Remember the one about the excess copies of ET in the desert?

[Tyger]

Turns out that urban myth was in fact true:

https://www.facebook.com/topic/Atari/106038516094364?source=whfrt&position=2

 

[Azure Flare]

Now to go find an Atari 2600 and see if the old stories about how bad that game was still hold true.

 

[Spektru]

Ahahah, the myth is true!

Nowadays, some games also deserve to be buried
For example:
Duke Nukem Forever
FF13 Saga
NFS The Run
Fast and Furious Showdown
Knack

 

[bevo]

Now to go find an Atari 2600 and see if the old stories about how bad that game was still hold true.

They're true. It was terrible. I was only around 7 and still remember how bad it was and how disappointed I was when I played it.

 

[Azure Flare]

I have seen video of gameplay, I can believe how bad it was. I just wanna be able to say I have played it once.

 

[Snorevette]

Ahahah, the myth is true!

Nowadays, some games also deserve to be buried
For example:
Duke Nukem Forever
FF13 Saga
NFS The Run
Fast and Furious Showdown
Knack

The thing is, all of those games were bad, but none of them were so apocalyptically awful that they literally nearly destroyed the games industry. That's what makes this revelation seem so ridiculously unreal.

 

[Spektru]

The thing is, all of those games were bad, but none of them were so apocalyptically awful that they literally nearly destroyed the games industry. That's what makes this revelation seem so ridiculously unreal.

Go play Knack, Fast and Furious and Duke NF. Then you will see what I am talking about.

 

[bevo]

Go play Knack, Fast and Furious and Duke NF. Then you will see what I am talking about.

Did you play E.T. ?

Those games are not near the level it was. It was also the most expensive game ever made at that time and was still absolutely terrible. Think about how bad most Atari games were and then to be able to say one game was much worse than the rest is amazing. Atari was riddled with a lot of really bad games but E.T. Was by far the worst one I played. No other game compares.

 

[chromatic9]

I don't have any rose tinted glasses for Atari games I thought they were terrible back then. The Basketball game was horrendous.

I don't think its right to spoil the myth though, but whatever.

 

[Coxis]

Amazing how time flies by and the stories about the now grown men that went and scoured the dumping ground as kids. And I agree with bevo, even the most awful games of today don't compare to the awfulness that was E.T.

 

[Robin]

Any game released today... literally any game which a publisher will publish or an app store will accept is a million times better than ET was, even if there is very limited gameplay and poor graphics.

In the game basically ET wondered around found 4 pieces of a telephone and then put them together to phone home... the end

 

[Marisauna]

I actually want to play it. Looks cool. Here you guys go if you hate it:
http://www.neocomputer.org/projects/et/
All hail Ninja ET!

Any game released today... literally any game which a publisher will publish or an app store will accept is a million times better than ET was, even if there is very limited gameplay and poor graphics.

In the game basically ET wondered around found 4 pieces of a telephone and then put them together to phone home... the end

What about games that college kids learning Java make? Although ET was a big-budget professional game, so yeah.

(The title screen is the best thing ever.)

"Very limited gameplay and poor graphics". It's the Atari. Expect that.

 

[JerseyDriverSS]

They're true. It was terrible. I was only around 7 and still remember how bad it was and how disappointed I was when I played it.

I remember getting it for Christmas (along with pole position). It was quite bad.