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I tend to believe Howard Scott Warshaw when he says that if such a thing was happening, he'd have heard it on the grape vine (and been there to get his picture taken on top of the pile). I would want to dig up that NY Times article and see who wrote it and what else he had written. Anyway, I've known Howard for 30 some odd years and he tends to be frighteningly right most of the time

Excuse me for butting in here and I hope I'm not breaking rules by cross posting this here and in MarketPlace (I promise this is the last place I'll post it). HSW asked me to stop by and let you all know that we posted a contest on his web site today. Just a silly little thing for you Easter Egg fiends You see, Howard couldn't resist slipping his signature into the Once Upon Atari DVD. And now he wants to see just how serious you are about such things. (figures he'd have to make his DVD into a game, eh?) Soooooo those of you who own it, rev up the ole DVD machine and start looking. If you think you have found it, [*] take yourself out to the site at www.scottw.com; [*] scroll down the left-hand column to the news headlines (under the special price announcement); [*] Click on the link to read the instructions; [*]and send in your answer using the form. first one who finds it gets a small token of our appreciation (believe me, it's pretty small!)

STOP... put that email down! Seriously, I have just posted a special find-the-EasterEgg contest on HSW's site. This is something we had planned for a while, and we were just getting the copy written yesterday. Soooooooooooooo If you think you know where the signature is on the Once Upon Atari DVD, then [*] take yourself out to the site at www.scottw.com; [*] scroll down the left-hand column for the news headlines (under the special price announcement); [*] Click on the link to read the instructions; [*]and send in your answer using the form. Hey! if you're going to share a secret with anyone, share it with the man himself

hmmm Interesting -- so you're an editor of the tome that hosts 101 Uses for E.T.-- Projects for the most useless of Atari games *looking across the continent at HSW* perhaps we should raise the price just for this guy or ...maybe not (edited to add...LOL just noticed you wrote it too! )

Heh, I'll vouch for this. I had our Mr. Warshaw on the phone looking at your messages (I'm an old old friend in charge of care and feeding of his web site and was merely tracing an unusually high referral rate to this place when I found this discussion). He let out quite a roar at your sig line. It will probably be in his top ten collection for a while. (It's a good thing I never remember punch lines--keeps his act fresh longer) Anyway, just poking my head in here to look around. Glad I finally got him to post! (and I probably should duck when he sees this )

oops sorry about the second post but I said: Well, you had already made the list! I just fixed the title so it looks like you

Well thanks for the link! I'll be adding it to the link list on hsw's newly fixed up Once Upon Atari site (since that is one of my current functions and why I began surfing the atari forums of late). I notice you link to his personal page. That is on the list for redesign and probably will move to his scottw.com domain soon--that is if I quit surfing and start designing .

Howard and I have been friends since we were kids and we share initials (so it was cool to find my initials in his games ) Yes I will let him know and probably encourage him to drop in here once or twice when he can find a moment. Having said that, I'll admit that when I first played ET I didn't know it was Howard's game (we had lost touch for about two very important years) and I also was thrown by the pits. But it was no worse than many others and considering the production time frame, it wasn't that bad! I think that if it hadn't been hyped to the nth degree, it may have had a chance. Anyway, yes I'm a newbie here so thanks for the tips!

in answer to the original original question I liked ET because my best friend designed it. I actually never really played it much. Yars was much more fun. But then I'm strange, my other favorites were pacman, space invaders, and superman and considering this how this conversation is going, I'm likely to get flamed. Very strange bird, I am... (I am the other hsw)