I remember begging my parents to buy this when I was young. After getting it for my birthday, I played it about as long as the guy on the video and never touched it again....I can say that it's the only game I've only played for 10 minutes and still remember 35 years later.
I remember watching a documentary that the game was flawed so you couldn't complete it. I could never understand how to play it either, it just made no sense.
Yeah.. we could play that game with literally every game made before 1983. for instance... "Q-Bert": Do you like balls hitting you in the face, well I've got a game for you... etc.
"This game can't be that stupid." Welcome to my world at 4 years old. My sister recently gave me her Atari and all her cartridges...including this one 😂
@@fr3etrial314 yeah, because they didn't read the manual and just went in like every other simple VCS/2600 game. I studied the manual with the help of my mother at 6, played it, enjoyed it, beat it. Yeah, the game does have a few annoying issues, but they can easily by bypassed.
@@madmax2069 respect for reading the manual and actually learning the mechanics of the game. I think it’s fair to assume millions of people didn’t do this and just slammed the game.
I loved reading the manuals for those games. Every cartridge came with one. The annoying issues with this game are easily worked around. For instance, when you levitate out of the hole and reach the top screen, you move sideways while still "levitating". If you try to go straight up, you fall right back in. You can also save on expended energy by levitating immediately when you fall, catching yourself mid fall and having less distance to levitate upward (saves lots of energy).
That actually is what the manual says is happening: "If E.T.'s energy expires before he is rescued, Elliott will appear on screen to save the waning E.T. by merging with him. This 'emergency measure' results in a revived E.T. carrying 1500 energy units. Elliott can merge with E.T.three times per game. Once during a round, however, E.T. can encounter a wilted flower hidden in the bottom of a well. If E.T. is revives the flower, Elliott is given the ability to merge with E.T. one extra time."
Soooo he lands the spaceship and gets off, the ship leaves him and you spend the whole game calling another ship? Sounds like E.T. should stop drinking that beer.
And I believe this game was OK'd by Spielberg himself, after he play-tested it. And he'd been playing video games for quite some time already, so it wasn't an uninformed opinion or anything like that. The playability issues are kind of obvious, but compared to the flood of sub-par video games of that era, it wasn't really *that* bad. In fact, IIRC, this game sold like hotcakes, and many people were happily playing it for like 6 months until it started to get fashionable to call it the worst game ever. The difference is, the worst stinkers really didn't sell in the millions, so they are largely forgotten.
I was the best player at this game in my neighborhood and everybody hated me. No one ever wanted to play because they could never stay out of the pit or kept getting captured. Garbage game but I died laughing watching others play this.
"High Score" on Netflix brought me here and I needed to see how bad this game was. Based on this video, I can see why this is the worst video game ever. But the commentary from the guy on this video was so funny and cute HAHA!
Snippet from the manual: Sometimes E.T. will fall back into a well after he has levitated up to the planet surface. To prevent this, move E.T. right or left immediately after the scene changes from the well interior to the planet surface. E.T. will move from the well onto solid ground, in the same direction you move your Joystick.
@@queensgtmslim Oh look it's a triggered 11 year old child who can't respect opinions, can't spell correctly, and has a cancerous Ali-A profile picture thinking it's funny. Stop being in denial that Fortnite sucks. It does and you have to accept it.
OMFG I LOVE THIS VIDEO!!! Dude had me rolling playing this game. I needed this tonight so thank you. Thanks for being patient and sticking to playing the game. I was strangely amused by the difficulty of figuring it out.
You fall down a pit whenever: 1. Stepping on a darkened section of floor 2. Stepping vaguely near a darkened section of floor 3. Climbing out of a pit and spawning on top of a darkened section of floor 4. A baby cries somewhere on planet Earth
I remember spending hours trying to figure this game out as an 8 year old child that loved the movie. Between the timer, the pits, and being chased around I never did understand or even get close to what the plot of the game was. Pong and the battle tanks were always fun though.
Truly the worst game ever designed. Admittedly the poor developer was only given 15 days to complete the process (so I've heard) but DAMN!!!! Stand up and be recognised Dude, the "Worst Game Ever" crown is yours to keep!
Thanks for sharing this clip! I've heard this game was THE video game dumpster fire of all time. Looks like the critical review is spot on. This game makes you want to go back to work, crack open a book, visit the MVA, perhaps schedule a root canal if you need one or not.
I found the manual online, I think people hated the game because they didn't read the instructions and didn't know what to do, it's very well written and there are quite a few things to do.
***** Mmm I researched a bit more and I think there was a bug getting out of the holes but they knew about it because they say so in the instruction booklet. Maybe that was the problem. As the creator said, taking in account the time to develop it, it's a pretty decent game.
***** This one? I did, but it definitely looks like the poster didn't read the manual, after reading the manual everything makes sense, to be an atari game I think it's average. But you know more because I only played Pitfall for 5 minutes, that's all my Atari experience.
It had a rushed release to get it out on the market for the upcoming Christmas , they were told they had five and a half weeks to fully complete the game. Once it hit the market and did horrible and caused the Gaming crash of 1983 being a part of gaming history this cartridge was dump it off at a dump in New Mexico where they salvage them. And by the way do you need 3 pieces of the telephone to finish the game then you need to go to the sight of your ship and successfully make it under 9 seconds and the ship will take you back home and you beat the game you can only hold 9 of those little square blocks that actually are supposed to be Reeses pieces. I was lucky enough to get myself an original working copy of the cartridge in mint condition this Christmas however it was not from the dump site, if it was it could be up worth up to $30,000.
There are dozens of Atari 2600 games that are much worse than E.T. It's actually not as hard and frustrating as people make it out to be. With some patience and practice, I could call my ship to rescue me every time I played, and I was 13 years old at the time. When you rise out the pit, you have guide E.T. away from the dark area so you don't keep falling in.
I just watched the "Atari Game Over" movie" - it explains everything -, and wanted to see what the game was like. Thanks for giving us an unbiased look at the actual game. Looks like the super annoying holes were needed to find stuff, but even so it's pretty one dimensional dull.
My dad played this game when he was 11. He was born a year after the Magnavox oddessy came out. He also played the original mario. But they weren't his. He was too poor to get a console but his friends had them. I told my dad about how E.T killed the video game industry in 83' and how Nintendo literally pulled it from the grave in 1985.He said he never knew that.
Atari didn’t kill the industry. It’s not how economics work. That’s like saying Powell-Peralta killed skateboarding in the late 80’s and PlanB revived it. The home game console market was a complete revolution in the early 80’s. Suddenly a thing that never existed before in human history was now in every home. The companies who were there early were making a fortune. Other companies wanted to join the fun. The result was a market heavily saturated with choice, but also with a mixture of high-quality and low-quality content. This in turn led to a waning interest in consoles which led to the collapse. In effect, gaming was a fad and everyone wanted in - for a while. Like all fads, at some stage they die, only to later reappear. Gaming is no different.
My dad was the only person I knew that could bet this game. Everytime. I was poor so I had this console growing up it was my moms. My dad loved ET. I am good at his game because he helped me. Its actually really fun when you figure it out
I played this “game” as a kid then forgot it was the E.T. game that bombed so bad. Only things I remember was that walking shuffle sound, the bass womp when he extends his head, and spending aimless bored hours trying to figure out how to advance in the game, let alone beat it.
E.T forgets where he left his spaceship, so he steals all the weed in the world, gets really, high, steals a time machine, accidentally causes ww2 and this is how the world of frozen was created.
When I played this game years later I thought I had gotten a bad copy, like there was a glitch or something. I guess turns out that it was supposed to be meandering and pointless.
After the commentary of the developer I actually like the game. I think it's quite genius. It's a shame it has such bad reputation even though most people didn't play itm
My fav game on earth no game can pass the fun the graphics the sound effects the design everything is perfect so sad my copy has been missing after getting the milk
While I agree that continuously falling into the pits is frustrating as hell, if you read the instruction manual and practise a bit, it becomes a lot easier. I had this when I was a kid in the 80s and once I got the hang of it, it wasn't as bad as it might seem for the time. The falling down the pit issue is one of pixel perfect collision detection. If any part of E.T is touching a pit when he stops levitating, he will fall back into it.
Boy this really brings back memories. Memories of going around in circles and falling in a hole. I was like 6 when I got this game. Thought it was stupid, but tried it many times trying to figure it out. Finally gave up and suck with pacman and missile command.
Oh man this video is great! I wanted to show my 11 year old son this game and we watched this video. We were laughing so hard. Thank you! I have the old Atari and 3 of the ET games. It's been a couple of decades at least since last I've played it.
Omg. This video reminds me of being SOOOO frustrated as a kid trying to play this game & not know wth was going on. Thanks for the trip down memory lane.
Me sentí mal por perder tanto tiempo mirando este vídeo del juego... hasta que vi no soy el único. I felt bad for having wasted my time watching this game's video... til I saw I wasn't the only one.
I heard that the guy who made this basically coded it for four days, and then was forced to push it out on just four days worth of work. Mayhaps he could have had more quality with more time, but we won't ever know that.
The developer was pressured by the the CEO to make the game in 5 weeks so it could be sold by Christmas. I’d say it’s pretty damn good considering the average game at the time took 5 MONTHS to make. If not more.
I remember playing this game as a kid and having no idea what the hell I was doing. I got bored after about 5-10 minutes and started playing something else lol
people think this game sucks cuz the pits are hard to get out of but the trick is where-ever you exit the pit is where it will spawn you when it goes to the other map.. so OBVIOUSLY YOU HAVE TO FLOAT OUT OF THE PIT AT THE SIDES OF IT TO GET OUT EASILY. logic, bros. best game ever. only plebs float out the middle and expect to get out.
This game saved my life its wayyy better than RDR2 RDR1 GTA5 resident Evil4. This ET game is far better than these fake titles lol. I play hours and hours on end pure enjoyment every minute of it.
I had this game when it came out I was probably about 12 I could never work it out. I remember the house in the film but don’t remember seeing 2 colosseums like this game has! I can just see the arguments now between the Atari managers and the programmers - programmer “I need more time to do something decent” managers - “just get it done we need something quick and the suckers will buy it because it has ET in it who cares if it’s rubbish”
I've had trouble getting away from the pits too. Figured it was best to stop moving immediately after the screen changes, and then either work my way down or over instead of allowing myself to fall back in just because of his head dropping.
I played that as a kid. And that's all I remember about it as well - falling down a hole and not knowing what I should or shouldn't be doing to win it.
I was quite good at this game as a 2- or 3-year-old. The older kids would watch me play and become hypnotized. It was distracting and gratifying. I also figured out an exploit in Qbert that allowed me to kill the snake over and over until I reached whatever score I wanted.
The only gaming company that came back like Apple did is Nintendo. In fact, Nintendo did it repeatedly. Atari will never be able to pull off such a feat since they never had the same impact that companies like Nintendo and Apple had.
I remember begging my parents to buy this when I was young. After getting it for my birthday, I played it about as long as the guy on the video and never touched it again....I can say that it's the only game I've only played for 10 minutes and still remember 35 years later.
I legit had this exact same experience as a kid. So psyched to play it...did this same thing, and never again lol
how much was it back then ?
@@darksouls6014 It retailed at $39.99 for regular customers and $34.99 for Club Members, so definitely $100 some in today’s money.
I remember watching a documentary that the game was flawed so you couldn't complete it. I could never understand how to play it either, it just made no sense.
😭😭😭
If you love falling into holes ... well let me tell you buddy, I have the game for you.
Yeah.. we could play that game with literally every game made before 1983. for instance... "Q-Bert": Do you like balls hitting you in the face, well I've got a game for you... etc.
PitFall & PitFall2 represent!
What kind of idiot doesn't like falling into holes? I don't understand why this game was such a failure.
@@Andy-413 UHHMMMM
@@silverpuffle It's sarcasm.
I suppose the hole is the landfill site that the game will go into.
xD
hahahahah lol my total respects!!!
XD
xD
Ummmm sorry for replying in 2020 but i was gonna say that
How ironic is it that ET spends most of his time in a large hole in the ground, just like the all of the games
A shithole
Lol
Zing?
🙂
Yes! Good observation
Who else came here hearing that Atari's ET sucked and was curious why.
Yep
Same
List 25🙄
Saw it on carpetbaggers channel when he visited the museum off fail and it was there lol.
I came here because I am remaking this game on Unity and I wanted to know all its controls.
"This game can't be that stupid." Welcome to my world at 4 years old. My sister recently gave me her Atari and all her cartridges...including this one 😂
In case you didn't know I'm pretty sure you can sell that for like $1,500 if you don't want it
keep it, and beat the game, thats something not many people could say they did
@@fr3etrial314 yeah, because they didn't read the manual and just went in like every other simple VCS/2600 game. I studied the manual with the help of my mother at 6, played it, enjoyed it, beat it.
Yeah, the game does have a few annoying issues, but they can easily by bypassed.
@@madmax2069 respect for reading the manual and actually learning the mechanics of the game. I think it’s fair to assume millions of people didn’t do this and just slammed the game.
I loved reading the manuals for those games. Every cartridge came with one.
The annoying issues with this game are easily worked around. For instance, when you levitate out of the hole and reach the top screen, you move sideways while still "levitating". If you try to go straight up, you fall right back in.
You can also save on expended energy by levitating immediately when you fall, catching yourself mid fall and having less distance to levitate upward (saves lots of energy).
This is what evil nerds play for eternity in hell.
Underrated comment
this comment deserves more attention
Lol
They also play Pac-Man on the Atari 2600! Ohhh! the nerdinityyyyy!
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"Uhhh...A child appeared, and apparently he merged with me." Laughed really hard at that.
haha xd
Morse Code
"And that concludes the case for the defence your Honour."
Wait....
*oh*
That actually is what the manual says is happening: "If E.T.'s energy expires before he is rescued, Elliott will appear on screen to save the waning E.T. by merging with him. This 'emergency measure' results in a revived E.T. carrying 1500 energy units. Elliott can merge with E.T.three times per game. Once during a round, however, E.T. can encounter a wilted flower hidden in the bottom of a well. If E.T. is revives the flower, Elliott is given the ability to merge with E.T. one extra time."
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Fun fact Bethesda bought all the copies of this game from the landfill and renamed it *_Fallout 76_*
Rekt
Off xd
Wow so funny
@@djquizzle1419 funny was BUt not nearly as funny as the game xdd
This comment made my day 🤣🤣
best game 10/10 would play every day for the rest of my life
Aztrosist you
Same
racastic
Are you from Nederlands?
I give it 96/10
The name of this game should had been " Fall into a hole alot"
Well he kept walking right over the hole
YOU COULD'VE CALLED THIS GAME "ET VS HOLE" AND NO ONE WOULD'VE ARGUED WITH YOU
I'm sorry I'm so late but this comment is awesome 🤣
With E.T.
Soooo he lands the spaceship and gets off, the ship leaves him and you spend the whole game calling another ship? Sounds like E.T. should stop drinking that beer.
That is pretty much the plot of the film though
"I'm doing something wrong this game cant be this stupid" lol
Considering the guy who made this had a strict time of 5 weeks to make it, it's decent for the time given.
But like what is even supposed to be happening?
Yes for its time it was decent for 5 weeks
But now you can make a way better game in a couple of days
And I believe this game was OK'd by Spielberg himself, after he play-tested it. And he'd been playing video games for quite some time already, so it wasn't an uninformed opinion or anything like that. The playability issues are kind of obvious, but compared to the flood of sub-par video games of that era, it wasn't really *that* bad. In fact, IIRC, this game sold like hotcakes, and many people were happily playing it for like 6 months until it started to get fashionable to call it the worst game ever. The difference is, the worst stinkers really didn't sell in the millions, so they are largely forgotten.
Decent, not good
@@FinnGambleGive some examples?
what the hell did I just watch....
The worst game ever created
***** lol
+FunkyFunTime Best game 10/10 😂😂😂😂😂
+Matt Thompson Lol, it really is disgraceful.
+Şüheda Kayabaşı wow sereus
what the hell they were smoking when they made this game
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Stress. They only had 5 weeks and it was 1 person doing all the work
Goofballs
Maradona made this game
Some type of dust
I hope GTA VI will have those graphics
Gta 6? You wish.
Maybe as DLC content.
Playable in arcade shop in GTA 6 soon ?! Maybe 🤣🤣
I come from the future it won't
@@ytanonymity3585 ok karen
I was the best player at this game in my neighborhood and everybody hated me. No one ever wanted to play because they could never stay out of the pit or kept getting captured. Garbage game but I died laughing watching others play this.
I need the VR version of this game.
This game is the truest demonstration of when a great enterprise is desperately trying to survive
11/10 IGN
true
Paid review
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what are u talking about? what kind 11? that's 15 xdd
Don't forget the to much water
"High Score" on Netflix brought me here and I needed to see how bad this game was. Based on this video, I can see why this is the worst video game ever. But the commentary from the guy on this video was so funny and cute HAHA!
:))))))))(
im coming from netflix too lmao
5 week for this game
@Lil Van Damme yes and '' bienvenue chez les ch'tis '' in the Nintendo ds
It only had 5 weeks to be made
I played this as a kid. It was so frustrating! I thought I just sucked at the game.
Little did you know that it was just the game that sucked
I swear if it’s only me it’s cool but I died when e.t start flying with his neck 😂😂😂
Its not just you
That was fantastic. Every time you fell into the pit i laughed my ass off.
Me too 😂
Snippet from the manual:
Sometimes E.T. will fall back into a well after he has levitated up to the planet surface. To prevent this, move E.T. right or left immediately after the scene changes from the well interior to the planet surface. E.T. will move from the well onto solid ground, in the same direction you move your Joystick.
Still better than Fortnite.
Your Nightmare/エッジハッカー wasn’t this made my epic games?
A million dollar sentence.
@@queensgtmslim Oh look it's a triggered 11 year old child who can't respect opinions, can't spell correctly, and has a cancerous Ali-A profile picture thinking it's funny. Stop being in denial that Fortnite sucks. It does and you have to accept it.
6969 subs with no videos I agree fortnite sucks,but no need to send death threats.
Azzur ture
I remember I couldn't play this game for more than 5 minutes. The cartridge got dusty and forgotten. Haha...
OMFG I LOVE THIS VIDEO!!! Dude had me rolling playing this game. I needed this tonight so thank you. Thanks for being patient and sticking to playing the game. I was strangely amused by the difficulty of figuring it out.
6:00 freddy and et crossover confirmed?
Yoooo I remember this game... And it's hilarious watching it... I just remember being so confused
The commentary is hilarious
You fall down a pit whenever:
1. Stepping on a darkened section of floor
2. Stepping vaguely near a darkened section of floor
3. Climbing out of a pit and spawning on top of a darkened section of floor
4. A baby cries somewhere on planet Earth
Imagine having 1000 hours on this game 💀
If they ever bring this to steam some sick bastard is going to leave a review with 1000 hours guarenteed 🤣
@@camelrock lmfaooo
I remember spending hours trying to figure this game out as an 8 year old child that loved the movie. Between the timer, the pits, and being chased around I never did understand or even get close to what the plot of the game was. Pong and the battle tanks were always fun though.
Truly the worst game ever designed. Admittedly the poor developer was only given 15 days to complete the process (so I've heard) but DAMN!!!! Stand up and be recognised Dude, the "Worst Game Ever" crown is yours to keep!
No - he had nearly two months, actually.
Nope, five weeks
MinecraftVoidMan Were you there? I was.
it was five weeks
cookinginrussia were u there?!
Thanks for sharing this clip! I've heard this game was THE video game dumpster fire of all time. Looks like the critical review is spot on. This game makes you want to go back to work, crack open a book, visit the MVA, perhaps schedule a root canal if you need one or not.
Better than The Last of Us Part 2
I came here to write exactly the same thing.
Flower Power nice bait
@@flowerpower2906
low IQ response
I found the manual online, I think people hated the game because they didn't read the instructions and didn't know what to do, it's very well written and there are quite a few things to do.
***** Mmm I researched a bit more and I think there was a bug getting out of the holes but they knew about it because they say so in the instruction booklet. Maybe that was the problem.
As the creator said, taking in account the time to develop it, it's a pretty decent game.
***** Did you have atari games before that one? (interesting conversation)
***** This one? I did, but it definitely looks like the poster didn't read the manual, after reading the manual everything makes sense, to be an atari game I think it's average. But you know more because I only played Pitfall for 5 minutes, that's all my Atari experience.
***** Haha what does that have to do with anything we are talking about? (Appart that I saw an article about it and that's actually how I got here.)
***** PineKushDude Pointless discussion people. Go on with your lives ;)
It had a rushed release to get it out on the market for the upcoming Christmas , they were told they had five and a half weeks to fully complete the game. Once it hit the market and did horrible and caused the Gaming crash of 1983 being a part of gaming history this cartridge was dump it off at a dump in New Mexico where they salvage them. And by the way do you need 3 pieces of the telephone to finish the game then you need to go to the sight of your ship and successfully make it under 9 seconds and the ship will take you back home and you beat the game you can only hold 9 of those little square blocks that actually are supposed to be Reeses pieces. I was lucky enough to get myself an original working copy of the cartridge in mint condition this Christmas however it was not from the dump site, if it was it could be up worth up to $30,000.
Actually it did Cause the crash *****
High Brass *4 weeks.
suddenly the worst game has more value...
The walking sounds like the coconut shells from Monty Python 😂😂😂
Lol man spot on
Legendary game. Game of the year. Want a classic!!
There are dozens of Atari 2600 games that are much worse than E.T. It's actually not as hard and frustrating as people make it out to be. With some patience and practice, I could call my ship to rescue me every time I played, and I was 13 years old at the time. When you rise out the pit, you have guide E.T. away from the dark area so you don't keep falling in.
I just watched the "Atari Game Over" movie" - it explains everything -, and wanted to see what the game was like. Thanks for giving us an unbiased look at the actual game.
Looks like the super annoying holes were needed to find stuff, but even so it's pretty one dimensional dull.
Here because I thought 'The Simpsons Treehouse of Terror' ep was joking when they showed the gameplay and... wow, it's all real.
Imagine you got an Atari for Christmas and this was the only game you got with it.
My dad played this game when he was 11. He was born a year after the Magnavox oddessy came out. He also played the original mario. But they weren't his. He was too poor to get a console but his friends had them. I told my dad about how E.T killed the video game industry in 83' and how Nintendo literally pulled it from the grave in 1985.He said he never knew that.
Atari didn’t kill the industry. It’s not how economics work. That’s like saying Powell-Peralta killed skateboarding in the late 80’s and PlanB revived it.
The home game console market was a complete revolution in the early 80’s. Suddenly a thing that never existed before in human history was now in every home. The companies who were there early were making a fortune. Other companies wanted to join the fun.
The result was a market heavily saturated with choice, but also with a mixture of high-quality and low-quality content.
This in turn led to a waning interest in consoles which led to the collapse. In effect, gaming was a fad and everyone wanted in - for a while.
Like all fads, at some stage they die, only to later reappear. Gaming is no different.
After all these years I gotta say the game holds up pretty well
Dont you mean 'holes' up pretty well?
@@CoolCoder-zd7iz lol
My dad was the only person I knew that could bet this game. Everytime. I was poor so I had this console growing up it was my moms. My dad loved ET. I am good at his game because he helped me. Its actually really fun when you figure it out
E.T. vs some kidnapping perverts
I played this “game” as a kid then forgot it was the E.T. game that bombed so bad. Only things I remember was that walking shuffle sound, the bass womp when he extends his head, and spending aimless bored hours trying to figure out how to advance in the game, let alone beat it.
I actually loved this game as a kid. Once you figure out the trick to get out of the holes, it's a lot more fun.
No it isn’t and this game sucks
I miss this Game, one of the bests
Now I can see why this game was buried.
E.T forgets where he left his spaceship, so he steals all the weed in the world, gets really, high, steals a time machine, accidentally causes ww2 and this is how the world of frozen was created.
When I played this game years later I thought I had gotten a bad copy, like there was a glitch or something. I guess turns out that it was supposed to be meandering and pointless.
After the commentary of the developer I actually like the game. I think it's quite genius. It's a shame it has such bad reputation even though most people didn't play itm
I had this when I was 5. I had no idea what to do
Wow this game can fall to the hole and fly up again, 10/10 - IGN
6:00 : One, two, Freddy's coming for you...
My fav game on earth no game can pass the fun the graphics the sound effects the design everything is perfect so sad my copy has been missing after getting the milk
While I agree that continuously falling into the pits is frustrating as hell, if you read the instruction manual and practise a bit, it becomes a lot easier. I had this when I was a kid in the 80s and once I got the hang of it, it wasn't as bad as it might seem for the time. The falling down the pit issue is one of pixel perfect collision detection. If any part of E.T is touching a pit when he stops levitating, he will fall back into it.
I was just saying the same to my sister. There was an instruction manual. This game was so much fun. I loved it.
Boy this really brings back memories. Memories of going around in circles and falling in a hole. I was like 6 when I got this game. Thought it was stupid, but tried it many times trying to figure it out. Finally gave up and suck with pacman and missile command.
Oh man this video is great! I wanted to show my 11 year old son this game and we watched this video. We were laughing so hard. Thank you! I have the old Atari and 3 of the ET games. It's been a couple of decades at least since last I've played it.
E.T: Battle Royale
Omg. This video reminds me of being SOOOO frustrated as a kid trying to play this game & not know wth was going on. Thanks for the trip down memory lane.
Me sentí mal por perder tanto tiempo mirando este vídeo del juego... hasta que vi no soy el único.
I felt bad for having wasted my time watching this game's video... til I saw I wasn't the only one.
I heard that the guy who made this basically coded it for four days, and then was forced to push it out on just four days worth of work. Mayhaps he could have had more quality with more time, but we won't ever know that.
Better than COD.
Opinion disrespected. CoD is leagues better than this. (Not a fanboy)
Especially CoD WW2.
Corn of duty is better
Opinions. 😌👌🏻
Do u mean BO4??
"I am not exactly sure what is going on." Seven-year-old me after playing this game for 20 minutes.
"Oooooh okay, for some bisk? reason the child appeared and *merged* with me... or something like that?"
🤣
The developer was pressured by the the CEO to make the game in 5 weeks so it could be sold by Christmas. I’d say it’s pretty damn good considering the average game at the time took 5 MONTHS to make. If not more.
watching this video mate, i can fell your pain
:(
I remember playing this game as a kid and having no idea what the hell I was doing. I got bored after about 5-10 minutes and started playing something else lol
people think this game sucks cuz the pits are hard to get out of but the trick is where-ever you exit the pit is where it will spawn you when it goes to the other map.. so OBVIOUSLY YOU HAVE TO FLOAT OUT OF THE PIT AT THE SIDES OF IT TO GET OUT EASILY.
logic, bros. best game ever.
only plebs float out the middle and expect to get out.
I agree. The opening music is good to hear too, represents emotion with the film.
Imagine if they found those cartridges thousands of years later & it let to a whole thing we never could have expected or wanted
"Videogames were so much better back then"
This game saved my life its wayyy better than RDR2 RDR1 GTA5 resident Evil4. This ET game is far better than these fake titles lol. I play hours and hours on end pure enjoyment every minute of it.
Is it a bad game? Yes. Worst game of all time? Nah... I could name worse video games.
Sonic 06 is the closest to this
kids and skylanders news team I was gonna say Spyro Enter the Dragonfly.
Giordan Diodato infinite warfare for example
***** have you played Karate on the 2600?
***** I didn't...
I just said it's nowhere near the worst game ever.
The fact the games were in a landfill gives you a hint as to what to do with the game
hahahahaha this is genius! the way he moves his neck
There is a trick to get out of the pit, u have to rock the stick horizontally when u get out, while still holding the button
I never stopped playing this awesome game
I think you're brilliant. The fact you sound like Goldmember makes the commentary even better!
Atari got off lightly releasing a game this bad, jail time would have been more appropriate
E.T's face and the text "E. T." on that title screen is terrifying. If I played this as a child, I would've gotten nightmares. Good thing I didn't.
Kind of reminds me of The Grinch
I had this game when it came out I was probably about 12 I could never work it out. I remember the house in the film but don’t remember seeing 2 colosseums like this game has! I can just see the arguments now between the Atari managers and the programmers - programmer “I need more time to do something decent” managers - “just get it done we need something quick and the suckers will buy it because it has ET in it who cares if it’s rubbish”
I think those dark green squares are supposed to give you extra lives.
this game is much better than Last of Us 2, No PC, No Blood, No Violence
I've had trouble getting away from the pits too. Figured it was best to stop moving immediately after the screen changes, and then either work my way down or over instead of allowing myself to fall back in just because of his head dropping.
'Everybody falls the first time.'
Cypher, The Matrix.
I played that as a kid. And that's all I remember about it as well - falling down a hole and not knowing what I should or shouldn't be doing to win it.
BBC news brought me here..
+0nly1truth Same here ...
+0nly1truth And me...
+0nly1truth my teacher brought me here for a essay
+0nly1truth me, too, its right now running on German TV :)
+Nicolette Padilla Its (an essay) not (a essay) try to correct your grammatical mistake.
Man you are epic hero spending so much time for this
1:00 "oh, i can do this." LMFAO!!!!
I was quite good at this game as a 2- or 3-year-old. The older kids would watch me play and become hypnotized. It was distracting and gratifying. I also figured out an exploit in Qbert that allowed me to kill the snake over and over until I reached whatever score I wanted.
I wonder if atari will come back like apple did?
The only gaming company that came back like Apple did is Nintendo. In fact, Nintendo did it repeatedly. Atari will never be able to pull off such a feat since they never had the same impact that companies like Nintendo and Apple had.
No they won't because of this game.
And to think the XBOX 360 generation thought they got screwed over with Terminator Salvation, that looks like a masterpiece compared to this
Atari's boss only worked on it for 5 weeks that's why it's awful
Super ahmed I meant he told his employees to work on the game for 5 weeks so it's his fault!
WHat's your Nintendo ID I wanna add you!
Are you sure it wasn't five hours?
@@blackmichael75 and are you sure that you are wrong?
It wasnt Atari's CEO. It was one game developer from Atari.
"Too much excellent"
9999999999999999/10
- IGN
E.T looks so cute here
This is actually one of my favourite 2600 games. If AVGN didn't exist I bet people would love this. Same for many other games. I do like AVGN though.