ET, The Game
Alot of you might’ve heard of this game before. I somehow managed to get a copy of this game, a working Atari with the Joystick controller, so here is my review of this game:
Its quite simple really I never want to play this game again, EVER.
First thing you see when you switch it on is ET’s head with what seems to be the ET theme song….its an Atari, so I excused the horrible sounds.I clicked the button and went on to the first screen where you get ET, on a Spaceship I suppose and it drops you off. Yep. Thats it. so I decide to explore a little(VERY SLOWLY) and notice a darker spot of the screen and go towards it. I fell down. Into a hole. I wonder how to get out of this hole, I move the joystick everyway possible, then I press one of the buttons and I started levitating, I was thinking ALRIGHT this game is getting better! (boy do I wish I was right) I make my way out of the hole…and fall straight…back…in the same hole. I did this for at least 10 min and finally made my way out, by this time I was ready to turn it off but didn’t for reviewing sake. I go to the next screen and Behold! More dark spots and a TINY little Black Dot, I go over to the dot and now it has the number “1” at the bottom, I wonder what its for, give up on trying and continue, I found some more Black Dots and the Number eventually became 2…3. ..and so on. After Collecting as many dots as I could I ran into a man in an over-coat who grabbed me and took all my “dots” away and put me in a different screen, that son-of-a-bitch. I go looking for my “Dots” again and fall into a hole, turn off the atari and throw the cartridge against the wall, chipping the edge of the game.
I did some research: Apparently to win the game you have to look for Pieces of a Phone so you can “Phone Home”. Guess how you find those pieces? You look in every…single…hole, yes those ones that took me 10 min to get out and there was easily 20+. Those “Dots” I was collecting were “Reese’s Pieces” and if you get them all apparently that one kid comes and gives you a piece of the phone, Makes sense? Right?…Anyone?
I give this game a 0 out of 5, I even considered a negative number.
