high voltage Posted March 22, 2019 Share Posted March 22, 2019 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ColecoJoe Posted March 22, 2019 Share Posted March 22, 2019 All you needed was the manual to play the game. Most people didn't bother with it 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Random Terrain Posted March 22, 2019 Share Posted March 22, 2019 People have this now and they still can't play. To What Degree Do You Love E.T.?E.T. Manual and Tips SheetE.T. MapE.T. Tips and RemindersE.T. Appreciation PageE.T. Cake 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NE146 Posted March 22, 2019 Share Posted March 22, 2019 I did have that book.. not sure if I still do. However all I needed to play the game was the manual (and knowing to choose game variation THREE) 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
high voltage Posted March 22, 2019 Author Share Posted March 22, 2019 I just purchased it from US ebay, finally, after all these years even I can play ET Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fabman99 Posted March 22, 2019 Share Posted March 22, 2019 If you need one of these PM me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swami Posted March 22, 2019 Share Posted March 22, 2019 I just purchased it from US ebay, finally, after all these years even I can play ET Theres also a hack around here that fixed the brokenness Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OldSchoolRetroGamer Posted March 23, 2019 Share Posted March 23, 2019 Managed just fine, E.T. AND Raider of the Lost Ark, read the manual, played them, finished them, loved them. 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flojomojo Posted March 23, 2019 Share Posted March 23, 2019 I agree that ET and fellow "deep" game Raiders are perfectly playable if you read the manual, like others have said. They're just not super FUN and they're not as sticky because they're not immediately approachable or understandable. You can tell the objective of Space Invaders in 5 seconds. Something like these games -- or something like Adventure, Haunted House, Superman, Riddle of the Sphinx don't hold up as "a minute to learn, a lifetime to master" like arcade style games. See also: The Master Strategy games on Odyssey 2 (books and game pieces to deal with) Space Giraffe (folks REALLY didn't get this, because it wasn't Tempest) I, Robot Stargate Donkey Kong 3 Many Intellivision games Not BAD games, just inpenetrable to many people at first glance, which in a crowded field, can be all you get. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hizzy Posted March 23, 2019 Share Posted March 23, 2019 If I can figure it out, I would like to make a hack of ET, expanding the game like Haunted Adventure. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matt2d2 Posted March 26, 2019 Share Posted March 26, 2019 It's incredible that it was completed in a few short weeks by Howard Scott Warshaw alone. I remember caring enough about Raiders to actually beat it, but E.T., not some much. IMO though, the E.T. game followed it's movie better than the Raiders game. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zzip Posted March 27, 2019 Share Posted March 27, 2019 Finished ET many times. It's just Haunted House with better graphics.. find three pieces of an object and escape while avoiding the 'spooks' 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Thag Posted March 28, 2019 Share Posted March 28, 2019 Managed just fine, E.T. AND Raider of the Lost Ark, read the manual, played them, finished them, loved them. Yeah, same. Most of the kids I know who were dedicated games did just fine with both games. I beat both of them many times as a kid, and I read both manuals. The people who struggled were more of the occasional players who just wanted something simple like Pac Man or Galaxian. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Pez Posted March 29, 2019 Share Posted March 29, 2019 It's incredible that it was completed in a few short weeks by Howard Scott Warshaw alone. I remember caring enough about Raiders to actually beat it, but E.T., not some much. IMO though, the E.T. game followed it's movie better than the Raiders game. Its kinda sad though that he lost his job for something that wasn't really wasn't his fault. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crsdawg Posted March 29, 2019 Share Posted March 29, 2019 At the ripe old age of 11 I was speed running E.T. before there was a name for that sort of play style. No special books, no online run through...I just used my ability to read words (in the manual) and my brain to invent different strategies to overcome the games difficulties and short falls. It became one of my favorites for a time as I found that trying to get through it as fast as possible was a fun challenge. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raiu Posted March 29, 2019 Share Posted March 29, 2019 I'm sure I've said this before on these forums, but at the time of its release, I really enjoyed E.T., and didn't learn that it was supposed to be a bad game until much, much later. Even as a kid, I loved most of the Atari "Adventure Territory" games (Superman, Haunted House, Adventure, Raiders), and E.T. was no exception*. I read the manual, which explains exactly how to get out of the wells, so I never had the problems with them that everyone else seems to have. * The exceptions were the Swordquest games. I think they're all worse than E.T., and Fireworld is the worst of them all. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Syzygy1 Posted March 30, 2019 Share Posted March 30, 2019 I agree that ET and fellow "deep" game Raiders are perfectly playable if you read the manual, like others have said. They're just not super FUN and they're not as sticky because they're not immediately approachable or understandable. You can tell the objective of Space Invaders in 5 seconds. Something like these games -- or something like Adventure, Haunted House, Superman, Riddle of the Sphinx don't hold up as "a minute to learn, a lifetime to master" like arcade style games. See also: The Master Strategy games on Odyssey 2 (books and game pieces to deal with) Space Giraffe (folks REALLY didn't get this, because it wasn't Tempest) I, Robot Stargate Donkey Kong 3 Many Intellivision games Not BAD games, just inpenetrable to many people at first glance, which in a crowded field, can be all you get. Hey, I figured out Superman on my own (OK, I think I lied, I needed the manual to help me the first few rounds or so. Now I'm like, "This is Superman, this is Lex Luthor, this is Otis, this is Lois, this is Clark... this is Cyb- oh wait this was 2 years before he was introduced...") I never bothered to play E.T. at first cause I didn't like the movie as much as other people did (My mom didn't like it either, she never thought E.T. was "cute" and she was stuck in the front when she went to see it) but nowadays I seem to have it figured it out without the help of that book (or even the manual.) The movie's a good experience of 80s culture from that period with the addition of an alien that reminds me of Maz Kanata and the chocolate lady from SpongeBob, even Strawberry Shortcake dolls appear owned by a young Drew Barrymore, but there's no Cyborg. Oh, and with my vivid imagination, I always picture E.T. taking the Underground Railroad when it falls into the pits lmao Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Syzygy1 Posted March 30, 2019 Share Posted March 30, 2019 * The exceptions were the Swordquest games. I think they're all worse than E.T., and Fireworld is the worst of them all. Hey! How can you NOT like the George Perez illustrated comics? None of the characters are drawn similar to Cyborg (or even Starfire and Raven) but for a Titan fan like me, it's AMAZING! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Random Terrain Posted March 30, 2019 Share Posted March 30, 2019 Hey! How can you NOT like the George Perez illustrated comics? None of the characters are drawn similar to Cyborg (or even Starfire and Raven) but for a Titan fan like me, it's AMAZING! The variation of Asperger's that I have never forced me to like comic books. It pushed me in other directions. To me, comic books always seemed to be similar to professional wrestling. Too much drama, bluster, and bulging muscles. Turn it into a movie or a TV show and I might watch it, but I'm not wasting eye pain reading it. I'd rather spend my eye pain reading non-fiction. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raiu Posted March 31, 2019 Share Posted March 31, 2019 Hey! How can you NOT like the George Perez illustrated comics? None of the characters are drawn similar to Cyborg (or even Starfire and Raven) but for a Titan fan like me, it's AMAZING! The comics were fine (and I wish they'd finished and released the fourth comic, even if they didn't finish the game), but the games themselves were awful. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Syzygy1 Posted March 31, 2019 Share Posted March 31, 2019 The variation of Asperger's that I have never forced me to like comic books. It pushed me in other directions. To me, comic books always seemed to be similar to professional wrestling. Too much drama, bluster, and bulging muscles. Turn it into a movie or a TV show and I might watch it, but I'm not wasting eye pain reading it. I'd rather spend my eye pain reading non-fiction. And exposed pecs. Or if you're Starfire, boobs. Besides, comic books aren't staged like professional wrestling. All the fight scenes you saw in comic books were real... except when they made movies and TV shows out of it. Yes, those were staged. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Syzygy1 Posted March 31, 2019 Share Posted March 31, 2019 The comics were fine (and I wish they'd finished and released the fourth comic, even if they didn't finish the game), but the games themselves were awful. All the video games in that period of time were awful. But we still played them because it was the only things we had! We weren't graphically advanced yet! Try showing GTA V: San Andreas to someone in 1982. They'd spontaneously combust and upon coming back to life, yell "BOOYAH!" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raiu Posted March 31, 2019 Share Posted March 31, 2019 (edited) All the video games in that period of time were awful. But we still played them because it was the only things we had! We weren't graphically advanced yet! Try showing GTA V: San Andreas to someone in 1982. They'd spontaneously combust and upon coming back to life, yell "BOOYAH!" .... no, all games of the era weren't all equally awful, and it has nothing to do with graphics. Adventure, Haunted House, Raider of the Lost Ark, even E.T. were better adventure games than Fireworld, which was buggy (several challenges forced you to lose a life immediately, sometimes you'd start a challenge and immediately get kicked out as if you'd lost, enemy movement was so choppy that some challenges were barely playable, etc) and unfinished (the contest clues, literally the entire reason for the game to exist, were never actually put into the game, only placeholders 00 through 09). Edited March 31, 2019 by Raiu Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Syzygy1 Posted April 1, 2019 Share Posted April 1, 2019 .... no, all games of the era weren't all equally awful, and it has nothing to do with graphics. Adventure, Haunted House, Raider of the Lost Ark, even E.T. were better adventure games than Fireworld, which was buggy (several challenges forced you to lose a life immediately, sometimes you'd start a challenge and immediately get kicked out as if you'd lost, enemy movement was so choppy that some challenges were barely playable, etc) and unfinished (the contest clues, literally the entire reason for the game to exist, were never actually put into the game, only placeholders 00 through 09). Placeholders? Damn it if they got George Perez to illustrate the Swordquest comics, then WHY WASN'T THERE A CYBORG GAME FOR THE ATARI 2600?! Wasn't The New Teen Titans the most popular comic book of the 80s? Why did we just get Superman and not Cyborg? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Random Terrain Posted April 1, 2019 Share Posted April 1, 2019 Wasn't The New Teen Titans the most popular comic book of the 80s? Why did we just get Superman and not Cyborg? I never heard of Teen Titans or Cyborg. I also didn't know that the X-Men existed until the movies came out. I knew about the main ones like Superman, Spider-Man, Batman, and Wonder Woman. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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