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History Lesson: The Atari 7800 - too little, too late?
As we skip back in time once a week to scope out old systems, dramatic licence made it inevitable that we'd meet one time-travelling the other way.
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This system was actually great, but they couldn't get the same games as the NES because of Nintendo's non-competition clause in their third party licensing contracts. Still, it plays some arcade games beautifully and has a few forgotten gems.
I remember getting this from some garage sale just to give it a try and see what I missed out on. It had ET: The Extraterrestrial as the only game that came with the unit. So once I figured out how to splice the damaged wires and fix a couple of connectors I got the system to work, only to play the worst game in the world on it...
Do you know the story behind the ET game? The short of it is that Hollywood wanted to cash in on this "video game" trend and offered ET to be the first. And then they gave the developers 6 months to make it.
Should've just dug up a copy. Or gone for Pitfall.
Well that confirms it, I did play the worlds worst game on a system that took me 2 days to fix.
I played ET on the Atari about 30 years ago and I still remember thinking "what the hell is going on?" You need Reese's Pieces and (what I'm told are) engine parts? And sometimes you fall down a hole for no reason and may you'll die in there unless you squgglle the right way.. and.. uh.. Imma play Pitfall.
Haha, yeah I had no clue what I was doing! Wish I got a few other games before selling the system for a 10 buck profit lol.
Looks like I'm a little off on my facts.
Five weeks, damn.
Damn... five weeks is nothing! I can't even finish a 5000 piece puzzle in 5 weeks.