Index ⇒ General Topics ⇒ E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial for the Atari 2600

[oldman]

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http://www.neocomputer.org/projects/et/

Some guy made a fixed version of that much maligned ET game.

You can read what he has attempted to fix on the link above.
He has also posted two links ,so u can try the original version or download his new fixed version.
ET.bin (unmodified)
OR
ET_Fixed_Final.bin

You can probably use "Stella - Atari 2600 Emulator" to play it.

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http://sourceforge.net/projects/stella/
http://stella.sourceforge.net/

or try other emulators:

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https://atariage.com/2600/emulation/index.php?SystemID=2600

Games have come a long way ,since E.T.

[exoscoriae]

is it possible to shine shit?

[Scaryfun]

They found the infamous garbage dump full of those buried unsold cartridges of E.T. some months ago.

[oldman]

yeh,they spent years looking for it and i thought.. why??!

[Scaryfun]

...to prove it wasn't an urban myth. Hehe.
It was a major event in video game history in that it was part of the video game collapse of 1983 that nearly shut down the industry.

[basetta]

It took 30+ years for someone to finally fix that thing? The changes are downright scary from an asm viewpoint - and the author posts under "fun stuff" ^^