair shake. As well, if seeing Random Terrain complete the game correctly and easily in six minutes made you hate the game, I doubt very much if you even understood what was going on. I'm sorry, but a guy claimed 90% of the game was something completely different than what it is and then said it sucked. I'm sorry if I feel the need to point out that if you don't understand 90% of a game, then you really haven't played it.


I seem to have taken a wrong turn here somewhere. I thought this was UKR, but it seems I've ended up on Gamespot. Well then, I hope they're doing another "top ten worst" list that includes E.T. (the other 400 just weren't enough) so that people without a clue know what to think.

i hate those ne's. They dont know shit.

i hate those ne's. They dont know shit.
Your lower case "i" makes that really funny.

colin[I seem to have taken a wrong turn here somewhere. I thought this was UKR, but it seems I've ended up on Gamespot. Well then, I hope they're doing another "top ten worst" list that includes E.T. (the other 400 just weren't enough) so that people without a clue know what to think.]

Unfortunately colin, majority always wins. I cant stand the fact the majority prefers a pixel ridden TV as opposed to an Analog CLEAR image, but I still have to accept it. Unless you was personally involved in designing this- crap game, I really don't think it's worth getting that worked up over.
Even the most objective of us know it's crap. I played it on Stella, it's MAYBE not as bad as ppl originally made out, but by comparison, as soon as you put the other games on, E.T. just fades into insignificance.

slim: lol, that picture could'nt be more apt.

See you've just shown again why I have to keep defending this. I know there are a lot of other Sega fans here, so I'll try to use that as an example.

Remember when Sony fans told you how the Saturn sucked, and you should just deal with that? Remember when they said it "had all crap games and was very unimpressive graphically".

Then remember when they started to say a year before the P2 launched that "Sure, the Dreamcast is alright, but it'll be crap compared to the PS2. It's like the Saturn. No good games and worse graphics".

Remember how you knew they were speaking completely out of their asses, but how it seemed they were the vast majority of people on the internet. Remember how they were almost defnitely wrong everytime even though they all agreed on it all?

Well, right now, you're the equivalent of the Sony fans in this conversation.

Here's the list of complaints aganst ET:

It's too hard: Like I said, this is the main reason I think most people hated it, becaue it was too ard fo them at 6. The reason for that is that the default setting (game 1) is the equivalent of, say, the elite setting on Halo. Would you take someone seriously if all they ever played Halo on was Elite, but then they complained it was too hard of a game?

The graphics suck: Yeah, E.T looks great, the humans look great, the buildings are recognizable, the sprites for Indiana Jones and the Yar actually fit in there just as Easter eggs, and there is variety to the backgrounds. You're right, compared to Atari 2600 games like Sonic Adventure, GTA: San Andres, and Super Paper Mario, this game does look pretty tame. I mean, those games being th other games out in 1982. I mean, Adventure with it's block character, 2 coloured empty maze, and duck dragons is certainly much better (please note, I love Adventure, and am not putting it down; just making a point).

E.T. sold so poorly it started the videogame crash, so it must suck: If you think this, you're believing the horribly simple history of the crash as told by sites like Gamespot. E.T. didn't sell "to expectations" at a tim when videogames were still considered a fad. It still sold over a million copies, but not reaching expectations when the market as a whole had become sluggish led to massive investor panic. If the market weren't aready crashing, and if investors knew like today's investors do, that videogames were not a fad but a permanant industry, no one would blame ET for anything, becaue there wouldn't have been a crash. Imagine if every game not reaching expectations, but still selling 1 million copies made investors wet themselves in fear.

You have to search every pit by trial and error, and this makes up almost all of the game: Blatently wrong. See my above post.

ET is not what you'd expct based on the movie: It's a movie about a boy making friends with an alien. They could basically go the route of Gremlins an make a bad shooter or the way they did and make a solid adventure that filled a niche poorly served on the Atari. I suppose if it were a shitty shooter where Eliot shot bicycles you'd all be happier.

It's impossible to make sense of the map: It's a fucking cube. 1 top, 1 bottom, 4 sides. You can figure out the city in GTA but can't find your way around 6 screens?

ET pales compared to most 2600 games: Yeah, compared to jewels like OINK, Custer's Revenge, Journey Escape, Airlock, Final Approach and the other 400 shovelware titles on the 2600, it's a real dud. It isn't even possible to objectively put it into the bottom 50% of the 2600's library, let alone on the actual bottom of the all time list.


Nothing anyone ever says to diss the game, other than that it takes time to learn to get out of the pits, is based on anything except ignorant parroting of everyone else.

colin, you say I don't have a clue yet I've played the fucking game you prick. It is dire. Fucking dire. I know how to play it and it sucks balls. Your internet penis is massive. It really is. You mock my attitude toward the game yet it's another fucking opinion. I bet all you do is play E.T. and wank over the image of yourself in the mirror. You come on here and just rip into people who don't like the game. Welcome to the bastion of opinion that is the internet cockbreath.

qvomsxb - A buxom Sonic running backwards.

convercide said...

colin, you say I don't have a clue yet I've played the fucking game you prick.
Is that so Nancy? Well then why didn't you know how to find the phone pieces? I mean, it being the point of the game, you'd figure you should perhaps have known how to do that, hey cupcake? I mean, I know it's hard for you to look up anything that isn't instantly available in your girlguide handbook, but maybe in this situation you could have tired to figure it out some other way.

Word Verification: wffszrq: The way convercide spelled "Mississippi" in the "academics" portion of the Mrs. Cutey Pie contest, causing him to finish 2nd overall.

colin[Well, right now, you're the equivalent of the Sony fans in this conversation.]

lol colin, you really have lost the fucking plot.

The fact that your comparing it to GTA says it all, and when did anyone compare ET to modern games anyway? You just make shit up, I was comparing it to other 2600 games ffs.
Was you the only clever cunt on your street who knew about the (game1) option then? If so why did'nt you tell all your thick fucking mates, maybe you could have changed the course of gaming history. lol

Amoungst your bullshit though, you have actually repeated some of the good points from objective articles, like the one in EDGE magazine, about the industry panicking too early, but that was'nt just E.T. it was a general loss of faith due to top sequels like Ms.Pacman having a disappointing reaction in the arcades too.

You dont want to put Adventure down, but you will? whats that about?, the gameplay is far more instictive, and thats why it made for a better game, graphics don't matter, or have you learnt nothing from the PS3 slaughter!?

Maybe it does'nt deserve to be at the VERY bottom, but there's still plenty of games which kicked it's ass.
Keystone Kops, Pitfall, Demon Attack(imagic), Berzerk, Space Invaders, and yes, even pacman and OINK! to name but a few.

I think we all get your point anyway, now can we get back to, how cool it would be to steamroller a million cartages comments ffs.

I really have no defense against ignorance like that. It's like you read some else's post. Maybe if I lived in a world free of logic I could find something to reply to you with. Is querkldorgeskins a word there in your wonderful rainbow world of fantasy? Querkldorgeskins then my friend. Querkldorgeskins indeed.

Or maybe your just too ignorant to absorb what ppl are saying, and would much rather feed your own narcissism, and assume that you must always be right?
Clearly no-one's going to change your mind, we get it.
No body wants to change your mind, so stop trying to force others to agree with you, and when they resist, stop calling them.
You're being rude for the sake of a dead and buried, mediocre game at best, and it's starting to sound a little sad.

Paint!

like the one in EDGE magazine, about the industry panicking too early,

One last, not even really E.T. related so don't everyone groan and roll your eyes at once, point. For anyone interested in seeing how the videogame crash really happened, try to find the "Making of Atlantis" (a game by Imagic) video. Yutube recently took it down, but it'll likely be hosted soon on Atariage or elsewhere.

It's a documentary detailing the rise of the Imagic corperation. While it was being shot, the videogame market crash occured. As a result, you get to see what actually happened, and not what people say happened. In fact, at the end of it Imagic still hadn't gone down yet and was waiting for the little blip in the market to sort itself out. They were days away from being the fastest company ever to reach $100 million or some such and then suddeny they couldn't get an investor to save their lives. It's worth checking out.

And here it is:
http://www.atariage.com/forums/index.php?s=&showtopic=102671&view=findpost&p=1267399

Great! thats a much better/calmer way of getting your point across.
I promise to check it out.
The reason I mentioned the EDGE article is that a lot of people think it's THE most objective magazine out there, nearly always giving a warts and all account of things.
The steamroller comment wasnt to sound ignorant, it was to return the post back into a bit of fun. No matter what the game title it would still be fun to crush em all.

I wonder what else was sealed away with the cartriges, do you think they included all the marketing stuff and a couple of sealed 2600's?
A lot of ppl like myself loved atari, and it's tragic what happened. They could've made a comeback too, if the jaguar pad was'nt like holding a landline phone.

Billy Morris said...

They could've made a comeback too, if the jaguar pad was'nt like holding a landline phone.

Hey now, let's not start another fight :)

Sorry about my reaction, but I'm a huge Atari fanboy (even more than I am a Sega fanboy), and I really do believe most of what people think about ET is biased. The guy who made it is an Atari icon (he did Indiana Jones and Yars Revenge), and I don't like to see a game I believe he put a lot of effort into getting bashed for, in my opinion, very little reason. Perhaps I should have just said that originally...

Just to put into perspective the kind of Atari fan I am, I just spent over $100 Canadian to have an arcade controller made for my Atari 7800. Yeah, I'm at the point where I'm ordering specially made controllers for my 7800.

Is Edge European? I haven't seen it around here.

Yeah Edge is a UK mag, it also has a useful jobs section at the back for ppl who want to join the game developing side.

The size of the jaguar pad was'nt a problem, just the amount of buttons, and in a thumb stretching place too.
That said Tempest 2000 was awesome, and I remember really enjoying another shooter but can't remember the name.

The Fanboy admission explains it everything lmao

'in my opinion, very little reason. Perhaps I should have just said that originally...'

Yes, you would have got a far better reaction. We all have a place in our hearts for Atari, I think there's big money to be made in micro transactions, and downloadable remakes of the 2600 back catalogue. Check out online vids of Jetpac Refueled for how it should be done.

The size of the jaguar pad was'nt a problem, just the amount of buttons, and in a thumb stretching place too.
That makes sense. I find the buttons well used in, say, Doom, where you'd have normally played the game on a keyboard. I will admit to disliking have them do stuff in simple platformers like "Pitfall: The Mayan Adventure. I kind of like the Jag pad though, because it's got some stuff in common with the Sega game pads. It's kind of like grafting a Genesis pad onto a Dreamcast controller. Of course, as good as that sounds in theory, in practice it isn't quite as enticing as it should be.

I agree with the Microtransactions being a good idea. I also like it when Atari offes me some "Macro" transactions like the Flashback 2 (I own two; one is just for show).

I've never played jetpack, ever. It seems to have been a rather big deal over there from what I've seen online.

Word Verification: hxtjlzu-- about one apostrophe and "sometimes y" away from being an acceptable character name in a Star Wars novel. Hxt 'jlyzu for example, would be acceptable.

Forgot to mention, Aliens vs Predator was good too, and the 1st time we saw them in a 3D FPS shooter.

Yeah the Sinclar Spectrum was massive in the UK, games like Atic Atac, Pssst, Trans-am, Manic miner, Sabre Wulf, and Jetpac were all huge.

Personally I preferred the BBC Micro because it could replicate the arcade hits far more faithfully with games like Arcadians, Pacman, Rocket Raid, and games like Repton,Alpha Centuri and Ghouls just blew it out of the water, AND it did'nt suffer from the colour flood thing. I would use a Saturn/PS analogy, but a MAC/PC analogy would be a fairer one, as unlike the PS, Spectum had lots of appeal and good points.

But back on subject, Jetpac Refueled has made me realise how you can take a simple looking game, and make it look amazing. And without tampering with the orignal game mechanics too much, makes it REALLY work.

http://www.gametrailers.com/gamepage.php?id=4488


I'd love to see this done with 2600 games like Keystone Kops, Pitfall, OINK and Demon Attack. I'm sure if E.T. has the following you say it has, then a remake would be inevitable, but would struggle with licencing no doubt.

Here's hoping...

So have you two cock munchers met and chowed on each others pink truncheons yet?

It's called reasoning you nobstick!

Jawatron said...

So have you two cock munchers met and chowed on each others pink truncheons yet?
4:39 PM
If that means "did we both fuck your grandmother", then I can answer yes for my part.

Yeah she's a right dirty old aid's ridden slag.