HUNT AND SCORE - Atari 2600 Game (Retro Fam)

Took me back to childhood.

This turned out to be an even better film than I thought it would be. The description mentioning the E.T. game is what drew me to it. I remember playing it in the mid 80's as a little kid. I had wanted an NES, but we ended up with an old Atari system instead, I believe picked up at a garage sale. I had a variety of games that I played and enjoyed, but I very much remember the E.T. game being impossible to beat or understand. I recall getting frustrated playing it, and endlessly falling into holes everywhere in the game. Even now as an adult I still play games, this time on a PS4. So the frustrations of a game from my early years still stand out to me. Watching this film explained why.The story is about the rise and fall of the Atari gaming system, and how it's sudden end was blamed on the game E.T. Much like game companies do today (I'm looking a you E.A./Electronic Arts) , Atari pushed the game designers to get a new game out in time for a holiday release, to go along side the movie it was created after. And just like other games pushed out in order to meet a quick deadline, the game was released with problems and flaws. But unlike the games of today, which play on consoles that can connect to the internet and customers can download program updates even after the games release, when the Atari games went out with glitches, they remained filled with glitches.Because of the problems with the game, sales were not nearly as high as the company anticipated and they also ended up w.