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I didn't fully manage to complete my objective, mainly because I was too busy trying to avoid the bad guys. When I played this game, I knew how to levitate out but, more often than not, I moved to get out of the way only to fall back in again. Sure, much of the game is spent falling down pits to collect the necessary pieces, but falling into these pits every five seconds gets tiresome after a while. scurry across the screen if his enemies are on his tail.Īfter developing two excellent games, namely Raiders of the Lost Ark and Yar's Revenge, HSW should be ashamed of himself for creating a game so mediocre it was partly responsible for the video game crash of 1983. You can press the fire button while moving the joystick left or right to make E.T. beams down in his spaceship sounds futuristic. is drawn the way it should, and Howard Scott Warshaw, the game's programmer, provided an excellent rendition of the theme.Īlthough the graphics are blocky, this is what Atari's games look like back then, and the sound effect heard when E.T. is one of the few Atari 2600 games to actually have a title screen, and the title screen in this game is good enough. Moving around decreases your health, but pieces belonging to Reese can be picked up and used to restore some of that health.Į.T. Once you manage to collect all three pieces, you then have to return to your home base in a limited amount of time so that the spaceship hopefully comes back and picks you up. FBI guy) that will chase you around, making your job difficult, stealing pieces or transporting you elsewhere if you are caught. for the Atari 2600 doesn't have much of a plot.The object is to collect three pieces of a telephone located in the many pits, while avoiding two guys (scientists and Mr. There are also a few more games that were released over the years, for different platforms, with varying degrees of success.Į.T. The movie was released in 1992, with a game from Atari released the same year. This game is based on the movie with the same name, which I have yet to watch.
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