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Title: The ET landfill stash has been found! Post by: sprite75 on April 26, 2014, 05:05:00 PM Score, I guess... (http://bigstory.ap.org/article/diggers-ready-unearth-ataris-et-games-0)
Quote ALAMOGORDO, N.M. (AP) — A documentary film production company has found buried in a New Mexico landfill hundreds of the Atari "E.T." game cartridges that some call the worst video game ever made. Film director Zak Penn showed one "E.T." cartridge retrieved from the site and said that hundreds more were found in the mounds of trash and dirt scooped by a backhoe. About 200 residents and game enthusiasts gathered early Saturday in southeastern New Mexico to watch backhoes and bulldozers dig through the concrete-covered landfill in search of up to a million discarded copies of "E.T. The Extraterrestrial" that the game's maker wanted to hide forever. "I feel pretty relieved and psyched that they actually got to see something," said Penn as members of the production team sifted through the mounds of trash, pulling out boxes, games and other Atari products. Title: Re: The ET landfill stash has been found! Post by: lester1/2jr on April 26, 2014, 05:23:14 PM I played that game. It's in the right place leave it there
Title: Re: The ET landfill stash has been found! Post by: sprite75 on April 26, 2014, 05:41:56 PM I played that game. It's in the right place leave it there I got it for Christmas one year. I tend to agree. Title: Re: The ET landfill stash has been found! Post by: Bushma on April 26, 2014, 11:05:54 PM Maybe they will find all the missing copies of the Star Wars Holiday Special there too.
Title: Re: The ET landfill stash has been found! Post by: VenomX73 on April 26, 2014, 11:29:26 PM (http://fc06.deviantart.net/fs70/i/2011/247/c/f/angry_video_game_nerd_omg_face_by_mrdeadpills77-d48vxbm.png)
Title: Re: The ET landfill stash has been found! Post by: Andrew on April 28, 2014, 08:02:25 AM I remembered playing the game after reading a comment about it. My memory matched the reviewer's experience, with was roughly "You fall in a hole, and spend an hour trying to get out. Every time you start over same thing happens, until you get fed up with the game and throw it in the trash."
Title: Re: The ET landfill stash has been found! Post by: VenomX73 on April 28, 2014, 05:42:10 PM Yup... had it.
(http://www.atariprotos.com/2600/software/et/et_3.png) walk - fall in hole - raise neck to get out of hole - walk - fall in hole - raise neck to get out of hole - repeat. Title: Re: The ET landfill stash has been found! Post by: Trevor on April 29, 2014, 12:46:30 AM Maybe they will find all the missing copies of the Star Wars Holiday Special there too. :buggedout: :buggedout: Leave THOSE there, please... :wink: Title: Re: The ET landfill stash has been found! Post by: Trevor on April 29, 2014, 12:47:04 AM I remembered playing the game after reading a comment about it. My memory matched the reviewer's experience, with was roughly "You fall in a hole, and spend an hour trying to get out. Every time you start over same thing happens, until you get fed up with the game and throw it in the trash." :bouncegiggle: :teddyr: :teddyr: Title: Re: The ET landfill stash has been found! Post by: Trevor on April 29, 2014, 12:50:23 AM Yup... had it. ([url]http://www.atariprotos.com/2600/software/et/et_3.png[/url]) walk - fall in hole - raise neck to get out of hole - walk - fall in hole - raise neck to get out of hole - repeat. :teddyr: :teddyr: Title: Re: The ET landfill stash has been found! Post by: Bushma on April 29, 2014, 06:56:55 AM I don't know about legalities, so I'm not going to link anything. I just found an Atari emulator and the rom for this game. I'm tempted to give it a shot.
Title: Re: The ET landfill stash has been found! Post by: sprite75 on April 29, 2014, 06:12:34 PM I don't know about legalities, so I'm not going to link anything. I just found an Atari emulator and the rom for this game. I'm tempted to give it a shot. I think you'll find the game lives down to its reputation. Title: Re: The ET landfill stash has been found! Post by: zelmo73 on May 01, 2014, 01:08:36 AM I don't know about legalities, so I'm not going to link anything. I just found an Atari emulator and the rom for this game. I'm tempted to give it a shot. Don't do it. You can always get back lost money, but you can never get back lost time. I suggest watching the movie and drinking Drano instead if you want the same effect. Title: Re: The ET landfill stash has been found! Post by: Ed, Ego and Superego on May 03, 2014, 07:27:40 PM When they broke ground, there was a mighty wailing and the spirits of suck flew through the air like at the end of Raiders.
Title: Re: The ET landfill stash has been found! Post by: Jim H on May 12, 2014, 10:33:48 PM I have it on cartridge. It's both boring and extremely confusing. Like a number of Atari games. It's pretty bad.
Title: Re: The ET landfill stash has been found! Post by: Umaril Has Returned on May 13, 2014, 02:18:16 PM I have it on cartridge. It's both boring and extremely confusing. Like a number of Atari games. It's pretty bad. Well. Atari got it right with Adventure! and Missile Command. Iused to love playing Missile Command for a few hours, as it was fairly faithful to the arcade version despite the graphics. Atari had it right a few times, anyway :smile: Title: Re: The ET landfill stash has been found! Post by: Jim H on May 15, 2014, 06:07:16 PM I have it on cartridge. It's both boring and extremely confusing. Like a number of Atari games. It's pretty bad. Well. Atari got it right with Adventure! and Missile Command. Iused to love playing Missile Command for a few hours, as it was fairly faithful to the arcade version despite the graphics. Atari had it right a few times, anyway :smile: Oh yeah, I like quite a few Atari games. Combat is a classic. Yar's Revenge is fun. Berserk. That dragon running game, the name escapes me. There's a bunch of solid arcade ports. Pitfall. A lot of the games are very entertaining to watch and great for parties. Try playing them in the dark with people who've been drinking. It might be worth noting the Atari 2600 had the longest lifespan of ANY console. It had major releases into 1992 (in other words, it outlived BOTH of its successor consoles, the 5200 and the 7800, and somehow lived into the SNES/Genesis era), which a lot of people don't realize. Some of the latter games are also technically incredible considering the extreme limitations of the system. http://youtu.be/f68IjW7_w98 (http://youtu.be/f68IjW7_w98) I still have my 2600 and 7800. But there's a reason the market crash. There's such a crapton of awful releases, and the bad games are soooo hard to even understand in many cases (admittedly, the Intellivision and Colecovision's bad titles have the same problems). Say what you will about Nintendo's monopolistic hold on the NES, but their licensing restrictions really helped. The NES itself has plenty of stinkers, but almost all of them are at least playable. Title: Re: The ET landfill stash has been found! Post by: sprite75 on May 16, 2014, 05:20:24 PM I still have my 2600 and 7800. But there's a reason the market crash. There's such a crapton of awful releases, and the bad games are soooo hard to even understand in many cases (admittedly, the Intellivision and Colecovision's bad titles have the same problems). Say what you will about Nintendo's monopolistic hold on the NES, but their licensing restrictions really helped. The NES itself has plenty of stinkers, but almost all of them are at least playable. Yeah, I still have my 2600 upstairs. I think it still works but there's no joysticks, no way to plug it in to the TV, nor do I know where the power adapter is. I occasionally play some of the games via emulator and some of them can be just as entertaining, if not so, than modern games. Warlords is one that comes to mind - it may have been pretty simplistic but damn it was still enjoyable. |