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Originally Posted by Tenser
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Originally Posted by Dudebro
The point is Atari didn't really care about staying true to the game itself. It's just about rushing the game out so people will buy it.
Ever heard of the E.T. game for atari 2600? It's considered the worst game ever made. It's also the game that basically sunk Atari as a home console company.
Actually reading wikipedia about this Pac Man it says combined with E.T. it caused the downfall of Atari and hurt the video game industry overall.
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Now its on...
A) Pac-Man for the Atari 2600 doesn't look like that because it was rushed. The 2600 had a VERY limited graphical engine. About half as powerful as the Colecovision. The system is incapable of making small round objects because of its incredibly low PPI.
B) E.T. is only considered the worst game ever made by internet noobs, new-school fanboys, and losers who hopped on the bandwagon because they have no idea what they're talking about. E.T. was a masterpiece for the 2600, arguably the best or second-best game on the system and was the first to introduced many new elements to video gaming.
C) E.T. didn't sink the Atari 2600. E.T. was introduced unfortunately right before the crash and flopped because of it and a media blitzkrieg.
D) The Great Crash of '82 was caused by three main factors;
1. An over-saturated market with, count 'em, 13 consoles, each with their own library.
2. The introduction to affordable personal computers, each supporting games themselves.
3. A spiraling price-war
Your Wiki is wrong in this instance. |
Figured you'd show up, I thought of you when I read the above's post.
Oh and BTW Wiki can, and many time is, useless, it can be bias, inaccurate, or incomplete.
I had a 2600, and still might, I wonder what my parents did with it...
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