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Re: No, I played it as a kid. It was godawful, and unplayable. by Mysterio 04/30/2014, 6:54am PDT Despite what Crappier Mysterio up there says, this isn't the Matrix sequels where loads of ambiguous detail give apologists endless ground for defense. It's a trivially simple action-puzzle minigame, by today's standards. There is almost nothing in it. If you can't figure out the rules for the weird symbol system, then it's unplayable. But you can, because you have a brain, and you have half an hour. If you can't work out how to get in and out of pits efficiently, despite that they are everywhere and have a couple of bugs that sometimes make it hard to avoid them or hard to get out of them, then it'll be annoying and frustrating. But it's not very hard to figure that out. And whether you do or not, the rest of the game is just a little treasure hunt. You run after the things you're supposed to get while enemies chase you and block you. You get the things and then you win, or you run out of life and you die. For the 2600, this is ordinary. To say it's bad because it has the aforementioned bugs and because its central system is presented in a weirdly obscure way (unless you read the manual) is reasonable. For a kid, giving up early is understandable. But there is really nothing to see here except a tiny, fairly ordinary action-puzzle challenge with a few ugly problems that can be easy to work around (though some people wouldn't want to and there's no particular reason why they should). It's not great, but if it's unplayable garbage then nearly everything on the 2600 must be pretty bad as well. Which maybe it is.

The worst video game ever made has been found! by Commander Tansin A. Darcos 04/26/2014, 4:05pm PDT     And? Why did you post that exactly? NT by Eurotrash 04/27/2014, 11:11am PDT         Don't u think item about finding buried game carts belongs in video game forum? NT by Commander Tansin A. Darcos 04/27/2014, 3:22pm PDT             I do. NT by Can I have those carts? 04/27/2014, 8:48pm PDT             Someone buried some unsold shitty game inventory. Then someone dug them up. by Eurotrash 04/27/2014, 10:50pm PDT                 E.T. would get a 7/10 score these days from vidya game journalists NT by the lowest score POSSIBLE 04/28/2014, 9:34pm PDT     Re: The worst video game ever made has been found! by Jack Tramiel 04/28/2014, 8:26am PDT         Re: The worst video game ever made has been found! by Commander Tansin A. Darcos 04/29/2014, 7:48pm PDT         Think about it for a moment by Commander Tansin A. Darcos 04/29/2014, 8:01pm PDT             They were closing an entire warehouse and writing off the contents by E. L. Koba 04/29/2014, 9:34pm PDT                 Still, you think trucking the warehouse contents is cheaper than dumpsters? NT by Commander Tansin A. Darcos 04/29/2014, 11:21pm PDT                     Yes. The dumpster isn't the big cost, it's the municipal or private waste remova NT by penalties/payment. 04/30/2014, 7:37am PDT                     Shipping containers are stupid. Why not just send everything by post by Entropy Stew 04/30/2014, 10:36am PDT             Re: Think about it for a moment by Jack Tramiel 04/30/2014, 7:45am PDT     Re: The worst video game ever made has been found! by Mysterio 04/29/2014, 1:55am PDT         No, it's not. NT by Mischief Maker 04/29/2014, 6:53am PDT         You're needed in the thread about Matrix sequels apologists. NT by Because you're a moron. 04/29/2014, 9:17am PDT             Oh yeah, that's really gonna make someone interested by Commander Tansin A. Darcos 04/29/2014, 8:10pm PDT                 *ring ring* Asperger's calling! NT by Hello? (It's for you.) 05/01/2014, 5:01pm PDT                 Oh yeah, that's really gonna make someone interested, Paul by blackwater 05/04/2014, 10:59pm PDT                     Another stupid imbecile like Blackwaiter shows his incompetence by Commander Tansin A. Darcos 05/10/2014, 11:46am PDT                         "Blackwaiter" is racist, right? NT by The Happiness Engine 05/15/2014, 4:28pm PDT         No, I played it as a kid. It was godawful, and unplayable. NT by E. L. Koba 04/29/2014, 9:30pm PDT             Re: No, I played it as a kid. It was godawful, and unplayable. by Mysterio 04/30/2014, 6:54am PDT                 Re: No, I played it as a kid. It was godawful, and unplayable. by Ice Cream Jonsey 04/30/2014, 7:13am PDT                 Wow, the "you will only think ET is bad if you're stupid" defense. NT by Here we are. We made it. 04/30/2014, 8:00am PDT                     "we" by Mysterio 04/30/2014, 11:20am PDT                         The royal we was meant to be all of society. Human evolution up to this point. NT by Our apex moment. 05/01/2014, 11:33am PDT                         Re: "we" NT by Mysterio 05/02/2014, 11:18am PDT                         Re: "we" by Mysterio 05/02/2014, 11:18am PDT                             Let's change that. Together. NT by A Message From Caltrops Cares 05/02/2014, 11:26am PDT             It was only as bad a lot of other Atari games by Fullofkittens 04/30/2014, 8:34am PDT                 This is the truth. I played a fair amount of ET because my other options by were Atari games. - Last 05/01/2014, 5:07pm PDT     E.T Phones It In by Elliott 05/02/2014, 12:10am PDT         Don't any of you read Arstechnica? :( by laudablepuss 05/02/2014, 9:49am PDT             Re: Don't any of you read Arstechnica? :( by Ice Cream Jonsey 05/02/2014, 11:05am PDT                 Raiders of the Lost Ark was a fine 2600 game by laudablepuss 05/07/2014, 10:30am PDT                     But if you wanted to feel more like Indy, Pitfall 2 was your game. NT by P. Harry 05/07/2014, 2:36pm PDT