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Atari: Game Over - Yay! Netflix
Documentary on the ET game.
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XBox exclusive? Suck it, Microsoft. Also, WL2 has an easter egg where you find a huge cache of buried ET games in the desert.
Edited By Malcolm on 1416607308
Edited By Malcolm on 1416607308
Diogenes of Sinope: "It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."
What do they think I think happened?GORDON wrote:It's on Netflix.
It will probably correct what you think happened with that game. An hour and 6 long, it's worth a watch if only for the history lesson.
Diogenes of Sinope: "It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."
Not by itself. But it was certainly a kick to the balls at a time when they were already teetering on the brink of death.GORDON wrote:They think you think ET, and its developer, sunk Atari.
Diogenes of Sinope: "It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."
Re: Atari: Game Over - Yay! Netflix
Saw this in its entirety. Almost makes me wish I was born a couple decades earlier. Almost.
First off, about E.T. the game:
1) Does it get more hate than it deserves? Yeah. Howie was a decent programmer who said yes to a schedule that would have handed any other engineer an incomplete product. In that, it's remarkable.
2) On the flip side, fuck that game. It sucked, and it sucked hard. No one told him (Howard Scott Warshaw) his head was up his ass gameplay-wise while he was smashing technical barriers.
It's hilarious that it was more popular after it got buried than before.
As for the documentary itself, I'm a bit disappointed it didn't go over the real reasons why Atari died out, other than a crappy abridged epilogue in the form of a few lines each from the company bigwigs. I'd like to see the same type of film done on Commodore International and its C64, C128, and Amiga machines.
First off, about E.T. the game:
1) Does it get more hate than it deserves? Yeah. Howie was a decent programmer who said yes to a schedule that would have handed any other engineer an incomplete product. In that, it's remarkable.
2) On the flip side, fuck that game. It sucked, and it sucked hard. No one told him (Howard Scott Warshaw) his head was up his ass gameplay-wise while he was smashing technical barriers.
It's hilarious that it was more popular after it got buried than before.
As for the documentary itself, I'm a bit disappointed it didn't go over the real reasons why Atari died out, other than a crappy abridged epilogue in the form of a few lines each from the company bigwigs. I'd like to see the same type of film done on Commodore International and its C64, C128, and Amiga machines.
Diogenes of Sinope: "It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."
Re: Atari: Game Over - Yay! Netflix
Console Wars does a good job of the Sega story, if that interests you.
It's not me, it's someone else.
Re: Atari: Game Over - Yay! Netflix
Sega was the second to last console I ever bought. I played the fuck out of Sonic 2 and 3, NHL 94, 95, 96, X-Men, Jungle Strike, and others I'm most likely forgetting.
Diogenes of Sinope: "It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."
Re: Atari: Game Over - Yay! Netflix
Never had one, a college friend did, we played the hockey game to death.Malcolm wrote:Sega was the second to last console I ever bought. I played the fuck out of Sonic 2 and 3, NHL 94, 95, 96, X-Men, Jungle Strike, and others I'm most likely forgetting.
You'd probably like the book.
It's not me, it's someone else.
Re: Atari: Game Over - Yay! Netflix
I'm in need of new holiday reading fodder. I might look it up.TheCatt wrote:You'd probably like the book.
Diogenes of Sinope: "It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."