E.T. cartridges found in infamous Atari landfill

Re:E.T. cartridges found in infamous Atari landfill by kstenerud on Saturday April 26, 2014 @05:28PM (#7652814)

I actually liked the E.T. game. It was probably one of the games I played the most as a child (next to Pitfall). Pac Man, on the other hand, was terrible on the Atari.

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Re:E.T. cartridges found in infamous Atari landfill by morganvachon on Saturday April 26, 2014 @07:16PM (#7653119)

Atari Pac-Man was terrible, but my dad loved it. My first Atari (along with that game and many others) ended up in the closet throughout the 80s. In the early 90s, while I was playing SNES with all of my high school friends, my dad pulled the Atari out of the closet to "show us kids a real game". Apparently he had grown up on arcade Pac-Man in the 70s, and found the Atari Pac-Man to be much more difficult and therefore a worthy challenge.

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Re:E.T. cartridges found in infamous Atari landfill by justinhj on Saturday April 26, 2014 @09:59PM (#7653592)

Me too. I was a kid. I got 2 games a year, one for Xmas and one for my birthday. Even if the game wasn't fun I would have played it to death.

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