Comment on E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial - Bad Game Hall of Fame
orbitz@lemmy.ca 4 days agoI had fun playing it in the mid 80s but I didn’t have a ton of games at the time either. Have a fond memory of it overall (maybe because I liked the movie), and still enjoying video games these days. Don’t think I played the Indiana Jones one to compare though.
MajorHavoc@programming.dev 4 days ago
I played E.T. relatively recently to remind myself what the fuss was about.
The game plays fine (with average Atari bugginess).
It just stands out as an early huge miss for a movie tie in. Almost nothing about the game feels like the movie, or is particularly anything a fan of the movie would seem likely to enjoy.
I say “almost” because the exploring kind of fits. The same exploring that is constantly frustratingly interrupted by pit falls.
It’s really not that bad of a game, though.
orbitz@lemmy.ca 4 days ago
I do see what you’re saying but how I see it, and thinking of all the awful movie tie in games from NES era, ET felt better than average in theme. He had to find the phone pieces and avoid the government agents while wandering in the woods. Not too too different from the movie theme in overall thinking.
Now I’m not saying gameplay was good or anything but think of all the cheesy tie in movie games of the NES era, they’re all some random platformer which sometimes alluded to they had a movie name. Of course there were good ones but best ones I can think of were Duck Tales and Rescue Rangers, not tied to a specific movie or episode. Then you get your Back to the Future has little to do with the actual movie.
MajorHavoc@programming.dev 4 days ago
That’s a good point. E.T. was not alone in this, and had more to do with it’s movie that many games that followed.