so my mom just found my old atari
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VangelicSurgeon
Three Star General
wait frostgiant what was the first game you posted called? I played that all the time!! so good.
FrostGiant
Mr. Pibb > Dr. Pepper
The screenshot? That was Vanguard. You had those 4 way shooters and you could got through the E and become invincible for a while. Then you got to that one screen where you had to shoot those eggs.
OMG STAMPEDE!!!!!!!!!!!!! i almost forgot about that game! I LOVED that game! i used to ride horses when i was a kid and i was like woohoo! about that game (p.s. i was not a 'horse person' though)
goatschool
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FalseTodd said:
cite your source.
i am willing to lay down money that this was written by a "website journalist", most likely still swimming around in his dad's junk when the target audience for this game was appreciating it, TOTALLY.
the fact of the matter is that all of you E.T. haters are wrecked, brain-sludged poofs who get off on wearing cocoa-puff logo shirts you bought in the mall because you think retro is cool.
fuck you all, and break out some conflict LPs while you're at it because you're commodifying everything. motherfuckers.
and xfer, your reasoning and spin control is on a quality par with any storyline of any acclaim movie adaptation on any console that ever existed
VangelicSurgeon
Three Star General
go nick!
seriously guys. i must have been YOUNG when E.T. came out. i remember it was like totally considered awesome by just about everyone when i got it for xmas.
seriously guys. i must have been YOUNG when E.T. came out. i remember it was like totally considered awesome by just about everyone when i got it for xmas.
VangelicSurgeon
Three Star General
ET I think was the first movie that made the film companies sit up and say "yeah, we really CAN adapt a solid movie from a video game."
It paved the way for such classics as Street Fighter: the Game: the Movie, Super Mario Brothers, and Vanilla Sky.
It paved the way for such classics as Street Fighter: the Game: the Movie, Super Mario Brothers, and Vanilla Sky.
avi
W3RK3R
FrostGiant
Mr. Pibb > Dr. Pepper
xfer
I JERK OFF TO ARCTOPUS
goatschool
Member
see preppy gets it.
josh IF ONLY they had kept going in the tradition of exellence that E.T. established, we wouldn't have to deal with "total recall" or "matrix:whatever" as we know them today
josh IF ONLY they had kept going in the tradition of exellence that E.T. established, we wouldn't have to deal with "total recall" or "matrix:whatever" as we know them today
xfer
I JERK OFF TO ARCTOPUS
methinks goatschool must've had an alien buddy of his own to help him through a difficult childhood of playing dungeons and dragons and dressing up like a terrorist for halloween.
goatschool
Member
no, that was godzilla's son, minya. after my parents got divorced, the godzilla gang were my friends. i used to go to sleep fantasizing that minya and i would walk to school together every day.
having said that, toby, if you read this, i suggest you steer mr. zorn away from this board because if he sees the aggregate cultural tastebuds that these people sport like warthog tusks -- you're done
having said that, toby, if you read this, i suggest you steer mr. zorn away from this board because if he sees the aggregate cultural tastebuds that these people sport like warthog tusks -- you're done
FalseTodd
Skirt Wizard
goatschool said:
From MSN.com: "You've seen the movie, Don't play the Game" by Mark Van de Walle
Historically, movie video games suck, a trend that dates back to the Atari age. Chris Charla, who designed the game Disney's Tarzan, said at a recent conference that "ET for the 2600 really works hard to earn its reputation as one of the worst games ever made." Charla went on to say that "in the years after, ET almost destroyed the game industry," licensed games "became synonymous with slapped-together mediocrity." From that perspective, Enter the Matrixis right up there at the top end of the curve. Dave Perry, whose company Shiny won the Matrix game sweepstakes, knows that: The first game he ever made, way back in the days of the Sega Genesis, was calledGlobal Gladiators. Based on a McDonald's license, the game featured the side-scrolling, platform-jumping adventures of a bunch of kids who traveled the world and fought evildoers against a backdrop of Golden Arches and Mickey D's clamshell boxes.
So shut up, please.
goatschool
Member
Chris Charla, who designed the game Disney's Tarzan, said at a recent conference
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i'll shut up after you kill me.
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i'll shut up after you kill me.
xfer
I JERK OFF TO ARCTOPUS
i also want to point out that buried in a giant pit in, i think, New Mexico right now are tens of thousands of unsold E.T. cartridges that had to be hidden with a bulldozer from the world.
so go levitate out of a pit in New Mexico! with a bagful of your precious cartridges!
so go levitate out of a pit in New Mexico! with a bagful of your precious cartridges!
goatschool
Member
okay to be honest here, i'm just trying to see what it was like to argue from a fannish perspective.
but i really liked E.T.
but i really liked E.T.
avi
W3RK3R
goatschool
Member
see the thing is xfer, i read that article too, somewhere, and what i question is the percentage of atari 2600 owners, especially kids, who were "discriminating gamers" at that point.
i think the ET designer dude is like George Tenet, taking the fall for a shitty overpressing move by his company.
i think the ET designer dude is like George Tenet, taking the fall for a shitty overpressing move by his company.
