This game revolutionized the gaming industry Nintendo Sony and Microsoft owe everything they have to E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial without it we wouldn't have peak fiction
hey, go easy on the lil guy. it’s not his fault they buried him alive in the desert.
El famoso juego de E.T. que reventó la industria de los videojuegos, y no por el lado bueno. Un fracaso estrepitoso y varias leyendas urbanas a su alrededor, como que hay montañas de cartuchos enterrados en el desierto. En sí mismo es un juego flojo dentro del catálogo de Atari, pero hay cosas peores la verdad. Su mayor problema es que es muy confuso y que caerse en los pozos es un dolor de cabeza.
I hate this game so much...
It all started with the E.T. movie, I saw it with my husband and 3 children (1 girl and 2 boys) and we loved it, it was a very nice memory, we even bought a vinyl with the OST made by John Williams, it was amazing.
So when a game of the movie came out in 1982, we were all very excited!
My husband, Harry, worked at Atari, Inc. so he asked for the game to surprise us, but he decided to try it first, that's where the tragedy began...
He started playing a lot, I told him that he was going to hurt his eyes if he continued playing for so long, and he responded vaguely by saying something like "I'll be done soon, honey." Considering his frustrated dream of playing basketball, and not being able to due to a childhood injury, I ignored it at first, and was glad that he found a hobby.
I realized something was wrong, when one day I saw him at home, when he was supposed to be at work, carrying a refrigerator to the game room, I asked him what he was doing and he replied: SORRY, HONEY, I HAVE TO FIND THE PHONE PIECES, E.T. NEED MY HELP
I was so shocked that my head started to hurt, I didn't believe what was happening, I told him to go pick up the kids from school today, and after him whispered "sure" I went to bed. Later I woke up because someone was calling the phone, it was one of the children's teachers, asking if something had happened, because no one had come for them. I quickly went to get the children, and when I returned home to ask Harry for explanations, I found him drinking liters and liters of milk, non-stop, like a vampire sucking blood from a young lady, or a viking bathing in the blood of his enemies, while playing that damn game, he ignored my words, If I moved him away from the screen he would reposition himself to see it, if I stood in front of the screen he would move me away. Suddenly he stopped drinking milk and started mumbling something, it sounded very low, so I approached him to listen, and he was humming the damn song from the fucking video game. I got angry, I took a broom and broke the television, then he started crying and hugging the television shouting: E.T. E.T. E.T.!!!!
He asked me to do something, because E.T. needs his help, but I took the children and went to my mother's house for a few days.
Some time later, having assimilated everything a little, I saw news about E.T. game, buried in the desert, I laughed ironically thinking that the devil's game deserved it, but that was when I realized that among the images on the news, there was him, Harry, digging with his bare hands to look for the game, he even had blood on the tips of his fingers. How long were he digging? What was he doing there? How was it possible...
In the end I decided to forget about it and continue taking care of the children as a single mother, but seeing this game on my favorite website, backloggd, has brought me very bad memories...
It all started with the E.T. movie, I saw it with my husband and 3 children (1 girl and 2 boys) and we loved it, it was a very nice memory, we even bought a vinyl with the OST made by John Williams, it was amazing.
So when a game of the movie came out in 1982, we were all very excited!
My husband, Harry, worked at Atari, Inc. so he asked for the game to surprise us, but he decided to try it first, that's where the tragedy began...
He started playing a lot, I told him that he was going to hurt his eyes if he continued playing for so long, and he responded vaguely by saying something like "I'll be done soon, honey." Considering his frustrated dream of playing basketball, and not being able to due to a childhood injury, I ignored it at first, and was glad that he found a hobby.
I realized something was wrong, when one day I saw him at home, when he was supposed to be at work, carrying a refrigerator to the game room, I asked him what he was doing and he replied: SORRY, HONEY, I HAVE TO FIND THE PHONE PIECES, E.T. NEED MY HELP
I was so shocked that my head started to hurt, I didn't believe what was happening, I told him to go pick up the kids from school today, and after him whispered "sure" I went to bed. Later I woke up because someone was calling the phone, it was one of the children's teachers, asking if something had happened, because no one had come for them. I quickly went to get the children, and when I returned home to ask Harry for explanations, I found him drinking liters and liters of milk, non-stop, like a vampire sucking blood from a young lady, or a viking bathing in the blood of his enemies, while playing that damn game, he ignored my words, If I moved him away from the screen he would reposition himself to see it, if I stood in front of the screen he would move me away. Suddenly he stopped drinking milk and started mumbling something, it sounded very low, so I approached him to listen, and he was humming the damn song from the fucking video game. I got angry, I took a broom and broke the television, then he started crying and hugging the television shouting: E.T. E.T. E.T.!!!!
He asked me to do something, because E.T. needs his help, but I took the children and went to my mother's house for a few days.
Some time later, having assimilated everything a little, I saw news about E.T. game, buried in the desert, I laughed ironically thinking that the devil's game deserved it, but that was when I realized that among the images on the news, there was him, Harry, digging with his bare hands to look for the game, he even had blood on the tips of his fingers. How long were he digging? What was he doing there? How was it possible...
In the end I decided to forget about it and continue taking care of the children as a single mother, but seeing this game on my favorite website, backloggd, has brought me very bad memories...
This review contains spoilers
Too dificult, a difficulty level selection is needed.
It's horrendously frustrating, but once you understand how it words, and setting some bugs aside, it's not that hard and not as bad as the internet made it out to be.
Yeah, is bad as the legend says
not the worst but not at all a good experience either.