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E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (Atari 2600) - Game Walkthrough

submitted by blankfist

1 decade 6 years 2 months ago

This is a complete walkthrough of the 1982 release of E.T. for the Atari 2600. I used to play this game religiously for hours when I was a wee lad. I don't understand why it was despised as it was, because to me the game was a lot of fun. I guess my taste as a child was a bit lackluster.

From Y/T: "Here's what the star of Universals hit movie looks like after making the change from the silver screen to the video screen
How To Beat Home Video Games - Vol. 2 The Hot New Games (Vestron, 1982)"

Wiki:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E.T._the_Extra-Terrestrial_%28Atari_2600%29

Noted as one of the worst games of all times:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_video_games_considered_the_worst_ever

Noted to be one of the major causes of the Video Game Crash of 1983:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_American_video_game_crash_of_1983

It is rumored that Atari had dumped many copies of E.T. in the desert:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari_video_game_burial

7 Comments

dystopianfuturetoday

Finally! I've been trying to beat this game for over 2 decades.

This is one of those "you had to be there" things. It must seem laughable to anyone who plays consoles or PC games today, but those little 8 bit worlds seemed so expansive. Atari Adventure was probably only eight rooms or something, and those dragons were made of a dozen pixels but they were scary beasts with shimmering scales to me.

*nostalgia

Nice complete post, by the way, with the cartridges in the desert and such.

I think the holes that you kept falling into every 10 pixels you walked was enough to earn it a place as one of the worst video games ever.

E.T yeah, I remember this was a *terrible game!

Invocations (terrible) cannot be called by Zonbie because Zonbie is not privileged - sorry.

I actually beat this game when I was a kid and still didn't have a clue as to wtf I was doing.

ant

My older church friend beat this game and showed me how back in the 80s.

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