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    80s, Bad, and Christmas: Chris Kohler @kobunheat 18m
 We have ET. WE HAVE ET pic.twitter.com/fIPTXgsyoo
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lightspeedsound:
videogamesarepurehappiness:

maqdaddio:

ask-gallows-callibrator:

vergess:

coelasquid:

derples:

raisehelia:

cavebae:

estpolis:

mrdappersden:

They did it, they fucking did it.

holyfducjk

HISTORY

holy shit!

can someone explain this to me

Thirty years ago a legendary ET game came to fruition, so awful that as the tale told, all unsold copies of it were buried in a pit in New Mexico. A documentary film crew has just unearthed the stash, proving the legend true.

I don’t think people fully grasp just how awful it was. This one game, by the sheer merit of its unmatched shittiness, destroyed the video game and console market so thoroughly that the at home video game nearly went the way of the 8-track player.
It was literally so awful that it nearly changed the entire course of technology.

how can a video game possibly be that bad

People don’t really understand why it was terrible though, and the reasons why are extremely important and relevant especially today.
The game itself is bad, yes. It was built up to be an exciting hit for kids to play at Christmas in 1982. So much in fact, that retailers bought WAY more stock then could every be sold based on the hype.
However, people at the time liked the game. It looks bad now, but the game itself was pretty on par with the times. It wound up selling 1.5 million copies. Which would be great, except Atari was expecting to sell 4-5 million.
While initial reception was positive, critics started panning the game as critics do. While it was no worse than most other games at the time, it was stil frustrating and hard to play. It could not live up to the hype that had been built and negative press built up quickly.
But what was ALSO happening was a flood of cheap imitations on the market. ET is a licensed game, and like all licenses comes at a higher markup. So if you wanted to buy a game for yourself or your kid, would you buy 1 game, or 2 for the same price?
Atari was also screwing around with how they handled their distributors. Just before the game went to public, but AFTER the game had been bought and shipped, Atari announced that they were cancelling every existing contract with distributors and signing with only a select few.
So distributors, now pissed off and with an abundance of games that were NOT selling and with prices slashed horribly to sell games that people were quickly losing interest in, retailers put their claims to return a collective 2.5-3.5 million copies back to Atari. Atari, unable to recycle the cartridges or resell them in any way, wound up burying them in the Nevada desert.


This caused the Video Game Crash of the early 80s that put a dark mark on video games until Nintendo (and in some small part other game companies) to revive later. 
 It was the perfect storm. An over-hyped overpriced game sold to an increasingly frustrated and over-saturated market with retailers scrambling to make a dime while Game Devs blame the market for poor sales.

Some say the proverbial planets are aligning again, with way too many consoles putting way too samey games on the market at way too high a cost with a strong dependence on Pre-orders and pre-order exclusives.

Wanna give the game a shot?  Internet Archives actually has a copy of it at this link:
https://archive.org/details/E.T._The_Extra-Terrestrial_1982_Atari_NTSC

this is like the dutch tulip bubble of our times

    

        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
    

    

        

            
            

                
                80s, Bad, and Christmas: Chris Kohler @kobunheat 18m
 We have ET. WE HAVE ET pic.twitter.com/fIPTXgsyoo
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lightspeedsound:
videogamesarepurehappiness:

maqdaddio:

ask-gallows-callibrator:

vergess:

coelasquid:

derples:

raisehelia:

cavebae:

estpolis:

mrdappersden:

They did it, they fucking did it.

holyfducjk

HISTORY

holy shit!

can someone explain this to me

Thirty years ago a legendary ET game came to fruition, so awful that as the tale told, all unsold copies of it were buried in a pit in New Mexico. A documentary film crew has just unearthed the stash, proving the legend true.

I don’t think people fully grasp just how awful it was. This one game, by the sheer merit of its unmatched shittiness, destroyed the video game and console market so thoroughly that the at home video game nearly went the way of the 8-track player.
It was literally so awful that it nearly changed the entire course of technology.

how can a video game possibly be that bad

People don’t really understand why it was terrible though, and the reasons why are extremely important and relevant especially today.
The game itself is bad, yes. It was built up to be an exciting hit for kids to play at Christmas in 1982. So much in fact, that retailers bought WAY more stock then could every be sold based on the hype.
However, people at the time liked the game. It looks bad now, but the game itself was pretty on par with the times. It wound up selling 1.5 million copies. Which would be great, except Atari was expecting to sell 4-5 million.
While initial reception was positive, critics started panning the game as critics do. While it was no worse than most other games at the time, it was stil frustrating and hard to play. It could not live up to the hype that had been built and negative press built up quickly.
But what was ALSO happening was a flood of cheap imitations on the market. ET is a licensed game, and like all licenses comes at a higher markup. So if you wanted to buy a game for yourself or your kid, would you buy 1 game, or 2 for the same price?
Atari was also screwing around with how they handled their distributors. Just before the game went to public, but AFTER the game had been bought and shipped, Atari announced that they were cancelling every existing contract with distributors and signing with only a select few.
So distributors, now pissed off and with an abundance of games that were NOT selling and with prices slashed horribly to sell games that people were quickly losing interest in, retailers put their claims to return a collective 2.5-3.5 million copies back to Atari. Atari, unable to recycle the cartridges or resell them in any way, wound up burying them in the Nevada desert.


This caused the Video Game Crash of the early 80s that put a dark mark on video games until Nintendo (and in some small part other game companies) to revive later. 
 It was the perfect storm. An over-hyped overpriced game sold to an increasingly frustrated and over-saturated market with retailers scrambling to make a dime while Game Devs blame the market for poor sales.

Some say the proverbial planets are aligning again, with way too many consoles putting way too samey games on the market at way too high a cost with a strong dependence on Pre-orders and pre-order exclusives.

Wanna give the game a shot?  Internet Archives actually has a copy of it at this link:
https://archive.org/details/E.T._The_Extra-Terrestrial_1982_Atari_NTSC

this is like the dutch tulip bubble of our times

                
            

            
            
lightspeedsound:
videogamesarepurehappiness:

maqdaddio:

ask-gallows-callibrator:

vergess:

coelasquid:

derples:

raisehelia:

cavebae:

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    80s, Bad, and Christmas: Chris Kohler @kobunheat 18m
 We have ET. WE HAVE ET pic.twitter.com/fIPTXgsyoo
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 Chris Kohler @kobunheat-4m
 Close up. pic.twitter.com/inSKukib24
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lightspeedsound:

videogamesarepurehappiness:

maqdaddio:

ask-gallows-callibrator:

vergess:

coelasquid:

derples:

raisehelia:

cavebae:

estpolis:

mrdappersden:

They did it, they fucking did it.

holyfducjk

HISTORY

holy shit!

can someone explain this to me

Thirty years ago a legendary ET game came to fruition, so awful that as the tale told, all unsold copies of it were buried in a pit in New Mexico. A documentary film crew has just unearthed the stash, proving the legend true.

I don’t think people fully grasp just how awful it was. This one game, by the sheer merit of its unmatched shittiness, destroyed the video game and console market so thoroughly that the at home video game nearly went the way of the 8-track player.
It was literally so awful that it nearly changed the entire course of technology.

how can a video game possibly be that bad

People don’t really understand why it was terrible though, and the reasons why are extremely important and relevant especially today.
The game itself is bad, yes. It was built up to be an exciting hit for kids to play at Christmas in 1982. So much in fact, that retailers bought WAY more stock then could every be sold based on the hype.
However, people at the time liked the game. It looks bad now, but the game itself was pretty on par with the times. It wound up selling 1.5 million copies. Which would be great, except Atari was expecting to sell 4-5 million.
While initial reception was positive, critics started panning the game as critics do. While it was no worse than most other games at the time, it was stil frustrating and hard to play. It could not live up to the hype that had been built and negative press built up quickly.
But what was ALSO happening was a flood of cheap imitations on the market. ET is a licensed game, and like all licenses comes at a higher markup. So if you wanted to buy a game for yourself or your kid, would you buy 1 game, or 2 for the same price?
Atari was also screwing around with how they handled their distributors. Just before the game went to public, but AFTER the game had been bought and shipped, Atari announced that they were cancelling every existing contract with distributors and signing with only a select few.
So distributors, now pissed off and with an abundance of games that were NOT selling and with prices slashed horribly to sell games that people were quickly losing interest in, retailers put their claims to return a collective 2.5-3.5 million copies back to Atari. Atari, unable to recycle the cartridges or resell them in any way, wound up burying them in the Nevada desert.


This caused the Video Game Crash of the early 80s that put a dark mark on video games until Nintendo (and in some small part other game companies) to revive later. 
 It was the perfect storm. An over-hyped overpriced game sold to an increasingly frustrated and over-saturated market with retailers scrambling to make a dime while Game Devs blame the market for poor sales.

Some say the proverbial planets are aligning again, with way too many consoles putting way too samey games on the market at way too high a cost with a strong dependence on Pre-orders and pre-order exclusives.

Wanna give the game a shot?  Internet Archives actually has a copy of it at this link:
https://archive.org/details/E.T._The_Extra-Terrestrial_1982_Atari_NTSC

this is like the dutch tulip bubble of our times

    

        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
    

    

        

            
            

                
                80s, Bad, and Christmas: Chris Kohler @kobunheat 18m
 We have ET. WE HAVE ET pic.twitter.com/fIPTXgsyoo
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 Chris Kohler @kobunheat-4m
 Close up. pic.twitter.com/inSKukib24
 ATARI
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lightspeedsound:

videogamesarepurehappiness:

maqdaddio:

ask-gallows-callibrator:

vergess:

coelasquid:

derples:

raisehelia:

cavebae:

estpolis:

mrdappersden:

They did it, they fucking did it.

holyfducjk

HISTORY

holy shit!

can someone explain this to me

Thirty years ago a legendary ET game came to fruition, so awful that as the tale told, all unsold copies of it were buried in a pit in New Mexico. A documentary film crew has just unearthed the stash, proving the legend true.

I don’t think people fully grasp just how awful it was. This one game, by the sheer merit of its unmatched shittiness, destroyed the video game and console market so thoroughly that the at home video game nearly went the way of the 8-track player.
It was literally so awful that it nearly changed the entire course of technology.

how can a video game possibly be that bad

People don’t really understand why it was terrible though, and the reasons why are extremely important and relevant especially today.
The game itself is bad, yes. It was built up to be an exciting hit for kids to play at Christmas in 1982. So much in fact, that retailers bought WAY more stock then could every be sold based on the hype.
However, people at the time liked the game. It looks bad now, but the game itself was pretty on par with the times. It wound up selling 1.5 million copies. Which would be great, except Atari was expecting to sell 4-5 million.
While initial reception was positive, critics started panning the game as critics do. While it was no worse than most other games at the time, it was stil frustrating and hard to play. It could not live up to the hype that had been built and negative press built up quickly.
But what was ALSO happening was a flood of cheap imitations on the market. ET is a licensed game, and like all licenses comes at a higher markup. So if you wanted to buy a game for yourself or your kid, would you buy 1 game, or 2 for the same price?
Atari was also screwing around with how they handled their distributors. Just before the game went to public, but AFTER the game had been bought and shipped, Atari announced that they were cancelling every existing contract with distributors and signing with only a select few.
So distributors, now pissed off and with an abundance of games that were NOT selling and with prices slashed horribly to sell games that people were quickly losing interest in, retailers put their claims to return a collective 2.5-3.5 million copies back to Atari. Atari, unable to recycle the cartridges or resell them in any way, wound up burying them in the Nevada desert.


This caused the Video Game Crash of the early 80s that put a dark mark on video games until Nintendo (and in some small part other game companies) to revive later. 
 It was the perfect storm. An over-hyped overpriced game sold to an increasingly frustrated and over-saturated market with retailers scrambling to make a dime while Game Devs blame the market for poor sales.

Some say the proverbial planets are aligning again, with way too many consoles putting way too samey games on the market at way too high a cost with a strong dependence on Pre-orders and pre-order exclusives.

Wanna give the game a shot?  Internet Archives actually has a copy of it at this link:
https://archive.org/details/E.T._The_Extra-Terrestrial_1982_Atari_NTSC

this is like the dutch tulip bubble of our times

                
            

            
            
lightspeedsound:

videogamesarepurehappiness:

maqdaddio:

ask-gallows-callibrator:

vergess:

coelasquid:

derples:

raisehelia:

cavebae:
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    Troll, Technology, and Swiss: Bridge troll is defeated by modern technology (Swiss Alps, ca. 1960)
    

        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
    

    

        

            
            

                
                Troll, Technology, and Swiss: Bridge troll is defeated by modern technology (Swiss Alps, ca. 1960)
                
            

            
            
Bridge troll is defeated by modern technology (Swiss Alps, ca. 1960)

            
            
        

    



        

            
        
        

            




    Ass, Crazy, and Frozen:  #WonderGal
 @amazonheroicon
 Follow
 You don't need to avenge this one. She could
 remain dusted.
 Because she's one unnecessary garbage.
 Smarter person in the world my ass. You
 morons only say this because she is black.
 There's no way a teenager can create and
 develop all this technology in Wakanda.
 12
 Bullshit.

 AVENGE THE
 L L E N
 MARVEL STUDIOS
 APRIL 26

 Heather Hughson
 @HNHughson
 Follow
 Replying to @amazonheroicon
 So in a universe of superheroes with magic
 powers and living Norse gods, the one thing
 you find unbelievable is a smart black girl
 from a society that values smart black girls,
 and has valued them for centuries?
 9:28 PM 26 Mar 2019
 1,657 Retweets 12,912 Likes

 yunki luvr
 @sirenmyg
 Follow
 Replying to @amazonheroicon
 @THICJO0N: "so you can accept a teenage
 boy who shoots webs and swings from
 buildings, a man frozen in ice waking up and
 having super human strength, another man
 turning big and green before turning back
 into a human but not a young black girl being
 crazy smart?"
 12:39 PM 26 Mar 2019
 607 Retweets 14.469 Likes3O9
glisteningsoftly:

blackqueerblog:

this is a universe where people have superpowers and there are talking trees but this person thinks having a smart teenage girl is unrealistic ok

She’s racist. That’s all. She’s trying to make her BS make sense but the truth is she just hates black people. InVALID 
    

        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
    

    

        

            
            

                
                Ass, Crazy, and Frozen:  #WonderGal
 @amazonheroicon
 Follow
 You don't need to avenge this one. She could
 remain dusted.
 Because she's one unnecessary garbage.
 Smarter person in the world my ass. You
 morons only say this because she is black.
 There's no way a teenager can create and
 develop all this technology in Wakanda.
 12
 Bullshit.

 AVENGE THE
 L L E N
 MARVEL STUDIOS
 APRIL 26

 Heather Hughson
 @HNHughson
 Follow
 Replying to @amazonheroicon
 So in a universe of superheroes with magic
 powers and living Norse gods, the one thing
 you find unbelievable is a smart black girl
 from a society that values smart black girls,
 and has valued them for centuries?
 9:28 PM 26 Mar 2019
 1,657 Retweets 12,912 Likes

 yunki luvr
 @sirenmyg
 Follow
 Replying to @amazonheroicon
 @THICJO0N: "so you can accept a teenage
 boy who shoots webs and swings from
 buildings, a man frozen in ice waking up and
 having super human strength, another man
 turning big and green before turning back
 into a human but not a young black girl being
 crazy smart?"
 12:39 PM 26 Mar 2019
 607 Retweets 14.469 Likes3O9
glisteningsoftly:

blackqueerblog:

this is a universe where people have superpowers and there are talking trees but this person thinks having a smart teenage girl is unrealistic ok

She’s racist. That’s all. She’s trying to make her BS make sense but the truth is she just hates black people. InVALID 
                
            

            
            
glisteningsoftly:

blackqueerblog:

this is a universe where people have superpowers and there are talking trees but this person thinks havi...

            
            
        

    



        

            
        
        

            



        

            
        
        

            



        

            
        
        

            




    Ass, Crazy, and Frozen:  #WonderGal
 @amazonheroicon
 Follow
 You don't need to avenge this one. She could
 remain dusted.
 Because she's one unnecessary garbage.
 Smarter person in the world my ass. You
 morons only say this because she is black.
 There's no way a teenager can create and
 develop all this technology in Wakanda.
 12
 Bullshit.

 AVENGE THE
 L L E N
 MARVEL STUDIOS
 APRIL 26

 Heather Hughson
 @HNHughson
 Follow
 Replying to @amazonheroicon
 So in a universe of superheroes with magic
 powers and living Norse gods, the one thing
 you find unbelievable is a smart black girl
 from a society that values smart black girls,
 and has valued them for centuries?
 9:28 PM 26 Mar 2019
 1,657 Retweets 12,912 Likes

 yunki luvr
 @sirenmyg
 Follow
 Replying to @amazonheroicon
 @THICJO0N: "so you can accept a teenage
 boy who shoots webs and swings from
 buildings, a man frozen in ice waking up and
 having super human strength, another man
 turning big and green before turning back
 into a human but not a young black girl being
 crazy smart?"
 12:39 PM 26 Mar 2019
 607 Retweets 14.469 Likes3O9
blackqueerblog:
this is a universe where people have superpowers and there are talking trees but this person thinks having a smart teenage girl is unrealistic ok


Imagine being this mad over a fictional character.Like half of the Avengers are supergeniuses but I guess Shuri being one is just a bridge too far 🙄Also I’m pretty sure she didn’t even get dusted during the snap in the first place so what is there to avenge? This whole tweet is a mess.
    

        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
    

    

        

            
            

                
                Ass, Crazy, and Frozen:  #WonderGal
 @amazonheroicon
 Follow
 You don't need to avenge this one. She could
 remain dusted.
 Because she's one unnecessary garbage.
 Smarter person in the world my ass. You
 morons only say this because she is black.
 There's no way a teenager can create and
 develop all this technology in Wakanda.
 12
 Bullshit.

 AVENGE THE
 L L E N
 MARVEL STUDIOS
 APRIL 26

 Heather Hughson
 @HNHughson
 Follow
 Replying to @amazonheroicon
 So in a universe of superheroes with magic
 powers and living Norse gods, the one thing
 you find unbelievable is a smart black girl
 from a society that values smart black girls,
 and has valued them for centuries?
 9:28 PM 26 Mar 2019
 1,657 Retweets 12,912 Likes

 yunki luvr
 @sirenmyg
 Follow
 Replying to @amazonheroicon
 @THICJO0N: "so you can accept a teenage
 boy who shoots webs and swings from
 buildings, a man frozen in ice waking up and
 having super human strength, another man
 turning big and green before turning back
 into a human but not a young black girl being
 crazy smart?"
 12:39 PM 26 Mar 2019
 607 Retweets 14.469 Likes3O9
blackqueerblog:
this is a universe where people have superpowers and there are talking trees but this person thinks having a smart teenage girl is unrealistic ok


Imagine being this mad over a fictional character.Like half of the Avengers are supergeniuses but I guess Shuri being one is just a bridge too far 🙄Also I’m pretty sure she didn’t even get dusted during the snap in the first place so what is there to avenge? This whole tweet is a mess.
                
            

            
            
blackqueerblog:
this is a universe where people have superpowers and there are talking trees but this person thinks having a smart teenage g...

            
            
        

    



        

            
        
        

            




    Ass, Crazy, and Frozen:  #WonderGal
 @amazonheroicon
 Follow
 You don't need to avenge this one. She could
 remain dusted.
 Because she's one unnecessary garbage.
 Smarter person in the world my ass. You
 morons only say this because she is black.
 There's no way a teenager can create and
 develop all this technology in Wakanda.
 12
 Bullshit.

 AVENGE THE
 L L E N
 MARVEL STUDIOS
 APRIL 26

 Heather Hughson
 @HNHughson
 Follow
 Replying to @amazonheroicon
 So in a universe of superheroes with magic
 powers and living Norse gods, the one thing
 you find unbelievable is a smart black girl
 from a society that values smart black girls,
 and has valued them for centuries?
 9:28 PM 26 Mar 2019
 1,657 Retweets 12,912 Likes

 yunki luvr
 @sirenmyg
 Follow
 Replying to @amazonheroicon
 @THICJO0N: "so you can accept a teenage
 boy who shoots webs and swings from
 buildings, a man frozen in ice waking up and
 having super human strength, another man
 turning big and green before turning back
 into a human but not a young black girl being
 crazy smart?"
 12:39 PM 26 Mar 2019
 607 Retweets 14.469 Likes3O9
wade-wilzon:

blackqueerblog:
this is a universe where people have superpowers and there are talking trees but this person thinks having a smart teenage girl is unrealistic ok

so y’all racists be fine with peter parker having one of the highest IQ scores in the marvel universe at the age of 15 and older and making his own web fluid and web-shooters - a fluid and a mechanism that were never invented before - adn all his suit later on and being an actual no5 in the top 5 most intelligent marvel scientist, but y’all be not ok with a young black girl being just as smart if not smarter? i see.
    

        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
    

    

        

            
            

                
                Ass, Crazy, and Frozen:  #WonderGal
 @amazonheroicon
 Follow
 You don't need to avenge this one. She could
 remain dusted.
 Because she's one unnecessary garbage.
 Smarter person in the world my ass. You
 morons only say this because she is black.
 There's no way a teenager can create and
 develop all this technology in Wakanda.
 12
 Bullshit.

 AVENGE THE
 L L E N
 MARVEL STUDIOS
 APRIL 26

 Heather Hughson
 @HNHughson
 Follow
 Replying to @amazonheroicon
 So in a universe of superheroes with magic
 powers and living Norse gods, the one thing
 you find unbelievable is a smart black girl
 from a society that values smart black girls,
 and has valued them for centuries?
 9:28 PM 26 Mar 2019
 1,657 Retweets 12,912 Likes

 yunki luvr
 @sirenmyg
 Follow
 Replying to @amazonheroicon
 @THICJO0N: "so you can accept a teenage
 boy who shoots webs and swings from
 buildings, a man frozen in ice waking up and
 having super human strength, another man
 turning big and green before turning back
 into a human but not a young black girl being
 crazy smart?"
 12:39 PM 26 Mar 2019
 607 Retweets 14.469 Likes3O9
wade-wilzon:

blackqueerblog:
this is a universe where people have superpowers and there are talking trees but this person thinks having a smart teenage girl is unrealistic ok

so y’all racists be fine with peter parker having one of the highest IQ scores in the marvel universe at the age of 15 and older and making his own web fluid and web-shooters - a fluid and a mechanism that were never invented before - adn all his suit later on and being an actual no5 in the top 5 most intelligent marvel scientist, but y’all be not ok with a young black girl being just as smart if not smarter? i see.
                
            

            
            
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blackqueerblog:
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    80s, Bad, and Christmas: Chris Kohler @kobunheat 18m
 We have ET. WE HAVE ET pic.twitter.com/fIPTXgsyoo
 Expand
 4, Reply
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 Chris Kohler @kobunheat-4m
 Close up. pic.twitter.com/inSKukib24
 ATARI
 75
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 Reply Retweet FavoriteMoe
lightspeedsound:

videogamesarepurehappiness:

maqdaddio:

ask-gallows-callibrator:

vergess:

coelasquid:

derples:

raisehelia:

cavebae:

estpolis:

mrdappersden:

They did it, they fucking did it.

holyfducjk

HISTORY

holy shit!

can someone explain this to me

Thirty years ago a legendary ET game came to fruition, so awful that as the tale told, all unsold copies of it were buried in a pit in New Mexico. A documentary film crew has just unearthed the stash, proving the legend true.

I don’t think people fully grasp just how awful it was. This one game, by the sheer merit of its unmatched shittiness, destroyed the video game and console market so thoroughly that the at home video game nearly went the way of the 8-track player.
It was literally so awful that it nearly changed the entire course of technology.

how can a video game possibly be that bad

People don’t really understand why it was terrible though, and the reasons why are extremely important and relevant especially today.
The game itself is bad, yes. It was built up to be an exciting hit for kids to play at Christmas in 1982. So much in fact, that retailers bought WAY more stock then could every be sold based on the hype.
However, people at the time liked the game. It looks bad now, but the game itself was pretty on par with the times. It wound up selling 1.5 million copies. Which would be great, except Atari was expecting to sell 4-5 million.
While initial reception was positive, critics started panning the game as critics do. While it was no worse than most other games at the time, it was stil frustrating and hard to play. It could not live up to the hype that had been built and negative press built up quickly.
But what was ALSO happening was a flood of cheap imitations on the market. ET is a licensed game, and like all licenses comes at a higher markup. So if you wanted to buy a game for yourself or your kid, would you buy 1 game, or 2 for the same price?
Atari was also screwing around with how they handled their distributors. Just before the game went to public, but AFTER the game had been bought and shipped, Atari announced that they were cancelling every existing contract with distributors and signing with only a select few.
So distributors, now pissed off and with an abundance of games that were NOT selling and with prices slashed horribly to sell games that people were quickly losing interest in, retailers put their claims to return a collective 2.5-3.5 million copies back to Atari. Atari, unable to recycle the cartridges or resell them in any way, wound up burying them in the Nevada desert.


This caused the Video Game Crash of the early 80s that put a dark mark on video games until Nintendo (and in some small part other game companies) to revive later. 
 It was the perfect storm. An over-hyped overpriced game sold to an increasingly frustrated and over-saturated market with retailers scrambling to make a dime while Game Devs blame the market for poor sales.

Some say the proverbial planets are aligning again, with way too many consoles putting way too samey games on the market at way too high a cost with a strong dependence on Pre-orders and pre-order exclusives.

Wanna give the game a shot?  Internet Archives actually has a copy of it at this link:
https://archive.org/details/E.T._The_Extra-Terrestrial_1982_Atari_NTSC

this is like the dutch tulip bubble of our times

    

        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
    

    

        

            
            

                
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mrdappersden:

They did it, they fucking did it.

holyfducjk

HISTORY

holy shit!

can someone explain this to me

Thirty years ago a legendary ET game came to fruition, so awful that as the tale told, all unsold copies of it were buried in a pit in New Mexico. A documentary film crew has just unearthed the stash, proving the legend true.

I don’t think people fully grasp just how awful it was. This one game, by the sheer merit of its unmatched shittiness, destroyed the video game and console market so thoroughly that the at home video game nearly went the way of the 8-track player.
It was literally so awful that it nearly changed the entire course of technology.

how can a video game possibly be that bad

People don’t really understand why it was terrible though, and the reasons why are extremely important and relevant especially today.
The game itself is bad, yes. It was built up to be an exciting hit for kids to play at Christmas in 1982. So much in fact, that retailers bought WAY more stock then could every be sold based on the hype.
However, people at the time liked the game. It looks bad now, but the game itself was pretty on par with the times. It wound up selling 1.5 million copies. Which would be great, except Atari was expecting to sell 4-5 million.
While initial reception was positive, critics started panning the game as critics do. While it was no worse than most other games at the time, it was stil frustrating and hard to play. It could not live up to the hype that had been built and negative press built up quickly.
But what was ALSO happening was a flood of cheap imitations on the market. ET is a licensed game, and like all licenses comes at a higher markup. So if you wanted to buy a game for yourself or your kid, would you buy 1 game, or 2 for the same price?
Atari was also screwing around with how they handled their distributors. Just before the game went to public, but AFTER the game had been bought and shipped, Atari announced that they were cancelling every existing contract with distributors and signing with only a select few.
So distributors, now pissed off and with an abundance of games that were NOT selling and with prices slashed horribly to sell games that people were quickly losing interest in, retailers put their claims to return a collective 2.5-3.5 million copies back to Atari. Atari, unable to recycle the cartridges or resell them in any way, wound up burying them in the Nevada desert.


This caused the Video Game Crash of the early 80s that put a dark mark on video games until Nintendo (and in some small part other game companies) to revive later. 
 It was the perfect storm. An over-hyped overpriced game sold to an increasingly frustrated and over-saturated market with retailers scrambling to make a dime while Game Devs blame the market for poor sales.

Some say the proverbial planets are aligning again, with way too many consoles putting way too samey games on the market at way too high a cost with a strong dependence on Pre-orders and pre-order exclusives.

Wanna give the game a shot?  Internet Archives actually has a copy of it at this link:
https://archive.org/details/E.T._The_Extra-Terrestrial_1982_Atari_NTSC

this is like the dutch tulip bubble of our times

                
            

            
            
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    Animals, Beautiful, and Disney: Timeless classics
 disney shouldn't
 ruin
 DUMB0
 LIO
 JungleBook
 underrated action packed disney
 movies perfect for
 live action adaptations
 I REASuru
celticpyro:

Good point.
A lot of the problem with the movies Disney is remaking as “live action’ is that they’re not MEANT to be live action. Many of them had a distinct use of art style, talking animals, and visual elements that simply don’t look as nice in a hyperrealistic medium no matter how well you apply special effects. And a lot of elements are so fantastical that you’d need copius amounts of CGI to replicate it in ‘real’ life but you still wouldn’t get the same feel.
The digitally-rendered animals in The Lion King look awkward. Dumbo looks nightmarish with his humanlike eyes. Beauty and the Beast felt lackluster with its dull realism instead of the saturated animation. 
Now, Atlantis and Treasure Planet would work brilliantly in a realistic medium because it deals with mostly-human characters and visual effects in those movies would transition flawlessly into live action. The alien creatures of Treasure Planet, the pirate’s ships and technology would look beautiful if rendered into realism. Atlantis would work even better with an all-human cast and their technology, and it’d doubly work as a chance to cast nonwhite actors into lead roles.

    

        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
    

    

        

            
            

                
                Animals, Beautiful, and Disney: Timeless classics
 disney shouldn't
 ruin
 DUMB0
 LIO
 JungleBook
 underrated action packed disney
 movies perfect for
 live action adaptations
 I REASuru
celticpyro:

Good point.
A lot of the problem with the movies Disney is remaking as “live action’ is that they’re not MEANT to be live action. Many of them had a distinct use of art style, talking animals, and visual elements that simply don’t look as nice in a hyperrealistic medium no matter how well you apply special effects. And a lot of elements are so fantastical that you’d need copius amounts of CGI to replicate it in ‘real’ life but you still wouldn’t get the same feel.
The digitally-rendered animals in The Lion King look awkward. Dumbo looks nightmarish with his humanlike eyes. Beauty and the Beast felt lackluster with its dull realism instead of the saturated animation. 
Now, Atlantis and Treasure Planet would work brilliantly in a realistic medium because it deals with mostly-human characters and visual effects in those movies would transition flawlessly into live action. The alien creatures of Treasure Planet, the pirate’s ships and technology would look beautiful if rendered into realism. Atlantis would work even better with an all-human cast and their technology, and it’d doubly work as a chance to cast nonwhite actors into lead roles.

                
            

            
            
celticpyro:

Good point.
A lot of the problem with the movies Disney is remaking as “live action’ is that they’re not MEANT to be live actio...

            
            
        

    



        

            
        
        

            



        

            
        
        

            




    Technology, Usa, and Stealth: USA testing stealth technology to bomb more countries without being held accountable for.( Circa 1989)
    

        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
    

    

        

            
            

                
                Technology, Usa, and Stealth: USA testing stealth technology to bomb more countries without being held accountable for.( Circa 1989)
                
            

            
            
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    Being Alone, Amazon, and College: did you know?
 There's an app that pays people to go online.
 Nielsen, the organization that does TV ratings,
 now measures the popularity of websites and
 online videos. To do that, they'll pay you just to
 1.) Join the Nielsen panel at InternetPanel.org
 2.) Get the free app on your phone/computer,
 3.) Use the internet the same way you do now.
 It's that simple! Panel members receive cash
 and Amazon gift cards just to use the internet.
 nielsen
 PHOTO: INTERNETPANEL.ORG
 DID YOU KNOW?
collegehackable:
cntnd:

zarb:

You guys, I looked into it and this is legitimate. According to Wikipedia, Nielsen has been a trusted name since the 1920s, first measuring what radio stations people listened to. In the 1950s, they got into television ratings and now they’re measuring the popularity of stuff online. I can’t believe they’re gonna start paying me to watch youtube videos… I’m truly living in 3019
It took me less than 5 minutes to sign up here

GUYS… in 2019 we live in 3019

I usually scroll past these sorta posts, but I know a lot of broke college kids follow me and want someone to verify if this is real. After doing my homework, I learned that the Nielsen internet panel is undeniably real.
(Source: TV Technology)
If you’re worried about what data they collect, this is from Nielsen’s website:
TL;DR they only want to know what websites you visit, how long you spend on those sites, etc. and they NEVER collect sensitive data such as usernames, passwords, login information, bank, or credit card information.
Facebook already collects (and sells) your data. The difference is that Nielsen wants to pay you and they’re not sneaky about it. So yes, you can quite literally get paid to watch youtube videos.
Pro-Tip: to make the most money, you guys should join the panel on your computer AND your phone because you can earn more for multiple devices. Besides regular rewards, Nielsen gives away $10,000 cash each month. You could receive a thousand dollars in one month from the sweepstakes alone. If you keep Nielsen on your computer, you’ll be automatically entered into their monthly sweepstakes, so the app is a must-have on laptop or desktop. Two people win $1000 each month and four hundred people win cash prizes. Another reason to add multiple devices is that 

annually they will pay you $50 per mobile device you connect, so it pays to put Nielsen on all your devices, even that old phone in a drawer somewhere if it’ll turn on. Tablets work too, as do iPods and E-Readers.

    

        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
    

    

        

            
            

                
                Being Alone, Amazon, and College: did you know?
 There's an app that pays people to go online.
 Nielsen, the organization that does TV ratings,
 now measures the popularity of websites and
 online videos. To do that, they'll pay you just to
 1.) Join the Nielsen panel at InternetPanel.org
 2.) Get the free app on your phone/computer,
 3.) Use the internet the same way you do now.
 It's that simple! Panel members receive cash
 and Amazon gift cards just to use the internet.
 nielsen
 PHOTO: INTERNETPANEL.ORG
 DID YOU KNOW?
collegehackable:
cntnd:

zarb:

You guys, I looked into it and this is legitimate. According to Wikipedia, Nielsen has been a trusted name since the 1920s, first measuring what radio stations people listened to. In the 1950s, they got into television ratings and now they’re measuring the popularity of stuff online. I can’t believe they’re gonna start paying me to watch youtube videos… I’m truly living in 3019
It took me less than 5 minutes to sign up here

GUYS… in 2019 we live in 3019

I usually scroll past these sorta posts, but I know a lot of broke college kids follow me and want someone to verify if this is real. After doing my homework, I learned that the Nielsen internet panel is undeniably real.
(Source: TV Technology)
If you’re worried about what data they collect, this is from Nielsen’s website:
TL;DR they only want to know what websites you visit, how long you spend on those sites, etc. and they NEVER collect sensitive data such as usernames, passwords, login information, bank, or credit card information.
Facebook already collects (and sells) your data. The difference is that Nielsen wants to pay you and they’re not sneaky about it. So yes, you can quite literally get paid to watch youtube videos.
Pro-Tip: to make the most money, you guys should join the panel on your computer AND your phone because you can earn more for multiple devices. Besides regular rewards, Nielsen gives away $10,000 cash each month. You could receive a thousand dollars in one month from the sweepstakes alone. If you keep Nielsen on your computer, you’ll be automatically entered into their monthly sweepstakes, so the app is a must-have on laptop or desktop. Two people win $1000 each month and four hundred people win cash prizes. Another reason to add multiple devices is that 

annually they will pay you $50 per mobile device you connect, so it pays to put Nielsen on all your devices, even that old phone in a drawer somewhere if it’ll turn on. Tablets work too, as do iPods and E-Readers.

                
            

            
            
collegehackable:
cntnd:

zarb:

You guys, I looked into it and this is legitimate. According to Wikipedia, Nielsen has been a trusted name s...