Comments on Bannable Offenses: Theme Week - [GM]Dave's Childhood Vol. 1

FYI,I liked that game. I'm a sick bastard.I beat ...

2008-10-15T14:31:00.000-07:00

FYI,

I liked that game. I'm a sick bastard.

I beat it several times too. It was weird as hell as far as games go. But damn....

I owned that game.Still have it, in fact. Last I c...

2008-10-14T07:34:00.000-07:00

I owned that game.

Still have it, in fact. Last I checked (several years ago), it still worked.

I actually beat it.

I know. I feel the shame. *Hangs head*

I never did get it, either. I just remember how pissed off I'd be when I'd let go of the button too soon (or by accident), fall back into a hole, and die.

No wonder you have banned your mother so many time...

2008-10-13T14:38:00.000-07:00

No wonder you have banned your mother so many times from XI

I... I never knew....I'm so sorry Dave...

2008-10-13T14:26:00.000-07:00

I... I never knew....

I'm so sorry Dave...

Believe it or not, I've read in interviews that th...

2008-10-13T14:21:00.000-07:00

Believe it or not, I've read in interviews that the guy who made E.T. is actually pretty damned proud of it, simply because he was able to make something that worked in the ludicrously short six-week timespan he was given.

TV Show: Code MonkeysChannel: G4Season: 1Episode: ...

2008-10-13T12:32:00.000-07:00

TV Show: Code Monkeys
Channel: G4
Season: 1
Episode: 2
Title: E.T.
Reason for me mentioning this: I hope to god this is the actual reason that game sucked so much. There honestly is no other legitimate explanation.

Some of you may remember a few updates ago (during...

2008-10-13T07:13:00.000-07:00

Some of you may remember a few updates ago (during Dave's Mega Man 9 post, I believe), I mentioned that I have a history of breaking games and consoles.

Anyone care to take a guess at the first game and console I ever broke? Hint: There's a reason I mention this on this particular update. Oh boy, you'll never guess now! Just stop trying.

Anyways, I've heard about the landfill thing too. 5 million copies in that pit of hell, I hear. Hell, they couldn't even GIVE the game away after a certain point. When gamers won't accept a free game, that's probably (read, almost certainly) a sign that your game sucks harder than a black hole with another black hole inside it.

I realize that makes no sense, by the way.

This is my very first post on this board, even tho...

2008-10-13T04:38:00.000-07:00

This is my very first post on this board, even though i'm reading your blog since years (i started reading it around the european ffxi release).

First of all: GREAT WORK! i really love your style of writing and your stories are hilarious. I check your site every single day for updates.

But the actual reason why i'm writing now is, because this story reminds me of the E.T. Atari Game Review by James Rolfe (a.k.a AVGN - Angry Video Game Nerd). You probably know him already, if not, check him out, you got a lot in common ;)

Greets from Switzerland

Ew... Well, it's not like they had magazines to lo...

2008-10-13T03:40:00.000-07:00

Ew... Well, it's not like they had magazines to look the game up or high tech internet or even game rental places.

First I saw and played was an atari game about a frog (maybe a chicken) trying to cross the road and ending up getting splattered by the cars.

Game that made me hate shit with a passion was Mario for NES though... I kept dying, got pissed and hit the NES so hard that it cracked the top and stopped working.

*sighs* damn you Mario... I was only 9 years old... You bastard.

I never had an atari (my uncle did, I played it on...

2008-10-13T01:27:00.000-07:00

I never had an atari (my uncle did, I played it on occation, I loved that weird penguin game) but I remember my dad's old Commodor 64 fondly.

Mmm, Frogger.

Hop. Hop. SPLAT.

Good times. Good times.

Never played an Atari, well, I wasn't even born wh...

2008-10-13T01:10:00.000-07:00

Never played an Atari, well, I wasn't even born when it came out! However, I can image E.T being aweful lol. Love the blog dave.

Friggin' <3 Atari.

2008-10-12T23:26:00.000-07:00

Friggin' <3 Atari.

thats the square from adventure the dragon acculy ...

2008-10-12T22:44:00.000-07:00

thats the square from adventure the dragon acculy looked like a dragon well kinda but i rember that to was fun times^^

i still have mine and it works haha

Poor Dave. I can't believe your mom did that. I me...

2008-10-12T22:02:00.000-07:00

Poor Dave. I can't believe your mom did that. I mean I know you two dont get along (and thats the absolute nicest way of putting it) but damn E.T., the game that single handedly killed the gaming market pre-nintendo. I bet there is little she's ever done if any to top that.

I could tell you started drinking at an early age....

2008-10-12T21:47:00.000-07:00

I could tell you started drinking at an early age.

lol

OK, totally agree about E.T. HORRIBLE!!!BUT, OMG....

2008-10-12T21:21:00.000-07:00

OK, totally agree about E.T. HORRIBLE!!!

BUT, OMG...I rocked at Q-Bert. Hell, I have a PC version of Q-Bert.

Yeah, it didn't make much sense, but it was so fun. And dare I say it...he was, (gonna sound girly, but what the hell I am female), SO DAMN CUTE!!!

Apparently though, they found a shit ton of unsold...

2008-10-12T19:36:00.000-07:00

Apparently though, they found a shit ton of unsold Virtual Boys in a Chinese (or somewhere-ese) warehouse.

Wanna know when I lost the last shred of faith I had in humanity? The day I found out that Gunpei Yokoi, the man behind Metroid, had been forced to head up the Virtual Boy project.

Fun fact: I go to college near Alamogordo, NM, wh...

2008-10-12T19:17:00.000-07:00

Fun fact: I go to college near Alamogordo, NM, where all the copies of E.T. they couldn't sell (along with other assorted pieces of Atari's less than stellar moments) got dumped in a landfill then buried under a layer of concrete.