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Title: I finally did it!
Post by: Eiksirf on December 29, 2004, 05:59:07 PM: I recently picked up E.T. for Atari. The worst game of all time.

As a kid it tormented me. I couldn\'t defeat it.

But now that I have it, I learned that you don\'t just fall into holes. There are icons that can be activated that tell you which holes to fall into.

Then there\'s a phone icon where you activate a phone. And a landing zone icon where the ship comes to rescue you.

It took me some effort, but I beat E.T.!

The game that took 6 weeks to make, took me 21 years to beat. :)

I have closed this chapter of my childhood.

Now I\'m waiting for the Atari Kid\'s Controller to arrive so I can relive Big Bird\'s Egg Catch.

I\'m not kidding. ;]

-Dan

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Title: I finally did it!
Post by: mjps21983 on December 29, 2004, 06:28:32 PM: congrats, man congrats
Title: I finally did it!
Post by: mm on December 29, 2004, 06:31:27 PM: i always liked how when you beat the game, you can just start over and continue the same score
Title: I finally did it!
Post by: Eiksirf on December 29, 2004, 06:36:05 PM: Heh, show off. I just learned that today. I read about a kid who played for five hours straight and got over 1,000,000. Gotta love Atari games, heh.

Me, I scored 2,900 or so points and may never touch it again. I didn\'t feed Elliot any Reeses Pieces.

-Dan
Title: I finally did it!
Post by: Paul2 on December 29, 2004, 07:24:13 PM: wow.

interesting to see you dig up and old game and 21 years to beat...
Title: I finally did it!
Post by: Titan on December 29, 2004, 08:10:20 PM: I feel that way sometimes about old NES games. Most I never beat.
Title: I finally did it!
Post by: Living-In-Clip on December 30, 2004, 06:48:07 PM: So, you went to a Mexican landfill to pick up an old game?
Cool!
Title: I finally did it!
Post by: Lord Nicon on December 30, 2004, 06:56:56 PM: Quote
Originally posted by Living-In-Clip
So, you went to a Mexican landfill to pick up an old game?
Cool!

I thought it was some other desert. Meh

There are plenty of nes games like that for me. I had an atari but i was far to young to actually get into them like nes games so i dont have any quest for that system, though i still pick up genesis, psx, n64 games, (i used to get nes games but my nes died this year:( )
Title: I finally did it!
Post by: Eiksirf on December 30, 2004, 09:49:16 PM: I think they\'re in a New Mexico landfill, cemented over with a bunch of extra Pac-Man games and Atari systems.

That\'s the rumor going around town.

I stopped picking up N64 games once I got Paper Mario. Though, that reminds me I need to get Mario 64 again...

I only have two Dreamcast games and I didn\'t like either one (Bass Fishing, Shenmue). That should be the next system I get games for.

-Dan
Title: I finally did it!
Post by: Paul2 on December 30, 2004, 10:48:12 PM: got cash to burn for the holidays season eh?^^^

Hopes you have a good time with it.
Title: I finally did it!
Post by: Jumpman on December 31, 2004, 04:15:44 AM: Yeah something like that happened with me and MegaManX. When it first came out I got it and was dominating all the levels, bosses, nothing in particular. Then come the dread Sigma finale. A series of tough levels, extremely difficult bosses, and the grand battle with 3 forms of Sigma himself(if you count the dog). The dog and regular Sigma were usually easily disposed thanks to jumping on the side of the wall and shooting. But his last form always got me. It was the most difficult and confusing. You had to dodge all kind of stuff, you could insta die from hitting the spikes, and I just didn\'t know what to use on him.

After a while it become to much a drag to get all the way up to him(which was in itself extremely difficult and often I\'d fail). To make a long story short I reminded myself about gamefaqs.com and learned it was the roller gun to kill him and 9 years after only failing to not be this one game I finally did it. Felt good.
Title: I finally did it!
Post by: Lord Nicon on December 31, 2004, 09:57:32 PM: Yeah all the sigmas are hard. Well not all of them but at least one form in every game. Even X4 (which i used to play like crazy) and X5 had hard sigma bosses.
Title: I finally did it!
Post by: Living-In-Clip on January 01, 2005, 01:37:11 AM: Quote
Originally posted by Eiksirf
I think they\'re in a New Mexico landfill, cemented over with a bunch of extra Pac-Man games and Atari systems.

That\'s the rumor going around town.

I stopped picking up N64 games once I got Paper Mario. Though, that reminds me I need to get Mario 64 again...

I only have two Dreamcast games and I didn\'t like either one (Bass Fishing, Shenmue). That should be the next system I get games for.

-Dan

Love..
My...
DC...
GAMES!
Title: I finally did it!
Post by: Blade on January 01, 2005, 04:36:22 AM: KEEP FRIENDS...

THOSE... YOU LOVE...

[size=30]CLOSE T\'YOU![/size] *very quickly dies*
Title: I finally did it!
Post by: Ashford on January 03, 2005, 10:54:07 AM: Shenmueeeeeeee

:(
Title: I finally did it!
Post by: Bobs_Hardware on January 03, 2005, 04:23:11 PM: Dun dun dun didididididi dun dun dun didididididi dun dun dun didididididi

...was supposed to be the little tune from Close to You by The Cure...... kind of lost in the translation. :(
Title: I finally did it!
Post by: Blade on January 03, 2005, 04:45:44 PM: Dun dun... dun dun dun Duuunnnnn dun.. dun dun dun.. dun dun dun dun Duunnnnnnn.. dun dun dun DUN dun DUN DUN dun dun.. dun dun dun.. Duuuuuuuuunnnn.. dun dun DUN dun.. dun dun dun Dun dun Dun dun DUN duh DUHHHHHHHHHHHNNNNN.. dun... DUN...

What is it?
Title: I finally did it!
Post by: THX on January 03, 2005, 05:18:17 PM: I think it was Gamepro that named ET for Atari one of the top 5 worst Movie to videogame adaptions ever made. Good work to you. :nerd:

I\'ve always wanted to beat Bionic Commando. It\'s fun the first level or so but just gets eh after a while.
Title: I finally did it!
Post by: unknown on January 14, 2005, 08:16:39 AM: contra for nintendo was the only game that would whoop my ars. I finally beat i 5 years later when i could understand controls etc.