Low, uninformed blow. By the time Pitfall comes out, the Atari 2600 has been extant for five full years, and David Crane
On Mon, Aug 31, 2015 at 1:41 PM, drlegendre . <drlegen...@gmail.com> wrote: > Funny you should mention Pitfall! Because it wasn't really until the 3rd > party 'blockbusters' from outfits like Activision appeared, that the gaming > public came to realize just how seriously lazy and unimaginative Atari's > in-house development team was. > > On Sun, Aug 30, 2015 at 8:09 PM, Tothwolf <tothw...@concentric.net> wrote: > > > On Sun, 30 Aug 2015, drlegendre . wrote: > > > >> On Sun, Aug 30, 2015 at 1:41 PM, Ali <cct...@fahimi.net> wrote: > >> > >> How might a collector discern a "landfill" E.T. cart from any other E.T. > >>>> cat that some snarky guy buried in the clay of his back forty? > >>>> > >>> > >>> Not that I am expert or anything but my understanding is that the ET > >>> cart is extremely rare to begin with. In fact the landfill collection > is > >>> the largest supply of the cart to be injected into the market. > >>> > >> > >> A quick search of eBay would correct your 'understanding'. There are > >> dozens of copies for sale, many with boxes and manuals. They start at > about > >> $5.00. > >> > >> The game is very common, and generally considered worthless. It's a > joke, > >> possibly the "worst video game ever made" - up there with Superman 64 > for > >> N64. > >> > > > > When I used to buy Atari stuff at resale shops to build my own collection > > (back in the early to mid 1990s when people were practically giving away > > 2600 stuff), ET seemed to be pretty common. It wasn't nearly as common as > > Pac-Man or Pitfall! or a pack-in game like Combat, but I saw them > > frequently. I gave/traded away quite a few copies of ET but kept at least > > one. > > >
