To think Atari was once at the forefront of gaming! After a slew of terrible movie tie-in games, failed consoles, and general lack of innovation, Atari fell from gaming grace. Theirs is a cautionary tale to game developers of today, namely the ones who are pushing out buggy releases and lackluster live service games with predatory monetization systems (looking at you EA, Konami and Bethesda!)
adgato75 I don’t think IIRC is a common enough abbreviation to just use it and expect it to be understood. I figured it out with context clues, but surely many won’t and would be confusing.
I remember playing that game. My grandparents bought it for their Atari for when I visited. Played it once, went back to playing Yar's Revenge and Tutankhamun after giving up.
I posted after you that without looking we all know what number one is o had to edit my comment how was it not number one it destroyed a entire industry
Falling back in the pit when you try to climb out was unforgivable. Someone tried to fix that part on the internet. I was able to beat the hard game 5x in a row a couple years ago.
@@williamcrowe2576 autotuning has been an industry standard since probably the 80s. Unless you record in your bedroom, chances are your vocals are auto tuned post production without you even knowing it.
What makes the ET game so unfair is how appalling people treated the guy that created it. It was created in five weeks so it could be sold for Christmas, then when it was returned Ataria more or less threw that guy to wolves. Can you imagine being reported in the media as the person who'd been portrayed as ruining the gaming industry?
*Haunted House* (circa 1982) was both the spookiest and most frustrating game I ever played on the *2600* .. The sudden and unexpected deaths, and that horrific loud noise it made.. it was enough to make my eight-year-old self nearly wet their pants. (Ok, ok, I admit it, a couple times I did dribble or soil myself a teeny bit sometimes...)
6:43 If you guys ARE going to believe that Atari had a "toxic work environment" thanks to the horseshit Brianna Wu spew then you lost me with this list. If you're going to talk about a true horror story when working at Atari, try talking about the "Ray Kassar" regime. THAT is true toxic work environment...
E.T. is actually one of my most favorite games on the Atari 2600. If people read the manual, they would see that E.T. is in fact very easy and playable, with a little practice.
I remember my first video game console was the Atari 2600. My now late father gave me and my older brother the system along with a big box full of games for it. This was back in the mid 80s. I was only 4 or 5 years old at the time. And I remember one of my favorite games for it was E.T. Not knowing at the time it was consider one of the worst games of all time. I also remember the Jaguar and the Lynx consoles. Since I remember those commercials for them. But I never had the actual systems. Mainly because I was very smart for my age. And knew that those systems were only going to be around a few years. Which is why both me any my older brother each had a Gameboy, the NES, and the SNES back then. Because we knew the Nintendo is going to be around for a very, very long time to come. Now the only Atari related games that I is the Puzzler World games I have for my ds and 3ds. I have a love for puzzle games.
WatchMojo should stop promoting those musicians/singers/bands, as it becomes just another ad - plus, they're achieving the opposite goal: making us NOT wanting to listen to them.
Hard agree on Rollercoaster Tycoon. 1 and 2 were good, and had fun expansions. RT3 was a mess, and it never got better. Shame. I have a partition on my desktop with XP just so I can play 1.
Did you know the words 'Atari fail' are next to the definition of E.T.? They aren't, but they should be. Also, can a game company try and recreate what Atari was trying to accomplish with E.T.? I want to experience that.
I heard someone made a version online that makes it less likely to fall back in the pit on the way out. Funnily enough the star of E.T. was in some Intellivision ads. And PItfall! became the game of 1982 selling maybe 4 million.
This really brings back memories! The E.T. abomination I was expecting, but I’d thankfully forgotten about the frustrations with that haunted house game! I guess it’s no surprise the crash of 83 and how much Nintendo became the rage a couple years later!! I was swept up in that for sure
All three of his games sold 1 million or more, which should have indicated a success (if he were at Imagic, Activision or elsewhere). But two were movie licenses that might have sold anything; who knows how many people were disappointed, and how many returned the games?
I had "ET Phone home" I spent the game walking around aimlessly, my best friend figured out that you had to pick pieces to build a phone and eventually the mother ship would come for you up. I never did figure that damn game out! I'll stick to Pac-man & Centipede. And Qix.
@Uke Krazy - You don't know anyone who can see who could have read it to you? And if you couldn't see well enough to read the manual how could you see well enough to play the game?
@@lurkerrekrul I was a kid, it never occurred to me look at the manual. I have 7% vision I can see enough in colors and shapes, i can't read small print without a magnifying glass and that makes me sea sick. I can't see details either so the objects we had to collect to build the phone in the game weren't big enough or have enough color contrast for me to see it at all.
@Uke Krazy - That sucks about your vision. I'm completely blind in my right eye (happened at birth) and nearsighted in my left eye. I can see fine with glasses though. I was about 10 when my grandfather first got the Atari 2600. I don't remember the year, but I'm pretty sure he bought it when it first came out in 1977. I always used to read the manuals for the games, even if they were simple games. I always wanted to know what options there were, any tips they might have for players, etc. I actually miss the time when games came with a printed manual that explained how to play it. :)
In reality ET was not a failure .The problem with ET was the That it was only programmed in 3 weeks at the time these games took a year to develop .So they gave it to a programmer and asked him hey could you get this done in 3 weeks .
One site said 2.7 million sold (including or not including returns?). Any game selling over 1 million seems like a success as there were less than 30 games for Atari that did it, and none for Intellivision (unless you include Poker and Blackjack). Five weeks for one programmer. Maybe if it had been a team, like having a sound and music person he could have focused on the problems and another couple weeks for some playtesters to give their feedback and make corrections? (Programmer said he had 3 days to make "Chase the Chuckwagon.") Spielberg said, Why don't you make an E.T. version of Pac-Man? I think it could have been a bicycle-chase action game. However, if you manufactured 10 million cartridges and only sold 8 million (Pac-Man), those two million carts would be at least a $2 million loss, maybe $10 million if each box with cart, manual, catalog and shipping cost $5 each.
I've beaten E.T. on the Atari 2600 countless times. I just don't get why E.T. got so much hate? I don't get that at all. Didn't anybody read the manual that came with the game cartridge? Just read the manual along with a little practice and you'll see that the game plays just fine. If you fall into a pit, you get out by rolling the directional stick to the left or right on your way to the surface, depending from which side of the pit you fell in. There is a little challenge, but the game is still very playable.
Atari was one of the causes but not the primary cause of the Crash of '83. Many other established consoles also suffered from too many poor quality games, which led to slow advancement in console designs (most companies made their money from the games and not the consoles). Atari happened to be the poster child of the industry and catches most of the flak.
*E.T. The Extra Testicle:* Just look at how aggressively those agents stalk the poor alien.. I bet they aren't even wearing any clothing underneath their trench coats. I suppose being a xenophile is at least a step up on the morality scale compared to necrophiles and pedophiles, but still... Poor E.T. is so desperate to find a working telephone, not to phone home, but to dial "911".
I'm not surprised with #1 at all. That was truly Atari's lowest point yet, and the fact that it damn near destroyed an entire industry does not help...
Pretty sure #1 was more because of 3rd-party companies using the Atari VCS/2600 as a huge dumping ground for crap and less because of Atari themselves putting it out. I recall that Atari actually tried to stop 3rd-party developers (at the time, Activision) from making games for their platform and went to court over the issue. Activision won, and while they put out a number of classic games, the ruling also opened the floodgates to other developers. So I can't really blame Atari for that one. As for ET, while the game was hard, I think the big problem was that people really needed to read the instructions instead of tossing them with the box. The same especially could be said for Raiders of the Lost Ark for the VCS/2600, since it was one of those rare 2600 games to require the use of both joysticks.
Raiders sold over 1 million, and E.T. over 2 million. But disappointment's a bitch. I didn't win the former as a kid, but only figured out how to dig from the internet. As far as I know there was nothing else to dig before the ending to practice on. But maybe kids who saw the movies were expecting action games. I can imagine a version of Raiders where you burn snakes, then fight goons guarding the plane, then chase the truck with a horse, then drive the truck. Likewise E.T. could have been a bicycle-chase game.
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Ever since E.T., Atari hasn't fully recovered. Their failure in getting with the times combined with Nintendo's dominance in the video game industry prevents them from staying afloat.
I didn't get it or Raiders, but played them in 1983 when staying with friends. I don't think I ever considered taking a bad game back to the store, and since I usually only bought from Atari, I'm not sure which one I'd have taken back. Pele's Soccer? Maybe the M-Network games I bought new since they were two-player only?
True. But WB didn't know what to do after the investor panic, so they broke it up. Atari had the console division, the computer division, an arcade division, and I don't know where AtariSoft falls in there. If they kept making fantastic arcade games then they could have used the combined company to keep selling ports.
sadly Atari had some great titles over the years, it was just how they used them in the long run that both hurt and helped them. It also didn't help that they took an approach to gaming that stayed with how they did the arcade machines that started the company. Now the guys running it don't even have that much of a standard with how most of their titles have been the last decade or more. On a side note, I had that E.T. game ... and to this day I'm not sure what it was supposed to be other then a giant bug ...
6:03 I agree on that part as to why the Atari Lynx failed, despite being a great little handheld on its own with a equally great homebrew community. Atari didn't do a good marketing push for the system, which is one of the reasons that led to its death. On the other hand, the Atari Jaguar is NOT a god-awful system as some people make it out to be. I had two during my lifetime and the controls actually feels confortable to hold, once you get used to it. My favorite titles on the Jaguar are AVP, Tempest 2000, Missile Command 3D, Super Burnout, Rayman, Ruiner Pinball, NBA Jam T.E., Iron Soldier, Brutal Sports Football and Ultra Vortek :)
I think most people hold an extreme view one way or the other on the Jaguar. The TH-cam echo chamber has definitely convinced people it was a terrible console, but I also hear some people make wild claims over it's "untapped power." My opinion, as some one that has a Jaguar and roughly 75% of the games made for it, it was roughly what you'd expect for a system costing $250 in 1993. Had the exact same hardware been released by a different company that had a real marketing budget and popular IP to bring in built in fan-bases, I think it could have been a success. I've always thought what doomed the Jaguar was not it's hardware, but the state Atari was in when they tried to launch it.
If you haven't watched it, watch Atari: Game Over. It was largely about the history of Atari, and Howard Scott Warshaw who developed Yar's Revenge and ET and culminates with the excavation of the carts from the dump.
I paid like $2.00 for E.T. in a cheapo bin at Lionel's Playworld. Took it home, played for like 20 mins and beat the game. I remember thinking to myself, "no wonder this game was so cheap." The guy that made it did a fantastic job though, considering he had like a month to do in.
Depends which game you played. If you played the hard variation then you had your work cut out for you. Same with playing the easy versions of Asteroids, Missile Command and Space Invaders. That so-and-so satellite in Asteroids gets me too often.
Atari sabotaged the rollout of that system by having nearly all the games for it also on the 2600; releasing it with the 1970s' Pong-style Super Breakout; it having the same quality as 400/800 games but not being compatible; and releasing it a few months after Pac-Man helped sell another 2 million 2600 consoles, going to 5 million by the end of 1982 or early 1983 for a total of 15 million in circulation. I never heard anyone say they weren't getting the 5200 because of the controller. Maybe they said that for Intellivision? But the joystick Atari released in 1977 was defective, broke down and was replaced by a better model in 1978. So nothing new there. If it sold, maybe they'd have released better controllers in fall 1983?
Atari may have caused the video game crash of 1983 but because of a little Japanese company I’m sure you’ve heard of we now have a multi billion dollar video game industry
So disappointed when they swallowed up Infogrames, and the then upcoming Hogs of War 2 on Wii was swiftly unhappened. The 'first' game on PS1 is a gem.
Since it wasn't the same company, they should have given it a different name to avoid the bad reputation. Of course what is said was probably true that it wasn't ready to compete at the next level.
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To think Atari was once at the forefront of gaming! After a slew of terrible movie tie-in games, failed consoles, and general lack of innovation, Atari fell from gaming grace. Theirs is a cautionary tale to game developers of today, namely the ones who are pushing out buggy releases and lackluster live service games with predatory monetization systems (looking at you EA, Konami and Bethesda!)
They created a lot of classics.... What a shame. Also you're handsome
Even the mighty can fall. At least Sega is getting better after kissing console making goodbye.
Ralph Breaks the Internet is the best Disney animated film since Mulan.
@@----5247 They should do what Rare did and compile them for a release on a modern console.
at the end of the day atari is just......
a failure
The myth was true. They found the E.T. games buried on landfill.
Yes , they did. Not a huge number , IIRC , but enough that coupled with eyewitness testimony , it was accepted to be enough evidence.
adgato75
I don’t think IIRC is a common enough abbreviation to just use it and expect it to be understood. I figured it out with context clues, but surely many won’t and would be confusing.
I live about an hour away from were they found them
Yes, there’s even a photo of it in the ‘Art of Atari’ book.
No way... really?
Don't lie, you knew ET was gonna be on this list even without looking at the thumbnail
ET is the one who did the Video Game Crash after all.
I remember playing that game. My grandparents bought it for their Atari for when I visited. Played it once, went back to playing Yar's Revenge and Tutankhamun after giving up.
I posted after you that without looking we all know what number one is o had to edit my comment how was it not number one it destroyed a entire industry
I know, right. It pretty much started their eventual downfall.
@@robertsilvermyst7325 wow
I remember being so excited about getting the new E.T. game when I was 7 and being bored with it in about an hour. Its reputation is well deserved.
I got the chance to play it at a con in Boston last year. I basically joked the whole time while playing that train wreck.
Falling back in the pit when you try to climb out was unforgivable. Someone tried to fix that part on the internet. I was able to beat the hard game 5x in a row a couple years ago.
"If you like what you're hearing"
*Skip*
This song was beyond cringeworthy
Too many "artists" are relying on autotune these days.
The only people that like what they're hearing are the artists and their immediate families
Thought I was the only one lol
@@williamcrowe2576 autotuning has been an industry standard since probably the 80s. Unless you record in your bedroom, chances are your vocals are auto tuned post production without you even knowing it.
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A “Disastatari” compliation sounds like a better name for this video.
i know, right?!
And that shall be the name of the event that nearly ruined video gaming for everybody.
I honestly didn't know that Atari is still making games. I thought that they left the gaming industry completely.
They did, but their name didn't.
Maybe they should, before they embarrass themselves more.
@@twistedgaming9185 Too late. :)
They're still scumbag as always
My mom had a Atari when she was growing up she played it non stop aww the days before Xbox and ps4
Horror Fan my dad still has his 2600
My mom just had a pouch of marbles and a kickass magnifying glass for combusting ants in the yard when she was growing up.
My dad had an intellivision.
Connor Stevens @connor Stevens totally agree
@@treborironwolfe978 I didn't even have that, I had my imagination
What makes the ET game so unfair is how appalling people treated the guy that created it.
It was created in five weeks so it could be sold for Christmas, then when it was returned Ataria more or less threw that guy to wolves.
Can you imagine being reported in the media as the person who'd been portrayed as ruining the gaming industry?
*Haunted House* (circa 1982) was both the spookiest and most frustrating game I ever played on the *2600* ..
The sudden and unexpected deaths, and that horrific loud noise it made.. it was enough to make my eight-year-old self nearly wet their pants.
(Ok, ok, I admit it, a couple times I did dribble or soil myself a teeny bit sometimes...)
This video brought back a lot of memories
6:43 If you guys ARE going to believe that Atari had a "toxic work environment" thanks to the horseshit Brianna Wu spew then you lost me with this list. If you're going to talk about a true horror story when working at Atari, try talking about the "Ray Kassar" regime. THAT is true toxic work environment...
Honestly. I like the First and Second Roller Coaster Tycoon games. Second the most, mostly with the OpenRCT.
It was because it was chaotic and fun to make crazy Bizarre stuff happen
I liked the Classic one
Great video and I enjoyed it and have a blessed day
I'm really shocked that ET wasn't at the top spot but the crash of 1983 on the list was justified!
The original Atari (Atari Corporation) is dead, but the french company Atari SA (formerly Infogrames Entertainment SA) still exists.
Atari used to be big but have fallen from grace.
*Atari vs EA*
_Two video game companies that all video gamers should be feared when they meet..._
Strider Stryker why whats up with EA
Image their games produced by LJN..... truly a trifecta of evil.
@@jacobasuncion5749 Have you been living under a rock. Here's a clue: looting.
@@twistedgaming9185 man I didn't know much about EA problem I was asking so someone can give me answer but thanks anyway
@Jack C I was jasking a question man so someone in the comments can give me an answer
E.T. is actually one of my most favorite games on the Atari 2600. If people read the manual, they would see that E.T. is in fact very easy and playable, with a little practice.
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Justin Key Anyone want to show him this list?
I saw the thumbnail and clicked!
“Atari should start shipping in March 2020”
It’s March 30th
Is that Tobey McGuire on 5:53???
I remember my first video game console was the Atari 2600. My now late father gave me and my older brother the system along with a big box full of games for it. This was back in the mid 80s. I was only 4 or 5 years old at the time. And I remember one of my favorite games for it was E.T. Not knowing at the time it was consider one of the worst games of all time. I also remember the Jaguar and the Lynx consoles. Since I remember those commercials for them. But I never had the actual systems. Mainly because I was very smart for my age. And knew that those systems were only going to be around a few years. Which is why both me any my older brother each had a Gameboy, the NES, and the SNES back then. Because we knew the Nintendo is going to be around for a very, very long time to come. Now the only Atari related games that I is the Puzzler World games I have for my ds and 3ds. I have a love for puzzle games.
WatchMojo should stop promoting those musicians/singers/bands, as it becomes just another ad - plus, they're achieving the opposite goal: making us NOT wanting to listen to them.
The brand new Atari VHS player, and it's put the videotape on the Atari VHS player and watch the greatest retro movies from the past.
Hard agree on Rollercoaster Tycoon. 1 and 2 were good, and had fun expansions. RT3 was a mess, and it never got better. Shame. I have a partition on my desktop with XP just so I can play 1.
Did you know the words 'Atari fail' are next to the definition of E.T.?
They aren't, but they should be. Also, can a game company try and recreate what Atari was trying to accomplish with E.T.? I want to experience that.
I heard someone made a version online that makes it less likely to fall back in the pit on the way out. Funnily enough the star of E.T. was in some Intellivision ads. And PItfall! became the game of 1982 selling maybe 4 million.
This really brings back memories! The E.T. abomination I was expecting, but I’d thankfully forgotten about the frustrations with that haunted house game! I guess it’s no surprise the crash of 83 and how much Nintendo became the rage a couple years later!! I was swept up in that for sure
”Lady In Wading", "Custer's Revenge" + "Beat Em & Eat Em", 1983 so-called XXX Atari2600 games by Mystique! They're hysterically terrible 😂😂😂😂😂
Numba1 Heathen tbh I believe that these led more to the video game crash rather than ET, but I understand how shitty ET was
That fracking E.T. game made me rage quite gaming for nearly two decades
E.T.'s creator:Howard Scott Warshaw: Atari's and media's scapegoat.
All three of his games sold 1 million or more, which should have indicated a success (if he were at Imagic, Activision or elsewhere). But two were movie licenses that might have sold anything; who knows how many people were disappointed, and how many returned the games?
I had "ET Phone home" I spent the game walking around aimlessly, my best friend figured out that you had to pick pieces to build a phone and eventually the mother ship would come for you up. I never did figure that damn game out!
I'll stick to Pac-man & Centipede. And Qix.
I heard a rumor that at one point, games used to come with something called a "manual" that used to tell you how to play them...
@@lurkerrekrul I'm legally blind, i couldn't read the manual. I had to figure shit our for myself.
@Uke Krazy - You don't know anyone who can see who could have read it to you?
And if you couldn't see well enough to read the manual how could you see well enough to play the game?
@@lurkerrekrul I was a kid, it never occurred to me look at the manual. I have 7% vision I can see enough in colors and shapes, i can't read small print without a magnifying glass and that makes me sea sick. I can't see details either so the objects we had to collect to build the phone in the game weren't big enough or have enough color contrast for me to see it at all.
@Uke Krazy - That sucks about your vision. I'm completely blind in my right eye (happened at birth) and nearsighted in my left eye. I can see fine with glasses though.
I was about 10 when my grandfather first got the Atari 2600. I don't remember the year, but I'm pretty sure he bought it when it first came out in 1977. I always used to read the manuals for the games, even if they were simple games. I always wanted to know what options there were, any tips they might have for players, etc. I actually miss the time when games came with a printed manual that explained how to play it. :)
Thank you WatchMojo I’ve been waiting for this video!!!
5:53 peter parker?
Atari: We'll release The VCS in March 2020
Corona: I beg to differ.
Well someone’s been watching Joshscorcher’s videos
Who? 😂😂😂
Haha funny stuff dude some of those people meeeeeessed up I love how professional this video is keep up the good work
Good comment
In reality ET was not a failure .The problem with ET was the That it was only programmed in 3 weeks at the time these games took a year to develop .So they gave it to a programmer and asked him hey could you get this done in 3 weeks .
One site said 2.7 million sold (including or not including returns?). Any game selling over 1 million seems like a success as there were less than 30 games for Atari that did it, and none for Intellivision (unless you include Poker and Blackjack).
Five weeks for one programmer. Maybe if it had been a team, like having a sound and music person he could have focused on the problems and another couple weeks for some playtesters to give their feedback and make corrections? (Programmer said he had 3 days to make "Chase the Chuckwagon.")
Spielberg said, Why don't you make an E.T. version of Pac-Man? I think it could have been a bicycle-chase action game.
However, if you manufactured 10 million cartridges and only sold 8 million (Pac-Man), those two million carts would be at least a $2 million loss, maybe $10 million if each box with cart, manual, catalog and shipping cost $5 each.
I've beaten E.T. on the Atari 2600 countless times. I just don't get why E.T. got so much hate? I don't get that at all. Didn't anybody read the manual that came with the game cartridge? Just read the manual along with a little practice and you'll see that the game plays just fine. If you fall into a pit, you get out by rolling the directional stick to the left or right on your way to the surface, depending from which side of the pit you fell in. There is a little challenge, but the game is still very playable.
One question, has anyone ever liked any song featured in "if u like what ure hearing"!!!???
Nope
Companies like EA and Activision would later follow Atari's bad example.
Atari was one of the causes but not the primary cause of the Crash of '83. Many other established consoles also suffered from too many poor quality games, which led to slow advancement in console designs (most companies made their money from the games and not the consoles). Atari happened to be the poster child of the industry and catches most of the flak.
They had 70% of the console market in 1983 (plus another 5% for the 5200), so it was theirs to save or lose.
Nintendo wanted to work with Atari, but it turns out they didn't even need Atari!
*E.T. The Extra Testicle:* Just look at how aggressively those agents stalk the poor alien.. I bet they aren't even wearing any clothing underneath their trench coats. I suppose being a xenophile is at least a step up on the morality scale compared to necrophiles and pedophiles, but still...
Poor E.T. is so desperate to find a working telephone, not to phone home, but to dial "911".
The Atari Lynx is my favorite handheld, and the Jaguar is one of my favorite consoles.
AVGN blew 450 dollars on two dead Atari CDs, which mean they wont read the disc.
Predaking Savage I hope he does the Lynx in its own video
I'm not surprised with #1 at all. That was truly Atari's lowest point yet, and the fact that it damn near destroyed an entire industry does not help...
I still have a copy of the E.T. game, which mom and dad bought in the store back in the day.
Lucky you, I wish I had a copy. E.T. is actually one of my most favorite games on the Atari 2600.
Pretty sure #1 was more because of 3rd-party companies using the Atari VCS/2600 as a huge dumping ground for crap and less because of Atari themselves putting it out. I recall that Atari actually tried to stop 3rd-party developers (at the time, Activision) from making games for their platform and went to court over the issue. Activision won, and while they put out a number of classic games, the ruling also opened the floodgates to other developers. So I can't really blame Atari for that one.
As for ET, while the game was hard, I think the big problem was that people really needed to read the instructions instead of tossing them with the box. The same especially could be said for Raiders of the Lost Ark for the VCS/2600, since it was one of those rare 2600 games to require the use of both joysticks.
Raiders sold over 1 million, and E.T. over 2 million. But disappointment's a bitch. I didn't win the former as a kid, but only figured out how to dig from the internet. As far as I know there was nothing else to dig before the ending to practice on.
But maybe kids who saw the movies were expecting action games. I can imagine a version of Raiders where you burn snakes, then fight goons guarding the plane, then chase the truck with a horse, then drive the truck. Likewise E.T. could have been a bicycle-chase game.
5:50 Totally didn’t realize that was Tobey Macguire
8:49 So still within the early 1980s range.
02:55, Benny Benassi anyone?
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1 Universal Interactive (The Incredible Hulk: Ultimate Destruction, Crash TwinSanity, Jurassic Park: Operation Genesis)
2. Acclaim Entertainment (Turok series)
The failure of E.T. is so big, that even in death, is causing havoc among gamers
And the failed of Jaguar lol
You've missed a big fail: Not releasing the f*ing Atari mirai
Ever since E.T., Atari hasn't fully recovered. Their failure in getting with the times combined with Nintendo's dominance in the video game industry prevents them from staying afloat.
Someone should just purchase Atari, and put that dead company out of its misery.
Uh, "getting with the times" and "dominating" are 2 things Nintendo has failed at since the N64 lmao.
@@ShadowMan64572 Well, Nintendo single-handedly saved the video game industry.
@@superpan218 No, they didn't. Stop spreading that misinformation around. They saved consoles in North America. Which is not gaming as a whole lol
@@superpan218 Also, this isn't the 80s, so idk why you're bringing this up now
Yes it stunk to all high heaven but everyone had E.T Atari sold a ton of them fast. Then it just stopped because word got out about how bad it was
I didn't get it or Raiders, but played them in 1983 when staying with friends. I don't think I ever considered taking a bad game back to the store, and since I usually only bought from Atari, I'm not sure which one I'd have taken back. Pele's Soccer? Maybe the M-Network games I bought new since they were two-player only?
It's worth noting that the Atari responsible for the Atari VCS mess is different from the Atari that made the 2600.
Atari only killed the home game console market in North America. The Commodore 64 was still selling strong even after 1983, and well through 1986
True. But WB didn't know what to do after the investor panic, so they broke it up. Atari had the console division, the computer division, an arcade division, and I don't know where AtariSoft falls in there. If they kept making fantastic arcade games then they could have used the combined company to keep selling ports.
sadly Atari had some great titles over the years, it was just how they used them in the long run that both hurt and helped them. It also didn't help that they took an approach to gaming that stayed with how they did the arcade machines that started the company. Now the guys running it don't even have that much of a standard with how most of their titles have been the last decade or more. On a side note, I had that E.T. game ... and to this day I'm not sure what it was supposed to be other then a giant bug ...
To be fair. Atari is a name held by different companies over the years.
I will never understand why they say E.T Is the worst game, I played the hell out of this game when I was a kid and enjoy it a lot
6:03 I agree on that part as to why the Atari Lynx failed, despite being a great little handheld on its own with a equally great homebrew community. Atari didn't do a good marketing push for the system, which is one of the reasons that led to its death. On the other hand, the Atari Jaguar is NOT a god-awful system as some people make it out to be. I had two during my lifetime and the controls actually feels confortable to hold, once you get used to it. My favorite titles on the Jaguar are AVP, Tempest 2000, Missile Command 3D, Super Burnout, Rayman, Ruiner Pinball, NBA Jam T.E., Iron Soldier, Brutal Sports Football and Ultra Vortek :)
I think most people hold an extreme view one way or the other on the Jaguar. The TH-cam echo chamber has definitely convinced people it was a terrible console, but I also hear some people make wild claims over it's "untapped power." My opinion, as some one that has a Jaguar and roughly 75% of the games made for it, it was roughly what you'd expect for a system costing $250 in 1993. Had the exact same hardware been released by a different company that had a real marketing budget and popular IP to bring in built in fan-bases, I think it could have been a success. I've always thought what doomed the Jaguar was not it's hardware, but the state Atari was in when they tried to launch it.
I don't remember the ATARI Jaguar.
We're just gonna ignore Driv3r wasn't a thing?
I was so surprised when the myth of them burying the games in the landfill was true, then laughed afterwards.
If you haven't watched it, watch Atari: Game Over. It was largely about the history of Atari, and Howard Scott Warshaw who developed Yar's Revenge and ET and culminates with the excavation of the carts from the dump.
Makes me wonder if there were other dumps that we don't know about?
random suggestion: top 10 hell's kitchen challenges
The 1983 crash is the biggest fail in gaming history. This video should deadass be retitled Top 9 Atari Fails that aren't the Crash of 1983.
I paid like $2.00 for E.T. in a cheapo bin at Lionel's Playworld. Took it home, played for like 20 mins and beat the game. I remember thinking to myself, "no wonder this game was so cheap."
The guy that made it did a fantastic job though, considering he had like a month to do in.
I suppose if you played the kiddie mode with no one stealing your stuff or taking you to the lab it would be easy.
9, 8, 7, and 6. There are several franchises waiting for a return to the forefront and Atari has no idea how to reboot them!
the 2600 homebrews are amazing
I actually loved the ET game once I read the whole instruction book. That was short-lived because it got really easy and boring after that.
Depends which game you played. If you played the hard variation then you had your work cut out for you. Same with playing the easy versions of Asteroids, Missile Command and Space Invaders. That so-and-so satellite in Asteroids gets me too often.
And I thought Uwe Boll was the worst thing that happened to "Alone in the Dark".
*I heard Atari is so bad nowadays, not even EA will touch them....*
I remember when the jaguar came out and boy did it tank
Actually atari was the one who started the whole mini version of old consoles with the atari flashback
It's not as huge as those fails but, BulletWitch just returned to my head when talking about Atari fails
You forgot the 5200, and it's notorious analog joystick (and lack of original games).
Atari sabotaged the rollout of that system by having nearly all the games for it also on the 2600; releasing it with the 1970s' Pong-style Super Breakout; it having the same quality as 400/800 games but not being compatible; and releasing it a few months after Pac-Man helped sell another 2 million 2600 consoles, going to 5 million by the end of 1982 or early 1983 for a total of 15 million in circulation.
I never heard anyone say they weren't getting the 5200 because of the controller. Maybe they said that for Intellivision? But the joystick Atari released in 1977 was defective, broke down and was replaced by a better model in 1978. So nothing new there. If it sold, maybe they'd have released better controllers in fall 1983?
*The VCS*
Is that Tobey Maguire playing the Atari Lynx on the toilet?
Do Blizzard next.
Quite the rollercoaster tycoon park name they've got going on there
Atari may have caused the video game crash of 1983 but because of a little Japanese company I’m sure you’ve heard of we now have a multi billion dollar video game industry
There's some Atari things that never failed like the Dragon Ball Z video games from Atari.
I loved my Atari Lynx. Put hundreds of hours playing it. Was a good system - just needed better games.
So disappointed when they swallowed up Infogrames, and the then upcoming Hogs of War 2 on Wii was swiftly unhappened. The 'first' game on PS1 is a gem.
4:07: weird i had a PS1 version of asteroid around 2001-2002
I still have a working Atari. With many games including E.T., lol.
Rumors abound that the bad PAC-Man port and ET were basically rush jobs done by a single programmer. Ouch.
Please do a top 10 sega fails!
I think I remember seeing Atari Jaguar at Toys R Us or something
Since it wasn't the same company, they should have given it a different name to avoid the bad reputation. Of course what is said was probably true that it wasn't ready to compete at the next level.
*The True #1 Atari Fails: Atari Itself!!*
No There Was The Atari Flashback In 2002 The Lasted Being The Atari Flashback 10 In 2019
Do top 10 Adam Sandler movies again
i hope i aint the only one but i actually liked the 2008 alone in the dark while the illumination one is really bad
The infamous ET video game
Makes sense that E.T. is here
I never grew up with the 2600, but I like the graphics. I like retro aesthetics.
0:39 I don't. I never do