30 Aug
2015
30 Aug
'15
3:10 p.m.
Someone went through E.T. and fixed a lot of the bugs and oversights,
releasing an improved version. It's playable here:
https://archive.org/details/ET_Fixed_Final
On Sun, Aug 30, 2015 at 5:54 PM, Sean Conner <spc at conman.org> wrote:
It was thus said that the Great drlegendre . once
stated:
The game [E.T.] 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.
I would think it depends upon your criteria for "worst video game ever."
I mean, "Chase the Chuck Wagon" [1] or "Custer's Revenge" [2]
could easily
take the "worst video game ever" slot. E.T. actually had a plot (as E.T.,
collect parts to "phone home").
Also, given the story behind E.T., it's an incredible accomplishment in
Atari 2600 programming---only five weeks to come up with an idea and get it
programmed on a machine where you had to program the screen nearly
pixel-by-pixel in about 4K of ROM (and 128 bytes of RAM).
I think the main problem with the game is the pixel-perfect collision
detection that makes it all too easy to fall into the pits. It can be
fixed
[3] but not with some addtional issues.
-spc (It's certainly more complex than Adventure ... )
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chase_the_Chuck_Wagon
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Custer%27s_Revenge
[3] http://www.neocomputer.org/projects/et/