30 Aug
2015
30 Aug
'15
8:58 p.m.
I never said E.T. for Atari 2600 was the Worst Game Ever.. I put that in
"quotes" because so many games have been granted that title, and logic
dictates that there's no one, true "Worst Game Ever".
Since you mentioned 'Chase the Chuckwagon' - have you ever played through
Legend of Zelda - Twilight Princess? There's a hilarious
chase-the-chuckwagon mini-game in there, that's frustrating as all hell -
and I swear, it's gotta be an homage to the Atari game..
On Sun, Aug 30, 2015 at 5:10 PM, Jason Scott <jason at textfiles.com> wrote:
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:
ever."
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 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/