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Salvaging E.T. In Software, Instead of New Mexico

Posted by timothy on from the dust-to-dust dept.

Yesterday, we mentioned a just-approved effort to uncover the remains of goods dumped by Atari in New Mexico decades ago. New submitter Essellion writes "Among the games that legend has it are there is the Atari 2600 E.T. game, infamous for how bad it was. However, an excavator of another kind has cast doubts on how bad it was by exploring in depth the E.T. ROM, how it played and why, and designing some bug fixes for it."

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  1. Why are people trying to "experience" this? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    I mean I can understand the appeal of retro systems to a certain extent...at this point, for me, it's easier to run the ROM in an emulator on whatever given system I'm using (including my cell phone with RetroArch). E.T. was piled into a landfill for a reason, it's a terrible game, but if you really want to experience it that badly, fire it up in an emulator and give it a try. It's a lot faster than waiting for some folks looking for their 15 minutes of fame and few million dollars in retro collector's money. But really, you don't want to bother with either. It just sucks. You'll know all you need to from one Youtube search I'm sure.