"E.T." arcade prototype?????????

[videogame]

I heard that atari made a prototype arcade version of "E.T." Has anybody seen this game or found any rom images of it?

[Curt Vendel]

I have some mention of a coin-op project of ET, I will speak with some friends from the former Atari Games Corp and see if it got past the conceptualization stage and if it actually made it to a prototype for testing.

 

 

 

Curt

[Curt Vendel]

Okay, that didn't take very long at all, my former Atari Games contact Mike Albaugh tells me:

 

"E.T." was one of three games proposed for the hardware

that was used for "Return of the Jedi". The third was Ed Logg's

version of Road Runner. Only Jedi was produced, but as I recall

E.T. got to the prototype, maybe focus-group stage. The programmer

was Robin Ziegler. The game-play was simply to guide E.T. through

a number of scenes, avoiding the "scientists" and picking up parts

of the "phone" to phone-home. Gary Stempler would have been the

engineer, as he was the designer of this hardware. I do not recall

who the animator or composer were.

 

Hope this helps....

 

Curt