Irate gamer reviews E.T.

[8th lutz]

E.T. Atari Video Game Review Part 1 -

E.T. Atari Video Game Review Part 2 -

Edited August 6, 2008 by 8th lutz

[homerwannabee]

E.T. Atari Video Game Review Part 1 -

E.T. Atari Video Game Review Part 2 -

The amazing thing is they followed the Atari 2600 E.T. with two more cruddy games.

[Artlover]

E.T. Atari Video Game Review Part 1 -

E.T. Atari Video Game Review Part 2 -

The amazing thing is they followed the Atari 2600 E.T. with two more cruddy games.

Even more amazing is that RT hasn't replied yet!

[ComputerSpaceFan]

E.T. wasn't that bad, you just need the manual and a good method of getting out of the pits. Then it's really good.

http://www.randomterrain.com/atari-2600-memories-et.html

[Rom Hunter]

Another loser who doesn't know how to play this game.

 

Instead of reading the manual, he walks around with a shovel trying to be funny.

 

How many of these so called reviewers will keep popping up, making the same mistakes over and over again?

 

You may or may not like the genre, but the only real flaw in this game is that you fall back into a pit if you keep pressing the joystick up (it takes five falls to figure that out with a normal human brain).

 

Other than that:

 

The game has a title screen.

The game has title music.

The game has sound-effects.

The game has multi-color characters.

The game has eight different screens.

The game plays different every single time.

The game contains four easter eggs.

The game contains tons of elements from the movie.

The game contains action and adventure in one.

 

And it was programmed in five weeks time!

 

I dare to say that it's by far the best VCS game ever written within the given time limit.

 

Edited August 7, 2008 by Rom Hunter

[+Random Terrain]

Even more amazing is that RT hasn't replied yet!

Didn't see it until now. You'd think people would get sick of doing the same type of review, even if they know how to play and are doing it as a 'joke'.

 

They should try doing reviews of other things:

 

Skiing - I keep falling down! I slide a little, fall, get back up, slide a little, fall . . . Ahhhh! Skiing F-ing sucks!

 

Basketball - I throw the ball down and the damn thing comes right back up and hits me in the nuts! I throw the ball down again and wham! My balls resign, detach themselves and run for the nearest exit. All I want to do is throw the ball down. Can't they make a ball that just stays where I throw it and doesn't come after my party pouch like a sack seeking missile? Basketball F-ing sucks!

 

Baseball - I swing and miss, swing and miss, swing and miss, then go sit down for a while until I get back up and swing and miss, swing and miss, swing and miss, then go sit down for a while until I grab a bat and bash my own skull in! Baseball F-ing sucks!

 

Ice Cream Cones - I go to the mall every day to make fun of all of the white trash idiots who feel they need to go to the mall every day. While I'm there, I get an ice cream cone. I raise it up and splat! Right into my forehead. Who invented these stupid things anyway? Can't they design an ice cream cone that doesn't make a beeline for your forehead? Ice cream cones F-ing suck!

[Artlover]

They should try doing reviews of other things:

My yard is full of pits. I can't walk around 5 feet without falling in a pit. My yard is freaking awesome!

[+RandomPerson]

E.T. Atari Video Game Review Part 1 -

E.T. Atari Video Game Review Part 2 -

The amazing thing is they followed the Atari 2600 E.T. with two more cruddy games.

Even more amazing is that RT hasn't replied yet!

 

There is no point cause Irate Gamer deletes any of the negative reveiws he gets from people who are making sense and not just dropping f bombs. RT would put him in his place and then 5 minutes later Irate would delete his coments I'm sure of it.

[GameboyReviewer]

The Irate Gmer wouldn't know a good game if it snuck up behind him and pushed him down a flight of stairs making him hit a display for total recall.

[ProperRogue]

Looking beyond the Atari for a moment , I can appreciate this guy's time & effort in putting together a video for the web , however ... if it's one thing I can't stand , it's dimestore knockoffs.

 

He tries so hard to emulate AVGN , but the old adage goes ... Often imitated , never duplicated.

 

That said , can't anyone just come up with their own ideas?

 

IrateGamer should spend his time producing a more unique video. He obviously has the tools.

 

My worthless 2 pennies. Sorry!

 

 

(devoted AVGN follower)

[Gregory DG]

I'm not even going to bother clicking those links. I already feel it'd be a waste of my time...

[Jess Ragan]

I'm not the biggest fan of Angry Video Game Nerd, so a knock-off like this one appeals to me even less. I love the way this guy rewrites history and reality to his liking... for instance, he claims that YouTube was "hacked" to make it look like his videos came after AVGN's, when we all know they WERE created after AVGN's. The convenient comment editing is pretty annoying, too. Sometimes you have to do a little clean -on your YouTube videos to get rid of trolls and advertising, but he takes it to ridiculous extremes by removing all dissent from his videos. Weak!

[Zap!]

Neither the IG or AVGN should review any games made before the NES era. They both were born in the early 80's. Far too young to see the 2600 the first time around.

[Sayton]

Neither the IG or AVGN should review any games made before the NES era. They both were born in the early 80's. Far too young to see the 2600 the first time around.

 

I take that as a personal insult. I was born in 82 and I've done quite a few 2600 reviews. And I've received positive feedback. Granted, I wasn't born in the 70's, but the 2600 is the FIRST system I started playing games on.

[Zap!]

Neither the IG or AVGN should review any games made before the NES era. They both were born in the early 80's. Far too young to see the 2600 the first time around.

 

I take that as a personal insult. I was born in 82 and I've done quite a few 2600 reviews. And I've received positive feedback. Granted, I wasn't born in the 70's, but the 2600 is the FIRST system I started playing games on.

 

Send me a link to your reviews. I've probably never seen them, I'd love to check them out.

 

Don't take it personal, no harm intended. I just believe the best classic reviewers should be no younger than 33-38, in that range. Since you were born in '82, let's say you got your 2600 at age 3. It's already 1985, well past it's prime and into the crash. By the time you were a more experienced gamer, it was more like 1988-1990, the NES Era, with the 16-bit Revolution already here or coming soon.

 

I myself was born at the end of '72, and I consider myself too young for the early part of gaming. I missed the entire Pong Era (as I was either a fetus or so young I was still pooping myself), and by the time the 2600 was released in '77, I was about to turn 5, and no way were my middle class parents about to buy me something over $300.

 

However, you may be an exception. If you did your research and history, you can effectively review a game that you didn't play the first time around.

Edited December 1, 2008 by White Knight

[moycon]

If you did your research and history, you can effectively review a game that you didn't play the first time around.

 

It's definitly a plus to have been born during the period the game was release. No amount of research is going to make you forget all the other games that have been available for years on other, newer systems. We cherish many Atari games, not because they are the best games ever made, but because that's the best we had at the time. Me personally, Now today, I can't play many of the Atari 2600 games for any length of time without getting bored quick, back in the day however, I'd play those same games for hours and hours and hours. Not sure why anyone would be insulted for being born too late though, it's not like you can't review a game made before you were born, you just can't review it the same way a person who was there can. See I could write a book about Vietnam and it could be a damn good book, still probably wouldn't be half the book someone could write if they were there in the field. Same thing here.

[kroogur]

I guess that makes me the odd man out while i very much enjoy quality and informative reviewers like Dr. Ashens, Jess Ragan, and Little Miss Gamer i sometimes enjoy the zany over the top ranting and craziness of the Irate Gamer.

 

The Irate Gamers reviews of Jaws,Tetris,and Super Mario 2 are particularly good. I never saw him as a copycat in fact i look at the AVGN/Irate Gamer situation like this it's all down to delivery for example the three major networks all have 6:00 news right? they all report on the same top stories are they copying or plagiarizing because they are covering the same topics using similar footage and words? no, yet some folks prefer one over the other due to the delivery of the story whether it's the way they speak, the way they look, facial expressions, sincerity, etc..... same with the Irate Gamer i just prefer his humor over James.

 

Also worth a mention is a Youtube reviewer that goes by The Happy Video Game Nerd he's pretty good.

Edited December 1, 2008 by kroogur

[Sayton]

My reviews are found in my sig. In case they don't show (cause it didn't show up until I logged in to read this topic) it's:

 

www.youtube.com/TheLegend2600

 

Now I've done a "crazy" review whatever of Sneak n Peak...but I mean seriously, why do you make a video game of hide and go seek? That's just something I never could understand. All my others as far as I know are "normal" I guess, but there are times when I might TRY to add a little humor...or at least not be so mono-tone.

 

Btw, I bet my E.T. review is better than his. I haven't watched his at all, but at least I know how to play the game

[kroogur]

My reviews are found in my sig. In case they don't show (cause it didn't show up until I logged in to read this topic) it's:

 

www.youtube.com/TheLegend2600

 

Now I've done a "crazy" review whatever of Sneak n Peak...but I mean seriously, why do you make a video game of hide and go seek? That's just something I never could understand. All my others as far as I know are "normal" I guess, but there are times when I might TRY to add a little humor...or at least not be so mono-tone.

 

Btw, I bet my E.T. review is better than his. I haven't watched his at all, but at least I know how to play the game

 

Not bad! i'll check the rest of them out tonite

[eyg2181]

i too, like the review for jaws, tetris, and super mario 2. but i enjoyed jaws on the NES. i have the first season of the irate games on dvd. it includes jaws and smb2, but not tetris or et. thats probably on volume 2

[Jess Ragan]

I guess that makes me the odd man out while i very much enjoy quality and informative reviewers like Dr. Ashens, Jess Ragan, and Little Miss Gamer i sometimes enjoy the zany over the top ranting and craziness of the Irate Gamer.

 

Also worth a mention is a Youtube reviewer that goes by The Happy Video Game Nerd he's pretty good.

 

Ashens is awesome, definitely. Good choice there. He made fun of the dumb widescreen format that YouTube just adopted, and I got a real kick out of that. The Happy Video Game Nerd is great because he's entertaining AND well versed in gaming history.

[Atarifever]

I'm not even going to bother clicking those links. I already feel it'd be a waste of my time...

A review of a game that is constantly made fun of far worse than it deserves on the internet!? The review is going to be given in the over exaggerated tone of people that have rewritten the games' history!? Given by a guy who copies the terrible act of a guy I can't stand!? Wow! If anyone needs me I'll be setting my computer room on fire!

Edited December 1, 2008 by Atarifever

[yoshilime]

when i saw this, i thought "man, thats a horrible game!" but, i ended up buying a copy. turns out, its not as bad as some games, i kind of like it. i like the AVGN because his are sarcastic, and he makes that clear.