ET yellow man steals my phone-- now what?

+Propane13 · January 7, 2013

It's a terrible topic title, but at least it's to the point.

When playing ET, how do I get things to "reset"?

Sometimes all of my phone pieces get snatched, and the question-marks seem to lose their ability to work. I can only find pieces by randomly falling in pits.

Or, on a related note, I feel that something similar happens sometimes with the Reese's pieces-- they disappear, and I need to find more.

Is there something I'm supposed to do to "reset things"?

-John

rockman_x_2002 · January 7, 2013

It should reset on its own, I'm thinking. As for the trial-and-error way of finding phone pieces, there's a better method than that. It's all described in the manual, which is one of the more frustrating things about the game. Without the manual, you're pretty well hosed in trying to figure out what the symbols at the top of the screen mean.

http://www.atariage.com/manual_html_page.html?SoftwareLabelID=157

Hopefully that will help some. It's a bit strange when you think about it, but for all the flak this game gets, it really was quite ahead of its time in that it featured a fairly robust dynamic action button system (same button did a hundred bajillion different things, depending on what the current action icon was). Something not seen again until later consoles, in fact.