Following two surgeries and doped-out on prescription painkillers, The Spoony One returns to face his own private Apocalypse on the Atari 2600, the argued worst game ever made, E.T. The Extraterrestrial.
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supreme beings of leisure, you hear em when the credits roll by, have a look at em at youtube. great video spoony, cant believe you did it under sedation and horrible pain.
Nice undies
THAT is sacrifice for the fans. Thanks for what you do for us.
You poor, poor man… for all the reasons shown in this film. I’d say “thank you” but it really doesn’t seem like enough. You are a true martyr… and still alive as a bonus!
Hah, I didn’t like the movie either.
Under sedation? Wow, man. That’s a little something I call dedication. And to review what called the worst video game ever is a bonus.
ET was a huge financial and sales failure for Atari, but it really wasn’t that bad of a game, at least in the context of other 2600 fare. I played it quite a bit as a kid. Better than the abysmal 2600 ports of Pacman and Donkey Kong.
you guys suck (= this vidio was fcking awsome and yeah the game was pretty good………….it was hard though )=.
End was the best part :D So sexy :D Horay for speedo and bloos spiting :D
And more seriously… I really appreciate your sacrifice :)
And still… HOT :D
holy shit I saw KotoR 2
Wow, that was great, and the fact you were under sadation! *claps*
Actually the developers put work on it… The problem is that the idea for the game started a few weeks before Christmas. And they wanted to make until then, but they didn’t had the time so that’s why this happened. Anyway, all your videos rock! And I hope that the movie review links will be fixed!
After watching this for…well alot. being entertained by all these reviews. I went onine, order’d and got this game. anything so bad is worth playing once…and i played it…once.
dude ure really sick playing this game should have let AVGN take care of this one and do another one cause its just making u less healthy
This is one of the finest video reviews i have ever seen.
dude u r brilliant i mean painfull isnt the words you would use to describe your pain holy crap ur a great game reveiwer and keep it up thx for everything!
…aw you sound like you’re in so much pain :(
can i have your babies, per chance?
Here’s how you beat the game. First you set the game select to option 3 – THIS GETS RID OF THE AGENT AND THE SCIENTIST and makes life infinitely easier.
2. collect all the pieces of the radio using the question marks.
3. Find the crosshair glyph in the forest and remember where it is.
4. Find the weird mask glyph and raise your neck.
5. Get back to the crosshairs and then sit there and wait.
You’re done.
Damn Noah is sexy with no shirt on!
I would sex him up!
I thought sissyphus was the guy who could not drink water but had a great thirst.
Do get out of the holes you hold down the float button, wait until you clear the hole, and then drop down.
This is basic.
You have no excuse for not being able to figure it out.
You either suck at games or were just jumping on the bandwagon for the sake of being edgy. E.T. is actually a very good game for the atari 2600.
Baane are you F*ING mad???
E.T. a good game? that game caused the video game crash of 83. If it weren’t for nintendo and sega the gaming industry would have been destroyed, and therefor we couldn’t play games cus no one makes them anymore, gaming would have been a forgotten thing.
It didn’t cause the crash. People didn’t see this game, proclaim it was awful and give up games entirely. Its overproduction was one of several things that lead to it, but that’s about it.
That said, the game is pretty awful.
Considering the restrictive contract with the game, which only gave the developers six weeks to finish the game (when Atari games usually needed three to four months), it isn’t that bad. Even the game’s developer, Howard Scott Warshaw, believed he made a good game for the time he was allotted.
So if we’re going to blame something for the video game crash, let’s blame Spielberg, for being a greedy bastard. He only gave them six weeks because he wanted it out by Christmas, and he had them produce six million copies, when they usually only produced around 400,000.
Yo bane you have no excuse for not being able to write, “do get out of holes”, oh snap!
its ofc fine to have your own opinion about everything, but if you cant see that this game is fucking hilariously bad, and a pain in the ass u have a serious problem. Its prolly THE game that could make yourself blow your head off.. or claw your own eyes out becouse its so bad.
as for Noah – Spoony. I can only salute him. Under the pain he’s in, he chooses to make a review about the worst game ever made. U R ZHE BEST SPOONY
Why does someone always say this game was great?
Why would you want to spend time with a shit game just to say your good at it?
As usual Spoony you are the Bees Knees.Great Review. Shit Game.
This game was so bad i couldnt even finish the review!
I see a lot of replies to my comment and a lot of borderline insults, but no real arguments.
If you can’t grasp the concept that you’re supposed to remain floating until you clear the hole before you drop down, you suck at video games. That’s the end. I am sorry.
This game also had an ending, and was in fact one of the first games to even have that! It also had an alternate ending, which is what the flower is for.
For people complaining about bad graphics: It’s the atari 2600, dudes.
One bad game cannot cause an entire industry to crash. But let’s just say it caused Atari to fail – what about the other companies it was competing with? They would stand to gain, not fail, at the elimination of a competator.
The first people I’ve seen bitchin’ about this game were idiot 12-year olds, and that should tell you all you need to know.
Spoony even underlined that during this review he
1) Wasn’t using even half of the game’s functions. For example, you can eat the candy for health. You can also dash.
2) Was in severe pain and didn’t care enough to give the game a serious review.
Love the Apocalypse Now opening. The best friggen part. My number one favorite war film.
Best Opening….EVER!!
I just had my wisdom teeth removed yesterday. My face looks like marlon brandos
the sound is not in synch with the video
son releave yourself by destroying the game
to be fair, there IS some games out there that is worst than this…
Sure, E.T was bad, but it was made by one guy, had lot of restriction due to the ATARI thingy that was pretty weak back then, and it CAN be finished, if done correctly (a guy on youtube did it)
It seems to me that Spoony felt into the E.T bashing hype with this one^^.
As for its oponent, well, dirty dancing is one of them of course (released in 2007 guys…) or the not so well known but terribly awful Big Rigs…
But IMO, the worst game ever is, by far, action 52 on the SNES (or its pathetic sequel, cheetahmen 2).Check out the wikipedia pages, some facts are hilarious! (like, a promotion of a 104000$ prize if someone beat the level 5 of one game, yet such game appeared to always crash at level 3…) I would really love to see spoony reviews this one (even with emulation, he used it here!^^) but eh :P.
Dude… just watching the intro I was in shock. I had all of my wisdom teeth extracted at once this summer and for the next few days, you could not have gotten me out of bed for ANYTHING. Even after watching the review and being fully entertained, I just can’t get over it. Kudos to you, that is some serious dedication.
Guys are pussy. Girls get their wisdom teeth out and they sleep it off and go back to life. God my boyfriend was out of composition for a damn week, what is wrong with you guys! You should have played a more trippy game, it might have been more fun, but then again, if you couldn’t finish E.T. I don’t really know what game you could.
Argh! You’re right, I can’t stop thinking about your sexy body in those blue briefs! Unless you can come to the East Coast, I’ll have to settle for less.
What can I say? I think nerdy guys are cute.
first time watching the stuff on your site, seriously…
best opening ever.
“every minute ET squats in the bush he gets stronger.” , i can’t stop laughing at that
http://www.randomterrain.com/atari-2600-memories-et-tips.html
Don’t worry Julia, you are not alone.
The thought of playing this game causes me pain, I can’t even imagine having to play it in the state you were in. You’re too good to us fans, thank you.
i feel so bad for you,just playing that…thing is bad enough.
Baane, the floating mechanic is so broken that you’ll randomly drop to the bottom of the pit anyway regardless of whether you hold the float button or not. And if you DO clear the hole you’ll sometimes drop down anyway because the collision detection is so badly conceived. So holding the float button matters little in this case, does it? And even if the floating wasn’t so broken, the number of pits you have to fall into with the small chance that it’ll contain a phone piece, then sloooooooowly climbing back up repeatedly, having scientists that take you away several screens below that do nothing besides annoy and inconvenience, and FBI agents who randomly pop up on the screen to take your things away only to repeat the slogging process all over again are hardly the marks of a “very good” game. So, judging by your lack of standards when it comes to anything, do you think that Superman 64 and AD&D: Heroes of the Lance are “solid” games, that Uwe Boll is an “above par” director, and that a pile of dog shit served on a platter made of dried cow pie and roadkill is “delectable cuisine”? Or is it that you have to pretend to enjoy widely, and deservedly, derided crap and then belittle other people who have something resembling common sense to feel as though you are “above” the hoi polloi who just don’t “get it” like you do? Take your mindless bitch-fits to a site that deserves it, like 4chan or Encyclopedia Dramatica, not a hard-working ‘Net-ertainer like Spoony. Or just swallow the stuff under the sink. Either way works!
The pillars icon makes the humans go away. If you call elliot and he shows up he is suppose to stay on the screen and keep the bad humans away. the game only allows one human on the screen. The game was frustrating, terrible and impossible with agent pedophile constantly stealing your parts. I had this game and eventually managed to finish it on ‘hard’ but it wasn’t any fun to play.
Wow. This was not worth it on you’re part. We’re not worth it. But what kind of jackass am i for complaining. Thanks for helping me NOT even consider picking this game up IF SOME1 PAYS ME. lol i could make this game in paint.
Good opening (reference to Apocalypse Now). But yea- had my wisdom teeth pulled out at once- that goodness it was springbreak- I just stayed at home and waited it out, through all the bleeding, pain…and stuff. But no E.T. Had I been forced to play the game until I won, only to replay it until my full recovery, i would have gouged my eyes out….or something.
As for Noah w/out his shirt…(or pants)……
This whole video was a little something about fan-service, wasn’t it? =D
Didn’t you know ? The FBI agent is a special agent of the Circuit City Division!
To say “I feel your pain” would detract from the obvious Hell you put yourself through to review this game for your adoring public. I can only salute your sacrifice. And applaud the Apocalypse Now reference, of course.
Awesome Apocalypse Now homage :)
That said, I found this for you:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-pzdPLfy9Y
“Oh, you’re having one of THOSE days!”
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