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DOVEBLOB	Great reviews (E.T., Raiders)	Lead	[-]
Posts: 572 (09/15/08 1:01 PM) Bagel, Dammit! Bagel! Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Tags : None Those were some of the best reviews for those games I've ever seen. I love that "EGM's bandwagon" line. Another point about Raiders is that the item usage isn't very logical sometimes. Why does an hourglass turn into a grappling hook? I was never able to figure out how to get past the giant head without getting killed, so I'd always lose a life there. The graphics are so weird they gave me nightmares. Anyway, good job, and great to see you reviewing games again. Where can I find...a bagel?
Officer Prowl		#1	[-]
Posts: 295 (09/15/08 1:18 PM) A Donut's Worst Nightmare!! Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Thanks. But what about Dark Cavern? I reread DH's review of E.T. before I wrote mine and I thought hers was pretty good, too. Especially that line about how the phone pieces must have dirt on the FBI Agent because he really wants them to remain buried in the ground. For the record, I still think Atari 2600 Pac-Man and Donkey Kong are worse than E.T.
Emerald Lynk		#2	[-]
Posts: 59 (09/16/08 1:31 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	It's good to finally see someone give an honest and accurate review of E.T., unlike all the people who have never even touched a real 2600 before that bought into the internet hype and just called it the worst game ever after playing it for a few seconds on an emulator without really giving it a chance. And, yes, I agree that 2600 Pac-Man and Donkey Kong are worse. Both were huge ripoffs.
Flying Omelette		#3	[-]
Posts: 20891 (09/16/08 8:52 PM) But you had to have the BIIIIIG salad! Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Thanks, but I also think DH's review was pretty honest even if she focused more on humor than I did. Atari 2600 Donkey Kong was one of my biggest gaming-related disappointments. I knew from past experience that it wouldn't be exactly like the arcade game, but it's like no effort went into it at all. You'd have to purposefully kill yourself to ever get a game over in it. "There's a worse room than this?! How?! Is it on fire?"
Crawl and 1OOO		#4	[-]
Posts: 15594 (09/17/08 1:10 PM) Administrator Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	It's cool that you could get some reviews out quickly by reviewing short games. I played a little of ET, and while I had some trouble at first getting out of the pits, yeah, it's terribleness seems overstated. The main argument about that doesn't even relate to the game itself, it's that it "crashed the industry". But when I look at what's keeping the industry going today, I don't see why we should care about that argument either way. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
Flying Omelette		#5	[-]
Posts: 20891 (09/17/08 1:30 PM) But you had to have the BIIIIIG salad! Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	I heard that Atari ignored the criticism 2600 Pac-Man got because it sold so well that they used the excuse, "Well, look at how well it sold. Who cares what you think?" and they basically got the idea that people would buy anything. "There's a worse room than this?! How?! Is it on fire?"
Crawl and 1OOO		#6	[-]
Posts: 15594 (09/17/08 2:19 PM) Administrator Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	And it's not like ET itself made Atari overproduce it so much. Or made all the other shovelware on the system. It might have been emblematic of the crash, but it's not like people were like, "Boy, Atari games are great .... Wait, what's this ET? This sucks so bad I'll never play another videogame again!" 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
Magnus CROWE		#7	[-]
Posts: 899 (09/20/08 5:32 AM) Snooze Alarm Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Atari 2600 Donkey Kong was one of my biggest gaming-related disappointments. I knew from past experience that it wouldn't be exactly like the arcade game, but it's like no effort went into it at all. You'd have to purposefully kill yourself to ever get a game over in it. That was the version with the genie lamps sliding back and forth on the blue tower level, right? Man was that ever shit. Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great. - Mark Twain
Flying Omelette		#8	[-]
Posts: 20891 (09/24/08 6:07 PM) But you had to have the BIIIIIG salad! Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Doveblob told me that my Dark Cavern review was good, too, but she had nothing to comment on it because she never heard of the game before I reviewed it. "There's a worse room than this?! How?! Is it on fire?"
James FP		#9	[-]
Posts: 3164 (10/04/08 10:26 AM) Schmendrick's Nose Moderator Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	After years of hearing how horribly unplayable E.T. was, I was really shocked when DH fired up the game and beat it within a few minutes right around the time she reviewed it. I was like, that's it?!? Get out of my cheese, get into my corn!
LutherLansfeld		#10	[-]
Posts: 8 (01/18/09 5:26 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	That great Zanac review makes me think about downloading it on the Virtual Console. Last Edited By: LutherLansfeld 01/18/09 5:29 PM. Edited 1 times.

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