A Canadian multimedia company just got permission from the owners of a municipal landfill in NM to dig for ancient artifacts. Specifically they're after the legendary ET Atari game. Supposedly many unsold copies of the really bad game were disposed of in this dessert dump.
The Guardian wrote:
It is believed that nine articulated lorries full of ET games and other Atari toys delivered their shipments to the landfill in 1983.
I played a lot of Pitfall, I know that. Never played ET, but at this point it might be fun to excavate old Atari games. What the hell else is there to do?
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I played ET on the Atari. I honestly don't remember it being that bad. You had to actually read the instructions so I think that played into it; you couldn't just grab the game and start into it. It wasn't a great game but it was playable. It wasn't any worse in concept or execution than the Raiders of the Lost Ark game. I think it was just over-produced for the size of the video game market and then got a reputation for being worse than it was.
You want a bad Atari game, look at their terrible port of Pac-Man. It's a flickering buggy crapfest. And, in the run up to it, it was so anticipated that it was being sold everywhere. Like Beanie Babies in the early 2000's, you'd find hardware stores and gas stations selling $50 pre-orders. Then you got this...
Until Pac-Man eats a ghost, you can't even tell if that's several ghosts the system can't draw at once or one single wraith madly teleporting around the maze. And to add insult to injury, it was just lazy programming. The programmer had a guaranteed pay out from it and the whole project was just half-assed. Look at what this guy produced homebrew for the same Atari 2600 console:
It wasn't any worse in concept or execution than the Raiders of the Lost Ark game.
I had a strange fascination with Tsetse flies after playing that game as a child.
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This Canadian multimedia company, are they French?
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Fuel Industries is an Ottawa, Ontario based online interactive and marketing agency. Founded in 1999 by Mike Burns, Jeff Doiron, Dave Ozipko and Brian Nesbitt, Fuel Industries employs over 85 people and has an office in Los Angeles.