Nostalgia all up in your face like. - by Renzatic
TTK12G3 on 12/11/2008 at 22:55
wow wtf
Anyway, my old stuff amounts to very old photographs and metal clips and buckles. I like the vibe they give off.
icemann on 13/11/2008 at 03:00
Quote Posted by demagogue
I liked E.T.
The movie will forever be a classic, but try watching any videos on youtube of the Atari game in action and you`ll see why it nearly killed the games industry. Just a fucking terrible excuse for a game.
The problem with that period of time was that alot of the games out there were all very similar to each other. Like you had 10,000 different kinds of Pac-Man games, and Space Invader type games etc etc. The public just had enough of it after ET and stopped buying basically. Dont blame them honestly.
Good things came from it in the end with the rise of Nintendo and Sega though.
demagogue on 13/11/2008 at 03:19
Quote Posted by icemann
try watching any videos on youtube of the Atari game in action and you`ll see why it nearly killed the games industry. Just a fucking terrible excuse for a game.
I think you misunderstood my post. As a kid, I really liked E.T. the Atari 2600 video game. I played it a lot. I thought the inventory mechanic was clever, and it had identifiable NPCs like other games didn't, and had a replayability that other games didn't have, and in a way it was ahead of its time with those. And it was just fun for me.
My whole point was I never really understood why people
hated the game with the passion they did. I don't personally see why it's a "fucking terrible excuse for a game", I mean as an example of a specially awful game. Of course, I can think of things to criticize it for, but no more than 90% of the other 2600 games, and why don't they get the same hate?
Also, I tend to think people that hated it were rushing through it too fast and not being careful. I keep reading people getting frustrated falling into the pits and the constant pressure to keep moving, but once you get a rhythm down and learn some tricks those aren't problems at all and people are just impatient.
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The problem with that period of time was that alot of the games out there were all very similar to each other. Like you had 10,000 different kinds of Pac-Man games, and Space Invader type games etc etc. The public just had enough of it after ET and stopped buying basically. Dont blame them honestly.
This is exactly about the same point I was making, with the opposite spin. Yes, the games from this era were basically 300 lines of code, piddling nothings. I could post to 1,000 flash games that are as bad or worse than E.T., but you don't see people screaming bloody murder "Just a fucking terrible excuse for a game." Why waste your breath? It's an Atari 2600 game; what do you expect?
In reading the post mortems, I realize it was the hype leading up to the E.T. game, and the poor sales in contrast to the expectations, that really made it notorious. That's one reason why I'm happy I never was exposed to that and just took it for the simple & flawed little game it was that was fun enough for me. Even today I try to stay away from too much media for a game in advance because I always feel better playing a game completely fresh and as detached as I can be.
Wow, that was more defense for a little Atari game than I expected was in me. But I don't like people assuming what my opinion on a game should be just because it's the "received wisdom".
P.S., I love this (
http://www.randomterrain.com/atari-2600-memories-et.html) E.T. Game fansite and pretty much agree with what it says. Also, I guess I just like rooting for the underdog, and (like all things nostalgic) a game that was simple fun to me as a kid and about which I was blissfully oblivious to what anybody else thought, and wouldn't have cared even if I did know.
icemann on 13/11/2008 at 03:48
Quote Posted by demagogue
Why waste your breath? It's an Atari 2600 game; what do you expect?
Firstly I think you misunderstood me. I wasn`t having a go at you for liking ET, as a kid I liked the game as well (though I was 5 years old at the time I think). But its not until your older that you realise how bad the game was.
To the comment about the 2600. The system was capable of a hell of alot better than that. Just look at Pitfall for example. Excellent game for its time, and there were hundreds of excellent games for the system.
Or on the basis of movie based games, even Indiana Jones which as a game purely is so so. But it atleast follows the plot of the movie. ET on the other hand is a game about falling into holes and then getting out of them for roughly 3/4 of it. I definately dont recall ET having to get out of zillions of holes in the movie. They would have been a hell of alot better off making a platformer similar to Pitfall maybe with Eliot needing to rescue ET from the scientists or something similar.
I have alot of nostalgia love for the 2600, it being the first console I ever owned but none for ET.
ZylonBane on 13/11/2008 at 04:01
Quote Posted by Renzatic
So did anyone here have one of these old machines when they were a kid?
Welcome to my closet. I have an Atari 400, 800, 800XL, and 130XE kicking around in there, in addition to all the classic game consoles and several shoeboxes full of 2600 cartridges.
"FlickerTerm" ring any bells for anyone?
june gloom on 13/11/2008 at 04:18
oh my god ulu that is link of the month
*SHOWS EVERYBODY HE KNOWS*
Scots Taffer on 14/11/2008 at 00:03
christ that was brilliant
"I must hear the fireworks" will be an internet meme before you know it
jtr7 on 14/11/2008 at 00:26
I have the 2600, the 7800, and the original 130XE.:cool:
Ostriig on 14/11/2008 at 00:49
Damnit, this thread kinda makes me regret I had no way of keeping my first gaming platform. I don't even remember what it was called, all I know is that it consisted of this black keyboard thing that my dad would hook up to a TV and an old Russian cassette player. That ring a bell with anyone? Think I only had one or two cassettes for it - I remember this Mario-like game with a dwarf and a faerie stomping on bee swarms or something like that.
I was gonna post something along the lines of "Oh, fuck me..." but on reflection I decided that would've probably not been my brightest idea yet.
