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General Category => National/Breaking News => Topic started by: Charlespg on April 26, 2014, 09:36:34 pm

Title: Diggers find Atari's E.T. games in landfill
Post by: Charlespg on April 26, 2014, 09:36:34 pm
http://news.yahoo.com/diggers-ataris-e-t-games-landfill-193256509.html;_ylt=A0LEV11tJFxT.wEA0gtXNyoA;_ylu=X3oDMTB0ZnIxdG9hBHNlYwNzYwRjb2xvA2JmMQR2dGlkA1NNRTQyNF8x


lol whish I had kept my arari 2600
Title: Re: Diggers find Atari's E.T. games in landfill
Post by: Carling on April 26, 2014, 09:43:27 pm
Quote from: Charlespg on April 26, 2014, 09:36:34 pm
http://news.yahoo.com/diggers-ataris-e-t-games-landfill-193256509.html;_ylt=A0LEV11tJFxT.wEA0gtXNyoA;_ylu=X3oDMTB0ZnIxdG9hBHNlYwNzYwRjb2xvA2JmMQR2dGlkA1NNRTQyNF8x


lol whish I had kept my arari 2600

I had that ET game, but it was no Pitfall, and certainly no Decathlon! 
Title: Re: Diggers find Atari's E.T. games in landfill
Post by: ABX on April 26, 2014, 10:17:20 pm
I think I had it. I was too young to remember for sure but I had a lot of games and the screenshots I've seen of the game look very familiar.
Title: Re: Diggers find Atari's E.T. games in landfill
Post by: Carling on April 26, 2014, 10:19:08 pm
Quote from: AbaraXas on April 26, 2014, 10:17:20 pm
I think I had it. I was too young to remember for sure but I had a lot of games and the screenshots I've seen of the game look very familiar.

It was a pretty dumb game.  Had it not been "ET," I would have never have purchased it.
Title: Re: Diggers find Atari's E.T. games in landfill
Post by: EC on April 26, 2014, 10:27:55 pm
Quote from: Carling on April 26, 2014, 09:43:27 pm
I had that ET game, but it was no Pitfall, and certainly no Decathlon!

Yay!!! Pitfall. I still have my Megadrive, it still works and the pitfall cartridge still works. Time to head up to the loft again ....
Title: Re: Diggers find Atari's E.T. games in landfill
Post by: NavyCanDo on April 27, 2014, 02:22:27 am
I had the Intellivision video game system introduced by Mattel Toys in 1980 that competed with the Atari 2600.  It had far better graphics than Atari.
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0KTjpaG3cg

 
Title: Re: Diggers find Atari's E.T. games in landfill
Post by: Luis Gonzalez on April 27, 2014, 04:20:13 am
Quote from: Charlespg on April 26, 2014, 09:36:34 pm
http://news.yahoo.com/diggers-ataris-e-t-games-landfill-193256509.html;_ylt=A0LEV11tJFxT.wEA0gtXNyoA;_ylu=X3oDMTB0ZnIxdG9hBHNlYwNzYwRjb2xvA2JmMQR2dGlkA1NNRTQyNF8x


lol whish I had kept my arari 2600

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EsQhUnXjXFQ
Title: Re: Diggers find Atari's E.T. games in landfill
Post by: Carling on April 27, 2014, 05:05:34 am
Quote from: Luis Gonzalez on April 27, 2014, 04:20:13 am
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EsQhUnXjXFQ

That Dukes of Hazard game may have been slightly better than the ET game. 
Title: Re: Diggers find Atari's E.T. games in landfill
Post by: Luis Gonzalez on April 27, 2014, 05:17:16 am
Quote from: Carling on April 27, 2014, 05:05:34 am
That Dukes of Hazard game may have been slightly better than the ET game.

I'm a Commodore C64 guy myself.

There some emulators for that out there too.