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Raiders of the Lost Ark is one of the best games for the Atari 2600 and I say this without any nostalgia for the title. It's an early adventure game and has a k
by glimshe 9mo ago
Raiders of the Lost Ark is one of the best games for the Atari 2600 and I say this without any nostalgia for the title. It's an early adventure game and has a kind of complexity absent in most Atari 2600 games which, based on today's standards, are largely stupid. I've discovered things about this game years later by reading a walkthrough... It has a point system similar to the Sierra games because some activities are actually optional, a breakthrough feature.
In fact, the Howard Scott Warshaw works are great: Yars Revenge, with simple but classic gameplay and E.T., the victim of one of the most unfair public lynchings of a game ever.
- vee-kay 9mo agoWhy did the E.T. game such public backlash though? The E.T. movie was popular among kids and parents. One would think a game about it, would be popular too, if it worked recently.
- direwolf20 9mo agoBad collision detection with respect to the character appearance, and the game not being understandable if you didn't thoroughly read the manual. http://www.neocomputer.org/projects/et/ http://www.neocomputer.org/projects/et/
- addled 9mo agoWhen I was six, a cousin about to leave for college gave me his 2600, my first console. With it came not one, but two (!) copies of E.T. So I had a backup in case I accidentally dropped one in a pit or sinkhole…
- kgwxd 9mo agoOr double the pleasure of intentionally throwing it in a pit or sinkhole...