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Junk to genius? hmmm why is it that E.T. has to be one or the other?? Why not its "kinda cool" or average. Oh.. burned on x-mas u say?, poor little kiddies. even kids in the 80's were brats with no attention span. damn... i'm exaggerating a bit, but.... the fact they had an x-mas tree and 1 gift should be enough. I'd rather add an okay/mediocre game to my atari collection, then to be starving on x-mas or in the hospital. Just tossing that out there. YA.. i'm laying it on pretty thick. lol

Hmm... Sparks. Disco-electro heaven. lol. Interesting, I don't know this song. but I do know the new wave band Gleaming Spires and their songs, which I think was formed from two guys in that Sparks band.

Woah... Nice moves! Your new atariage name should read... '2600 Double Dragon master'. I thought I was pretty good at this game but I haven't "won" it. You did it on the real hardware too... Cool!

It seemed like all kinds of games back then had single-color characters and a crap load of flicker, but E.T. had multicolored characters and no flicker. How horrible! You would have a screen with 4 pits and ........nothing else. ok then another screen with 4 pits. Yeah great graphics here man. Those pits sure looks real. I have to hold on to my seat so I don't fall in. That must be why ET keeps falling in. Those pits look so real and so big... LOOK OUT ! As a kid we all got stuck in the pits. Not so much because we didn't learn the controls but because that really is all there was. Now people are saying that was the point of the game and you had to fall in the fall in the pits to get items. Well that just makes it worse ! I had held out the hope that after a maze of pits you got to the place where the real game started. Yes the point is to get in the wells.. and collect # pieces. It's better then falling in for no reason, or dieing after falling in.. that would be truly frustrating. I don't get why the pits/wells... are such a bother to some, Pitfall one of the best selling Atari games has pits/lakes/swamp... covering half the ground you have to run across, sometimes without a roap, sometimes with alligators in them! This doesn't bother anyone ever... I find that a bit ironic. Sure, it's dressed up nicer...plays out smoother then E.T. and the vine swing is a fun touch. But again, if you fall in "ONE" pit with Pitfall, u die... and there's nothing in any of them to help you solve the game. I'm not saying Pitfall is worse then E.T. or that it's programmed worse, no... I'm just comparing the challenge and saying E.T.'s well obession isn't the worst frustration ever. lol At least E.T. isn't eaten by an alligator in the pits, talk about unforgiving. There's only one screen where the wells/pits are difficult to move around. 1 screen has no Pits at all. It's not like there's 8 pits on every single screen. You can just use game option 2 or 3 if you can't get around them.. and you can take your time. No villans.

It seemed like all kinds of games back then had single-color characters and a crap load of flicker, but E.T. had multicolored characters and no flicker. How horrible! You would have a screen with 4 pits and ........nothing else. ok then another screen with 4 pits. Yeah great graphics here man. Those pits sure looks real. I have to hold on to my seat so I don't fall in. That must be why ET keeps falling in. Those pits look so real and so big... LOOK OUT ! As a kid we all got stuck in the pits. Not so much because we didn't learn the controls but because that really is all there was. Now people are saying that was the point of the game and you had to fall in the fall in the pits to get items. Well that just makes it worse ! I had held out the hope that after a maze of pits you got to the place where the real game started. Did the programmer even see the movie? What does screen after screen of multiple pits have to do with ET ? The "Pits" were designed as part of the "challenge" and a place to get the # phone pieces. It has nothing to do with the movie. A lot of games on movies were changed some, *Alien* I don't remember any of them gathering eggs??! Oh well... it's 2600 after all. Let it go... and with Atari 2600... I'm surprised E.T. had followed the movie as well as it did...! Graphics were downgraded a bit (meaning the wells/pits) to fit it all in (gameplay/options/screens)... So, with only 6 weeks to make a video game about E.T. I think the programmer did an excellent job. I have fun with it. Keep in mind, many (not all) online are very unforgiving of this game... not one thing about it is let slide... but I think the true 2600 fans and those who understand what games were like in early 80's can get that it's not always gonna be flawless, especially in a quest game. They know Atari's limitations.

Sure, I understand. But, what I was getting at was, this AGH Reviews.. well, he trying to pass his "opinion" as facts or that he picks which games to avoid, or what to play... and I can be strict in my own opinion and say I think he's wrong many times. I just don't think this dude is clear or completely direct. I think he votes according to how much he likes a game, not by the real quality or gameplay, like his ratings claim to do.

So, AVGN IS going to do a video on E.T.?? Or is that just wishfull thinking? I'd watch his video of E.T. and laugh... because he pokes fun at many games... regardless if they are even bad or not. No hair off my back. He's creative enough to pull it off without being insulting to his audience. You hate old games that require manuals?? Hmmm even if it's not required, you can learn a lot.. like with Fantastic Voyage or Star Voyager... I didn't know till recently with Star Voyager you can use lazers by flipping the left difficulty switch to A! I'd like to have your manuals. hah You really get the best gaming experience from reading them... even if it's only a simplistic game like Stampede or Oink!.

AGH'S ATARI 2600 REVIEW PAGE Well, this webpage has a slew of Atari 2600 game reviews... and I don't agree with many of them! They seem very random, and often all over with the number ratings. Have a look, http://www.atarihq.com/reviews/2600 Even gave 20th century fox a 'bad name', in terms of making bland games?! I bet to differ! I like Fox games that were made. I love Fantastic Voyage, Porky's.. Alien was pretty cool and hell I even like Beany Bopper... lol. Quote by the reviewer...', ""Believe it of not, not all games published by Fox were bad or poorly licensed games. Sure, the vast majority of Fox's 2600 library is pretty bland, but a few games manage to stray from the pack."" ""Overall, it's not bad by Fox standards, but that's not anything to write home about."" Here's some disfunctional reviewing... Title Bermuda Triangle Publisher Data Age System Atari 2600 (VCS) Graphics 7 Sound 6 Gameplay 7 Overall 7 Reviewer Keita Iida Title Barnstorming Publisher Activision System Atari 2600 (VCS) Graphics 7 Sound 6 Gameplay 8 Overall 8 Reviewer Keita Iida Title Bachelor Party Publisher Mystique System Atari 2600 (VCS) Graphics 5 Sound 4 Gameplay 7 Overall 7 Reviewer Keita Iida Title Fantastic Voyage Publisher Fox Video Games System Atari 2600 (VCS) Graphics 6 Sound 6 Gameplay 5 Overall 5 Reviewer Keita Iida Title Alien Publisher Fox Video Games System Atari 2600 (VCS) Graphics 4 Sound 5 Gameplay 5 Overall 5 Reviewer Keita Iida So.. Barnstorming and Bachelor Party are better then Alien and Fantastic Voyage? OK...

Hey more love for Reactor! Yes sir. This is one of those games, I had a good feeling about after buying it, I even looked at VGC website when he first reviewed Reactor, it had a rating of 'B.' Then sometime later it fell to a disasterous F. I even emailed Dave twice asking if he could try it again, he did! but once again he failed to give the game the credit it deserves. ANOTHER F.. common' now, I'd say even if you find Reactor very flawed or unfun it shouldn't go lower then C or D. 'F' to me, is for games that fail in every sense. Like slot machine or space jockey.

Here's a rough top ten list, I picked games that I really like and play the most. Not by the quality of them. 1.E.T. 2.Reactor 3.Centipede 4.Fantastic Voyage 5.Yar's Revenge 6.Porky's 7.Ms.Pac-man 8.Zaxxon 9.Othello 10.Krull 11.Asteroids/Stargate/Venture etc... Frogger probably would have made it, but I wore it out years ago. Don't play it much now.

Reactor is a very good game. What makes you not like it? Mouse Trap just doesn't cut it on the 2600. Many times I wanted to open/close doors and I turned into a dog instead. Once you fire it up on the ColecoVision there is just no going back to the 2600 version. Mouse Trap may work well on the 5200, however. Mouse Trap... eah..! I don't like that game, I keep trying and it hasn't taken off yet.

I considered putting Reactor in my top 10. Great to see someone else enjoying this underrated gem. I really like Reactor. I may even say I love Reactor. People really should read the instructions on that one, it improves your Reactor experience and gives you a better understanding. Although I liked it even not reading the manual.

I played Defender a lot back in the '80s and it does not deserve to be mentioned in the same breath with Pac-Man and E.T. In contrast, Pac-Man was a major disappointment only seconds after hitting the reset switch. Defender pales in comparison to Defender Arcade and Stargate, but it was not a "straight to the bargain bin" release that these reviewers would lead you to believe. then by the year 1990-1991... i played pac-man for atari 2600 first time ever.. and I felt dissapointed... even though I knew it was different to mrs pac-man I knew it was a stinker and should be more or better then it was. With saying that though, I think pac-man it's a fun-ish game if you give it a chance. Just get used to it, lower the standards u have. The fact that you played Pac-Man for the first time almost 10 years after its release may be the reason for the difference in opinion. What difference in opinion? I thought it was bad my first time playing it... I agree with what you're saying about it. BUT for me even with dissapointment pac-man is still a playable 'average/fair' game. I may have played it at an arcade once before trying the atari home version. I could have played pac-man sooner then 1990. but I had bigger selection of Odyssey2... as we were an Odyssey2/Commodore 64 family.

1st run... 0:30.27----check out the pretty colors.

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I played Defender a lot back in the '80s and it does not deserve to be mentioned in the same breath with Pac-Man and E.T. In contrast, Pac-Man was a major disappointment only seconds after hitting the reset switch. Defender pales in comparison to Defender Arcade and Stargate, but it was not a "straight to the bargain bin" release that these reviewers would lead you to believe. I agree to some level, even though I like Pac-man and E.T. the game mrs pac-man I remember being at my brothers friends house... watching them play mrs pac-man for colecovision, thought it looked awesome, then by the year 1990-1991... i played pac-man for atari 2600 first time ever.. and I felt dissapointed... even though I knew it was different to mrs pac-man I knew it was a stinker and should be more or better then it was. With saying that though, I think pac-man it's a fun-ish game if you give it a chance. Just get used to it, lower the standards u have.

Awwww, c'mon! I love beany bopper! Yeah, Beany Bopper is sweet! Get above 100K and bam! Insane.. simply insane. As for E.T, yeah, if you ever do get really good at the game.. faster humans. Nuff said. What R.T says about the game really is pretty much the undying truth about the software: he states constant fact. 3 pits only you ever have to go into. Heck, only one phone piece is on any given screen, so as long as the FBI agent doesn't take them from you and hide them again, all you have to do is go to the next pit screen, find the ? zone, get the phone piece and repeat. Escape the humans after you, find that elusive phone home zone, which should actually be your first priority, and then make the call, get to the forest, use the send humans home zone, then quickly get to that landing zone. Yeah, pits/wells are easy to deal with, just memorize the location of those wells. Float/spin around them, don't even have to enter them much just... find the (?) on the screen that will flash which well has a phone piece then, go in there, and do the same again till you're done collecting phone pieces. No need in going in every pit at random, just use the (?) method. I think this game really captured the feeling of being E.T. Also is fun to move that sucker around... and from reading the tips you posted Kurisu I realize that this game has really captured the feeling of the movie, the "getting him home" parts. Collecting reeces candy. He even gets sick like the movie, and die... yet can't die... entirely. His heart glows red too doesn't it? when ur E.T. game is over/lost? Would be funny if there was a variation to play as elliot... and E.T.'s miracle finger would cure ellliot from death. haha... what does elliot need to do?? get that blonde girls phone number. call her and escape together like romeo and juliet..but in E.T.s spaceship lol

Just got through playing Turmoil and my opinion hasn't really changed. VGC gave it an A. So I thought I was a lucky dude, and bought it 8/10 odd years ago. I assumed it would be like or as good as Beamrider or Tempest. Not even close. After I played it first time, I felt it was the only time the VGC had really overrated a game. I don't like those Fast Eddie looking graphics either "really ugly", and the stuff you shoot??? What is it?? Doesn't seem very threatning. Sounds in the game are 'irritating' to say the least... Somebody make it stop! Ok bein dramatic now, but nah.. this game doesn't do it for me, everything else is better.. except Froggo stuff. I think I prefer Laser Blast over this. Even if I respect this game more. Just isn't fun to me.

I like Superman. People don't like this one either?? I thought the programmers did just fine. Not an easy game to make in 1980. Only thing that I didn't like was the city terrain was confusing, I couldn't find the correct area but that's what mapping is for.