31 Aug
2015
31 Aug
'15
10:41 a.m.
Funny you should mention Pitfall! Because it wasn't really until the 3rd
party 'blockbusters' from outfits like Activision appeared, that the gaming
public came to realize just how seriously lazy and unimaginative Atari's
in-house development team was.
On Sun, Aug 30, 2015 at 8:09 PM, Tothwolf <tothwolf at concentric.net> wrote:
On Sun, 30 Aug 2015, drlegendre . wrote:
On Sun, Aug 30, 2015 at 1:41 PM, Ali <cctalk
at fahimi.net> wrote:
How might a collector discern a "landfill" E.T. cart from any other E.T.
A quick search of eBay would correct your 'understanding'. There are
dozens of copies for sale, many with boxes and manuals. They start at about
$5.00.
The game is very common, and generally considered worthless. It's a joke,
possibly the "worst video game ever made" - up there with Superman 64 for
N64.
When I used to buy Atari stuff at resale shops to build my own collection
(back in the early to mid 1990s when people were practically giving away
2600 stuff), ET seemed to be pretty common. It wasn't nearly as common as
Pac-Man or Pitfall! or a pack-in game like Combat, but I saw them
frequently. I gave/traded away quite a few copies of ET but kept at least
one.
cat that
some snarky guy buried in the clay of his back forty?
Not that I am expert or anything but my understanding is that the ET
cart is extremely rare to begin with. In fact the landfill collection is
the largest supply of the cart to be injected into the market.