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Re:E.T. cartridges found in infamous Atari landfill by jimminy on Saturday April 26, 2014 @03:58PM (#7652572)
Having "played"` the game when I was much younger, they were probably trying to save some face and pretend the mess never existed.

` It's not really playable because of horrible collision detection and no mentions of your objective, AFAIR.

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Re:E.T. cartridges found in infamous Atari landfill by bluedino on Saturday April 26, 2014 @04:03PM (#7652586)
Some guy fixed most of that stuff - http://www.neocomputer.org/projects/et/
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Re:E.T. cartridges found in infamous Atari landfill by jimminy on Saturday April 26, 2014 @04:16PM (#7652622)
Yeah I've read that article before.

Of course it doesn't change the fact that what was shipped on the cartridges 30 years ago was crap, or the fact it took 30 years for someone to decide to fix it. Atari's decision remains the same, in my opinion.

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