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

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."

Comments

Re:My friend had that game.

[I'm New Around Here]

Well, you are right on the second point. I have no idea what that game was.

As for being spoiled, notice I said my friend owned the game. At that time (late 70s to early 80s), my games included climbing trees, running through the fields, and splashing in the crick (that's a creek that is too small to actually swim in) then pouring salt on the bloodsuckers to get them off our legs.

Re:My friend had that game.

[evilviper]

my games included climbing trees, running through the fields, and splashing in the crick (that's a creek that is too small to actually swim in) then pouring salt on the bloodsuckers to get them off our legs.

Hey kid. Wanna go see a dead body?