Video games

[moonwise]

When I was a kid, I had an Atari. I didn't have too many games for it, but my parents would get me a new game as a gift from time to time. It seems that they had a knack for picking some winners. Not only did I have a copy of E. T., which is widely considered one of the worst and most disastrous games ever made, but I also had a copy of Journey Escape, which was featured in this Mental Floss list of the 10 Most Bizarre Games Ever Made. As I had no idea who the band Journey was at the time I got the cart, and the gameplay was completely mystifying, this was not one of my favorites.

All I can say is that the games in question must have been on sale.

Comments

[arafel.livejournal.com]

The gameplay for E.T. wasN't bad for an Atari game - of the two games I mention, Journey Escape was definitely worse - but it seems that the excessive hype doomed it to failure.

I could never figure out what the goal was in Pitfall. It seemed that you just ran out of time after a while.