It came at the time when the computer games industry were already going downhill anyway…
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ET was a game that had to live up to the expectations of the movie that was so close to our hearts. One things is certain, fantasy was the key (to overcome the crappy graphics) in playing these games. A lot of games “sucked” in some ways or disappointed in many areas, the box-art was mostly to blame (it simply was too good). And this was the case for any other computer game of any other platform of that time. Graphics were simply not good enough at that time. In many cases the boxart of the game was nothing like the game itself. But I don’t think it is really OK to write these things.īecause, when ask yourself the question, was ET really the worst game ever made? You’ll have to come to the conclusion that almost all games from that time period were making promises that could not be made true. If you ever played the game I guess that your statement “notwithstanding that dreadful E.T. Posted in classic hacks Tagged Coleco, colecovision, console, dmca Post navigationĭear Jenny, have you ever played the game ET? I haven’t but I do have an opinion about it.Ī lot of people just like to call the game a crap game to be part of the (negative) cult status it has. Here’s our report on the Coleco Chameleon prototypes, and of course it’s worth reminding retro gaming fans that when it comes to treading on the toes of game console manufacturers, Coleco has form.ĬolecoVision header image: Evan-Amos. With that level of marketing genius behind it we await their next console with interest, we’re sure it will achieve fame, of a sort. Why on earth mess with that?įor a brand owner to pursue the community who have kept it alive during decades of dormancy in this manner can hardly be described as an astute move, indeed we would have to wonder whether somewhere a Coleco executive has just said “Hold my beer”, or “Hey you guys, watch this!”, before picking up a shotgun and reserving his place in the foot gunshot ward of his local hospital.
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A brand is nothing without its community of loyal fans, we here at Hackaday know this very well because it is you, our readers, who keep us going. Your online fans are the footsoldiers of your brand they give you free marketing to a huge value, just because they like you. Instead you have heard of the ColecoVision here and now in 2017 because it has a band of enthusiasts who have kept it alive. It was one of the players, but it never achieved the cultural significance of the Atari or the Japanese machines that came after it. That you have heard of the ColecoVision is not because it was a wildly succesful device in its day, because it was not. There are early 1980s consoles and computers that you will not have heard of, because they do not have an active online community. It is unclear whether the excuse is a concern that there might be some adult content for the console in the wild or that there has been some form of dispute with an individual developer, but it is difficult to discern the logic behind widening the net to an entire community. The latest twist comes from the console fan site AtariAge, on which it is claimed that Coleco is issuing DMCA takedown notices to ColecoVision fan pages and developers of fan games for the platform. This campaign came to a halt after the Chameleon prototypes were shown to be not quite what they seemed by eagle-eyed onlookers. Initially it appeared on an all-in-one retro console, and then on an abortive attempt to crowdfund a new console, the Coleco Chameleon. The Coleco story was not over though, because in 2005 the brand was relaunched by a successor company. By 1985 it was gone, and though Coleco went on to have further success, by the end of the decade they too had faded away. Their ColecoVision console of 1982 sold well initially, but suffered badly in the video game crash of 1983. One of these also-ran products came from Coleco, a company that had started in the leather business but by the mid 1970s had diversified into handheld single-game consoles. Of course, there were other consoles during that era. The one to have was the Atari 2600, notwithstanding that dreadful E.T. If you were a child of the late 1970s or early 1980s, the chances are that your number one desire was to own a games console.
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