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[ressurectionx]

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[Bomb Bloke]

*scratches head*

I don't remember anything like that being in Adventure...  

 

(Mostly I just fell down holes in the dark.)

[ressurectionx]

LOL.... this pic still cracks me up.

What... nobody thinks this is funny???  

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Yeah... I don't get the haters on ET.  It's like one person wrote a bad article online about it and now a million people who never played it agree that it's the worst game that ever made and it's become the scapegoat for killing the home console in the early 80's.

I don't know... I had that game as a kid.  I thought it was great.  Sure, those holes were annoying, but they were easy enough to figure out.

[ressurectionx]

Anybody who's 20 or 30 or 40 and plays that game for the first time now is going to think it sucks.  I think I had the game when I was 6 or 7 and it was real cool.  There definitely wasn't another game like it at the time, and I can't think of one like it that was made after.  

There was a ton of crap for the 2600, but what made it worse was that since there were seemingly no copyrights in the wild west of home console gaming, there would be about 7 different titles for the same game.  There really was only about 450 to 500 unique games during the system's life.  (Trust me... I went through all of them to make the Xtras already).

Try Seaquest, Oink! and Termoil if you haven't played them yet.  My old man was pretty good at picking the winners on the 2600 back in the day.  We had a lot of good ones.

[ressurectionx]

I grew up on Atari and most of my friends did too and we moved on to Nintendo, Super Nintendo....  One of my friends had Genesis and I ended up getting a used one in high school.

I only knew one person who had the Commodore 64 personally, and that was the only gaming computer any of my friends had.  His old man must have had 1,000 games pirated on that.  I remember all the blank disks that had game names hand written on the labels.  

I couldn't say about how popular it was in the US though.  I can only speak for the area I grew up in.  

We always had new games, and the systems were already on sale.  I actually didn't even know anything about the crash until a few years back reading about it online.  I'm sure a bunch of rich people became poor over it, but the market must have been so flooded with games that there were never any shortages while people were getting fired.

[Bomb Bloke]

QUOTE(ressurectionx @ Oct 17 2009, 11:25 AM)

We always had new games, and the systems were already on sale.  I actually didn't even know anything about the crash until a few years back reading about it online.  I'm sure a bunch of rich people became poor over it, but the market must have been so flooded with games that there were never any shortages while people were getting fired.

That was part of the problem: Supply far outweighed demand, especially once new competitors started appearing.

As a result, those games that weren't sent back to their suppliers were instead sold very cheaply.

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Funny how greed makes us do the same type of crap over and over and over again.  

If it ain't one bubble it's the next.

Where there are humans, there is no balance.

[BlueSlingShot]

I had et when i was about 7-8 years old.....i didn't think it was the worst game of all time at all. I couldn't figure out after getting all the pieces of the phone how to call the damn mothership to come pick me up.

When i read that article in EGM i almost died. I had no idea that happened and like someone stated previously because it was posted that got the rep on the net of being the most disastrous game of all time.

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