yipyop Posted February 29, 2012 Share Posted February 29, 2012 It's a diabolical computer virus! See 2 minutes in this news report from 1988. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
raskar42 Posted February 29, 2012 Share Posted February 29, 2012 it drops all your data into a pit. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miss 2600 Posted March 1, 2012 Share Posted March 1, 2012 What a lame report! That MIT student looks Amish. What's he doing with computers?! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
godzillajoe Posted March 1, 2012 Share Posted March 1, 2012 Thank God a young Geico caveman and magician Doug Henning were on the case. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toiletunes Posted March 1, 2012 Share Posted March 1, 2012 Apparently ET, as originally programmed, was pretty good. Unfortunately the game, as released, was infected with the Fall-Into-The-Pit virus. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SoulBlazer Posted March 1, 2012 Share Posted March 1, 2012 Kudos for the Osborne computer being used. Man, I feel old. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Master Phruby Posted March 1, 2012 Share Posted March 1, 2012 (edited) What movie was that at the end with Robert Vaughan? Edited March 1, 2012 by Master Phruby Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
raskar42 Posted March 1, 2012 Share Posted March 1, 2012 What movie was that at the end with Robert Vaughan? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virus_(1980_film) ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Master Phruby Posted March 1, 2012 Share Posted March 1, 2012 Thanks! I'll see if Netflix has it for streaming. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CastleofIllusion Posted March 2, 2012 Share Posted March 2, 2012 I showed my friends ET on Atari last week end, they thought is was as fun as a computer virus. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R.O.T.S Posted March 2, 2012 Share Posted March 2, 2012 I quite like the sound in the E.T game,especially of the spacecraft 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Syntaxerror999 Posted March 2, 2012 Share Posted March 2, 2012 That news channel gets the award for most random clip Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skud Posted March 3, 2012 Share Posted March 3, 2012 It was such a bad virus it caused the crash of 83 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AtariDude Posted March 3, 2012 Share Posted March 3, 2012 (edited) This was the virus created by Robert Morris, an MIT graduate student. The virus was not intended to do any harm. It was intended to just exist in the computer's memory and do nothing. It was his way of existing on the network virtually forever. The only problem was that when he coded the virus, he forgot to add into the program to check if a prior infection existed. So it would copy itself over and over onto the same system and it was this flaw that allowed them to discover it. Other than this one flaw, this program was supposed to an extremely well written program. Edited March 3, 2012 by AtariDude 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
7800Lover Posted March 4, 2012 Share Posted March 4, 2012 Was there even a pit in the ET movie? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eggomania Posted March 4, 2012 Share Posted March 4, 2012 Apparantly the person responsible for making this news story hated the ET game. Some people probably watched this thinking it was that game that caused the virus! Also, some of the computers they showed looked like they were used in the 1970's. People at MIT were still using ancient computers in 1988? Also, the report made it sound like it was an international crisis. Truth of the matter is that most people did not have modems for their computers (and many people didn't even have a computer) until the World Wide Web was readilly available in the mid 1990's. Still, it was an interesting news report to look at. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jhammond Posted June 20, 2012 Share Posted June 20, 2012 The "Pits" is not the problem with E.T., it's the frakin' F.B.I. agents that keep annoying you and stealing your stuff....AHHH! Pits are easy to deal with, but the F.B.I. agents are intolerable...I could like the game if it weren't for them. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Random Terrain Posted June 20, 2012 Share Posted June 20, 2012 The "Pits" is not the problem with E.T., it's the frakin' F.B.I. agents that keep annoying you and stealing your stuff....AHHH! Pits are easy to deal with, but the F.B.I. agents are intolerable...I could like the game if it weren't for them. Just send him back to Washington, D.C. or play on game 3. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mcAoIThBDyA 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nukey Shay Posted June 20, 2012 Share Posted June 20, 2012 Was there even a pit in the ET movie? No...just a small creek. http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6042/6237786124_2d24f8f340_z.jpg Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Schizophretard Posted June 20, 2012 Share Posted June 20, 2012 What a lame report! That MIT student looks Amish. What's he doing with computers?! Putting viruses in evil computers. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
raskar42 Posted June 20, 2012 Share Posted June 20, 2012 Just send him back to Washington, D.C. or play on game 3. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mcAoIThBDyA Robot Cary Grant needs to narrate more game videos. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Allan Posted June 20, 2012 Share Posted June 20, 2012 I got the impression that those MIT students were pretty happy about the virus. Allan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BydoEmpire Posted June 23, 2012 Share Posted June 23, 2012 That was pretty awesome. Where did that clip even fit in with the story. Weird. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Feralstorm Posted June 27, 2012 Share Posted June 27, 2012 That was pretty awesome. Where did that clip even fit in with the story. Weird. They must not have had a very large library of stock footage labeled "computer stuff" in 1988. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arkhan Posted June 27, 2012 Share Posted June 27, 2012 I got the impression that those MIT students were pretty happy about the virus. Allan That network guy looked like he was fully erect in his pants about the whole thing. In other news, I actually like the ET game. It isn't a bad game. It's just not very good. They tried to do too much. It should have been an arcade game. Bicycles, FBI agents, your brothers doofy friends, and all of that, would have made it a funner game. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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