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Indeed I agree, Yo-Yo. It did hurt them.
Atari had great properties that would have made a killing in the handheld market: Space Invaders, Asteroids, Missile Command, Pac-Man, even Breakout. They missed a golden opportunity. I think Missile Command in particular could have been realized as a handheld extremely well.

Indeed I agree, Yo-Yo. It did hurt them.
Atari had great properties that would have made a killing in the handheld market: Space Invaders, Asteroids, Missile Command, Pac-Man, even Breakout. They missed a golden opportunity. I think Missile Command in particular could have been realized as a handheld extremely well.

Indeed I agree, Yo-Yo. It did hurt them.
Atari had great properties that would have made a killing in the handheld market: Space Invaders, Asteroids, Missile Command, Pac-Man, even Breakout. They missed a golden opportunity. I think Missile Command in particular could have been realized as a handheld extremely well.

I wonder why Atari never capitalized on the handheld market. They certainly had the technical know-how to have at least attempted, but after Touch Me, they never made another beyond prototypes.

I wonder why Atari never capitalized on the handheld market. They certainly had the technical know-how to have at least attempted, but after Touch Me, they never made another beyond prototypes.

Thanks for sharing Justin.
Like I said on FB, I'm an E.T. apologist. Anyone that thinks this is the worst 2600 game, let alone video game of all-time, hasn't played many 2600 games.
 
I have fond memories of getting this for Christmas & playing it. It wasn't my favorite game in my collection but it was fun and I enjoyed. I had no idea it had this reputation until many years later.

There's a new interview with Howard Scott Warshaw out this week. It's actually quite a nice interview and I wanted to share the article with you. This quote really hit home:
 

“But, you know, the funny thing about the whole ET situation is if I were to take two more days, and gone in and cleaned up the well thing, the falling in, and straightened out a few more things, it probably would have made it just an OK game and we probably wouldn’t be talking about it right now. It would have literally changed history in a way that would have been much less interesting to me.” --Howard Scott Warshaw    
You can read the full story here:
http://www.playboy.com/articles/the-guy-who-made-the-worst-game-ever-has-nothing-to-apologize-for

I monitor our social media trends quite closely, and ever since Atari: Game Over came to the public mind on Netflix and Showtime I have seen a measurable change in how people generally approach the ET / Howard Scott Warshaw story.
 
This story was posted to our Facebook page the same it was posted here. Since then, our post has been shared dozens of times and has been seen by nearly 10,000 people on our Facebook page alone. More importantly, most of the ET comments, which usually trend aggressively negative, this time have been overwhelmingly positive - particularly in support of Howard and the notion that ET as the worst game ever made is preposterous.
 
You can see the post here: https://www.facebook.com/cx7800/posts/968124696564348
 
The turnaround in public opinion is astounding. There's been a noticeable shift away from unfounded hatred and cynicism, and towards a more reasonable understanding of the story, what happened, and that while not great it certainly wasn't the worst game of all time. It's wonderful to see Howard finally get the recognition he deserves, I think after 35 years that's a wonderful development in Atari's history.

Thanks for sharing Justin! Warshaw is awesome.
 
 

That's fantastic. HSW definitely did not deserve the scorn he received over the years.
 
  

The ghosts story is very interesting. I never heard the myth that Atari changed them from "monsters" to "ghosts".
 
Good stuff!

My collection? Umm...

ATARI:
2600(Light Sixer) (Doesn't work)
2600(Four Switch) (Doesn't work)
2600 Jr.

MATTEL:
Intellivision

MICROSOFT:
XBox

NINTENDO:
NES
Wii
Game Boy Advance SP
new 3DS XL: Hyrule Edition

SEGA:
Genesis
Dreamcast

SONY:
PlayStation
PSOne
Playstation 2
PSP

Uh, that's all my consoles. My largest software collection is Atari 2600.

Hell of a nice gift. That's gracious of you Stormy!

Yay! I'm glad you got it.
 
I'm REALLY sorry I don't have any controllers to go with it. 
 
I'm glad someone can get some use out of it. Enjoy!

I know! I'm really excited to play NES games now!

This came in the mail today, a gift from StormSurge.
 
Thanks, man!
 
Now I just need a controller, and soon I'll be saving the Princess from another castle!

I know! I'm really excited to play NES games now!

This came in the mail today, a gift from StormSurge.
 
Thanks, man!
 
Now I just need a controller, and soon I'll be saving the Princess from another castle!

This came in the mail today, a gift from StormSurge.
 
Thanks, man!
 
Now I just need a controller, and soon I'll be saving the Princess from another castle!

This came in the mail today, a gift from StormSurge.
 
Thanks, man!
 
Now I just need a controller, and soon I'll be saving the Princess from another castle!

I know! I'm really excited to play NES games now!

This came in the mail today, a gift from StormSurge.
 
Thanks, man!
 
Now I just need a controller, and soon I'll be saving the Princess from another castle!

This came in the mail today, a gift from StormSurge.
 
Thanks, man!
 
Now I just need a controller, and soon I'll be saving the Princess from another castle!

Thanks to Rick for increasing my Saturn collection.
Soviet Strike has an EA insert in it. Might have to scan it in the future!

Oh NICE one, of all the ways I can play a 2600 cart this method still eludes me lol, so cool I gotta get one someday especially considering my only Intellivision is an INTV II anyways lol. That one looks very clean. Funny both Colecovision and Intellivision got expansions to play 2600 but the good old 2600 was never given ability to play Intellivision / Colecovision, yeah I know it was the less powerful console but just funny how that was. If you had an Intellivision and this add-on you would have been doing pretty damn good I think.