http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wiezEjzGUrc I didn't have that game. Too bad 'cause those graphics were great!
Somewhere... In New Mexico... exists a landfill, with almost a million of those fucking cartridges, which have been run over by a steamroller, and buried in a concrete slab in the desert. Google it.
I remember that, and I know some nerds went after the holy grail of the ET landfill, yet never found it
This site supposedly has old nintendo games online. I'm not much of a video gamer so I didn't really check it out: http://www.nintendo8.com/
Yes, it was the most kick ass, as in I should have kicked my momma's ass for buying me that game. It made no fucking sense. The snakes, the black market, I didnt know what was going on half the time. After the original pit fall why try to make another game with snakes? That's like the pac-man game for the 2600, how fucking shitty, 'bang bang bang bang' I was so happy when Coleco Vision and the 5200 came out. I dont know why, but I used to love the overhead racing games.
I started kinda late 'in the game' (pardon the pun) - with an NES as my first system. It wasn't until after I had the SNES and Genesis that I happened upon a Magnavox Odyssey 3000 (glorified 'pong' variant), and a 2600 at a garage sale. I can remember plugging the ET game in, and thinking, "what. the. fuck. "
I think the E.T. game was when a company realized you cant slap a movie name on a game and expect people to accept it. Unfortunately, every movie that comes out now has to have an accompning video game. 95% of them suck joe's dick.
I shall do my best from Memory. I believe you bought the bomb from the black market then you blew a whole in the area with the snakes. Then their was a thing to stop time. Then you got the shovel. Then you jumped off the cliff slid down the tree branch into the cave and dug a whole. Then you you made your way down to the thing that showed you the ark. Fuck it your right the game was fucking confusing but it did kick at ass at the time.
Seems like you had to hold up an Ankh on the top of a scepter with a jewel in it so the sun shone through it and marked the spot of the ark on the map of the city.
Oh Im not saying we didnt rush out and get it as soon as it came out. Just like Pac Man, they had lines out the door when that turd hit the streets. I still have a 2600 somewhere in the attic. Probably still has 'Grand Prix' in the slot... My dad had the odyssey. It must have been late 70s, or early 80s. I was probably between 3-5 when he had it. That was the sweetness... I remember the racing game that looked like this.... X X X ;D
I remember being so bummed when Pac-Man dropped for the 2600. It was so lame :-\ I later got the 5200 and it had some good stuff. Moved on to the NES, the Sega Genesis, the Sega CD upgrade, the 3DO, the Playstation, the PS2, and the X360. I still remember Pitfall as one of the highlights, though. Back in the day, it was the shit.
Couple that with a 5-week timetable for beginning a game from scratch... Other games in that day in age took half a year to program. Oh, and I'm sure this was just one of the many "wonderful" ideas that came from the coked-up Atari team. Read the Wiki article about it... It even has a picture of the landfill.
