Comment by glimshe
18 days ago
Raiders of the Lost Ark is one of the best games for the Atari 2600 and I say this without any nostalgia for the title. It's an early adventure game and has a kind of complexity absent in most Atari 2600 games which, based on today's standards, are largely stupid. I've discovered things about this game years later by reading a walkthrough... It has a point system similar to the Sierra games because some activities are actually optional, a breakthrough feature.
In fact, the Howard Scott Warshaw works are great: Yars Revenge, with simple but classic gameplay and E.T., the victim of one of the most unfair public lynchings of a game ever.
Why did the E.T. game such public backlash though?
The E.T. movie was popular among kids and parents. One would think a game about it, would be popular too, if it worked recently.
Bad collision detection with respect to the character appearance, and the game not being understandable if you didn't thoroughly read the manual.
http://www.neocomputer.org/projects/et/
When I was six, a cousin about to leave for college gave me his 2600, my first console.
With it came not one, but two (!) copies of E.T. So I had a backup in case I accidentally dropped one in a pit or sinkhole…
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