What the actual fuck
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I think that every time I remember that it was actually released.
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Actually PaRappa was pretty fun and had some bits that my wife and I still reference.
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I managed to play E.T. just fine. It wasn’t THAT hard. Just now and then you’d raise yourself out of the hole only to fall back into it immediately, no fault of your own.
And yeah, you needed to read the instruction booklet to understand what was happening, but that wasn’t exactly a rare occurrence at the time.
I certainly played worse games ON the Atari 2600.
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Yup. I remember being confused and slightly disappointed, and the game didnt make my rotation for a long while. Eventually the disappointment faded and i was able to buckle down and finish it up. Wasnt so bad.
Im sure ET got way more play than some of the other crappy titles out there. They used to sell shrink wrapped cartridges that came in three packs, which likely sold for a fraction of a single A-list title. Now those were terrible games.
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I played so much River Raid. And way more of that stupid hide-and-seek game than I should have.
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Agreed. Larry was always a PoS, and karma was always biting him. In no way did Larry make womanizing look like a fun and rewarding endeavour. And the titilating factor was poor, which is even worse criticism since i was at peak hormone at the time.
And yes, the gameplay was actually pretty decent!
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Is this really what passes for erotica in Sweden? How do they reproduce?
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OK.
As someone who played E.T as a kid let me tell you this: Yes, it was a crappy, confusing, un-fun game. It was not intuitive, you often didn’t know what you were doing, even if you read the instructions.
But the same guy who made “E.T.” made “Raiders of the Lost Ark” which was the only Atari game my brother and I played non-stop for two days until we figured it out. And then, after we had figured out how to win, we thought, “OK, there must be some hidden rooms or something, like in ‘Adventure’, so let’s do some exploring.”
We never found anything, but it was fun trying.
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Despite having never played the games, I always mentally confuse Leisure Suit Larry with Sid the Sexist from the Viz.
Now I learn that they are more similar than I originally thought.
Has there ever been a good Superman game?
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Despite the cover art that says “Swedish erotica,” I’m fairly certain it had nothing to do with Sweden. But it does demonstrate what passed for pornography in the days before the internet.
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Perhaps they meant Sweded erotica.
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Injustice is an… acceptable game with Superman in it. Starting Supes still noooo.
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Swedish Erotica was a well known mail-order purveyor of hardcore pornography. They had slick full color catalogs that were hundreds of pages long.
Ironically they were based in the US.
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I wouldn’t call it pornography, even for that era. It was a gimmick, a novelty item. It no more served the function of pornography than jokey bachelorette party gifts serve as sex toys.
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I’m a chicken, got it? You beef jerky!
