Not really. It was one of the first games i remember clearing.

It was disgusting. I was so happy to get it. I even thought it was cool to have an ET game.. but we always picked the other games. It only went in the slot when someone else had not seen it.

Yes it was horrible... I know, I played it back in the day.

Still better than DmC...

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I just tried watching a gameplay video of it on YouTube.

I didn't finish it.

Dear big companies that try to rip people off or try to pull the cloth over their eyes. Look at e.t. and pacman you can only do it so many times before the consumer turn on you. I'm not saying we'll have another crash because there are more consoles people can go to.

I would honestly like to try it.

No it wasn't! I can easily name two dozen games on the 2600 that were far worse. Yes the constant falling into pits was annoying, but it was actually playable, and I have finished it. It also had decent graphics for a 2600 title.

It was bad, but not the worst. At least it had a sense of some playability and, if you were lucky enough to know what to do and how to do it, then you might be able to actually beat it.

To me, there have been worse games that have come out since then, like Superman 64 (which was just a broken mess).

YES it is that bad

The biggest issue I remember with it was the collision detection. For instance you would fall into a hole if your head touched the hole, even if your feet were nowhere near it.

No, it wasn't that bad. The main problem was that you actually had to read the manual in the days when nobody read the manual. <a href=" http://www.neocomputer.org/... guy fixed all the key problems with it</a>, and covers the whole story.

If this game sucks so much why make a big deal about it

It has abstract game design which is mostly misunderstood especially these days. Having played it a fair bit I'd conclude it's far from rubbish. A lot of negative comes from bandwagon hate and those that wont have played it long enough to know what they truly might think. Gamers aren't exactly intelligent anyway lets be fair with the majority often concluding ignorantly their judgement

It's always very difficult to like or understand something so odd in concept and in ET this is shown quite evidently

Well my friend got ET for christmas and ask me to come over to play it, and we hated it! He also got a bunch of other 2600 games that day, we played those and hated those games also !!!! The ATARI 2600 to me was done by 1980! But idiots from WARNER did not listen to NOLAN BUSHNELL (founder af ATARI) in 1978 when he said "time to build a new consule and the 2600 is old news " WARNER said "no way" so he quit!!! That is why ET, PAC MAN port and most of the games on ATARI 2600 were freakin awful ! The real good video games were in the ARCADE at that time ! That is where i went every week ! So happy i had a paper route back then, to support my 10 dollar a week "ARCADE ADDICTION HABIT!!"

This game was bad I played it once as a kid and the damn game sucked.

If you love falling in holes over and over again then I guess its a great game.

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Seriously the game is unplayable.