Little known fact: On Christmas Eve 1982, Santa Claus ran out of coal for all the naughty children of the world, so he gave them all E.T. for the Atari 2600 instead. "The More You Know"
It took 6 weeks with only one guy. Question: here a company wish happy holidays to their customers; did this happen often in the US? Does this happen still nowadays? Because not at all in France, now and yesterday.
Time Warner I think is responsible for the 1983 crash of the video game industry. They had poor decision making across the board when it came to their asset Atari.
You aint bullcrappin there! This game was soo boring. I remember millions of them ended up at a trash dump somewhere in the U.S. Was cheaper just to scrap them than to continue being "peg" warmers...smh..suks
@@dannyvestal299 They had to declare them as a loss to get a tax writeoff. There's no point in keeping them after that because they cannot legally sell them once they're declared as a loss. They were probably able to get more money for them that way then discounting the price because they couldn't have been sold for a high enough price to exceed the amount of the tax writeoff.
Agreed. It's not a great game but I say it is a good game. At least it does not deserve the bum rap it gets. The developers were rushed so I think they did fairly well for the short time they had. The wells you fall down were a pain in the butt but then again, it was a challenge in the game.
@@roostergamerbubsy3d 😂😂😂😂 y’all gotta be joking. What do you do in this game? What’s going on? Your just walking around hoping something happens. This game is a joke. Who cares if the developers were rushed. If that were the case why put trash out to begin with? You guys have awful excuses
@@TheKingofKings2272 I am not joking. Just read the manual and you'll understand. If you want me to give you a complicated rundown on how to play ET, I can do this.
The dicks at Atari only gave the programmer 6 weeks to make this video game. The fact that he made an actual playable game in that time is amazing. Atari destroyed themselves with poor management.
I owned an Atari 800 then which wasn't affected by the video game crash because it was technically a computer and the graphics were superior. They looked very close to the arcade.
That's just nostalgia. When the kids of today grow up, they'll look back and think this current time was magical. I saw the 90's as this, because that was the decade of my childhood. But I do hope adults can understand that there were bad things in the times of their childhood. But when you're a kid, you don't need to know or worry about the bad stuff. The grownups took care of that.
Yeah but E.T. was intended to be a huge release for Atari. Remember, E.T. at the time had just passed the original Star Wars film to become the highest grossing film in history. They were hoping to move serious units.
It actually sold ridiculously well.. Probably more than any other Atari game. Problem was the majority of the sales were refunded bc of how bad it was.
@@Danbo22987 There's a really good documentary about the whole Atari/ET saga that is on or was on Netflix. If I find the name I will comment it here for you, but pretty sure it's an easy Google find. Is about an hour long and really worth watching. It's about the game, the supposed landfill where thousands of ET games are buried, etc.
*More You Know* - When programmer Howard Scott Warshaw showed the game concept to Steven Spielberg he was not impressed and asked if they could make an arcade-style game similar to Pac-Man. Warshaw rebuffed Spielberg because he was not a game developer and continued with the original pitch. *More You Know 2* - Atari ET was one of the most expensive video games ever made. Warshaw was paid $200k, an all expenses paid vacation to Hawaii, and Travel/Lodging costs to program the game in 5 weeks. Most of the budget was spent on Marketing like this commercial.
Heck yes I had ET. Santa brought it for me. My brother and I tried to play it over and over. Mom let us choose two games after school. ET was never one of them. Oh i remember the toy racks were sold out at Toys r Us. We got it at Meijer Thrifty Acres. My brother probably traded ET at MSU for a doobie.
I honestly agree that this game is a good game. I am actually right now still in the process of memorizing all the spots for certain Icons in the game.
Guys E.T. isnt a bad video game and i have proof. Unlike all Atari arcade ports where you know what your doing you have yo read the instruction manual wich teaches kids to read. The game also functions more than 1 screen there are various scenes in the game wich makes it a very cool and recomended Atari 2600 game
Did he really have a home in this game? I remember my ex & I had it and I never seen much happening except going from room to room caught in a loop, lol.
Probably because it brings me back to being a kid, (almost 38 years old now), or seeing that TV that I think almost all of our families owned at one point, the whole sound and setup of this commercial is so nostalgic that its kind of depressing to see what we have now. Sure the technology is 20000x enhanced and improved, commercials, video games, etc are obviously better, but it just seemed like we were living in such a better time, that I wish my kids, who were my age then, could have experienced it. ... On another note, the game was pretty horrible lol
That's because it was a simpler time for you, because you were a kid back then. I look back at my childhood in the 90's and find good memories. But now I know that the 90's had problem of their own, all decades do. But I didn't need to worry or know about them, the grown ups took care of the bad stuff. And the grown ups of the 80's took care of all the bad stuff there as well.
@@godzillavkk Great point, and way way simpler times lol. I remember waiting all day/night to catch these types of commercials on TV. Nowadays you can just go on the internet and find it in minutes, which is a great thing to have, but that excitement of waiting all night and hopefully catching a commercial like this, was a feeling you couldn't explain to kids now. Your right though, simpler times. Plus the dog in this commercial is a pretty awesome dog.
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Little known fact:
On Christmas Eve 1982, Santa Claus ran out of coal for all the naughty children of the world, so he gave them all E.T. for the Atari 2600 instead.
"The More You Know"
Lol!
@@brentmartin3068 **shows NBC logo**
@@hnefruizfan543thetruemaste5 lol!
lmao
Lmao 🤣
The game isnt much but this commercial melts my heart just like the movie does
"Just in time for Christmas"
I think they mean "rushed in time for Christmas".
It took 6 weeks with only one guy.
Question: here a company wish happy holidays to their customers; did this happen often in the US? Does this happen still nowadays? Because not at all in France, now and yesterday.
Jupiter9099 yes exactly then after that...the video game crash.
Literally
What a sinus supremus zero charisma...
😂😂😂😂
They put more effort and budget to this commercial than to the actual game.
Time Warner I think is responsible for the 1983 crash of the video game industry. They had poor decision making across the board when it came to their asset Atari.
Most of the time, I'd call statements like that hyperbole. But here, I think I might have to agree with you.
When your given 5 weeks to make a game that usually takes around 2 years sometimes that can happen
You aint bullcrappin there! This game was soo boring. I remember millions of them ended up at a trash dump somewhere in the U.S. Was cheaper just to scrap them than to continue being "peg" warmers...smh..suks
@@dannyvestal299 They had to declare them as a loss to get a tax writeoff. There's no point in keeping them after that because they cannot legally sell them once they're declared as a loss. They were probably able to get more money for them that way then discounting the price because they couldn't have been sold for a high enough price to exceed the amount of the tax writeoff.
Wow those are the best graphics I've ever seen. Gameplay looks amazing. I know what I'm getting for Christmas.
Yeah, it looks like ET is running through a field.
😂😂😂
MOM THE ATARI HUNG ITSELF!
Notice how they only showed 5 seconds of gameplay
Hey, at least they showed some gameplay. :)
Because they struggled to find literally any other gameplay. It really is that basic, and nothing much else happens!
Yeah they’re trying to hide the actual gameplay where I somehow CANNOT GET OUT OF THE DITCH!
So much better the commercial than the game.
I prefer coal.
Lol
At least you can sell it and earn money. It's not like it's harder to find. You need to dig up the ground to find them both.
I can safely say that this is... A Nightmare Before Christmas B)
brilliant game , i remember being stuck in a hole all Xmas
😂😂😂Lmao
Wouldn't be any fun if it was easy.
Are you a resident of Portland Oregon?
I remember this commercial so much it was magical
Epilogue:
Atari going bankrupt
They didn't go bankrupt, atari is still there even though they no longer making game system after Jaguar.
This looks great! Can’t wait for it to come out!
I love the rendition of the E.T. theme in this commercial.
On 0:31 that dog tried to stop him from releasing the game!
Papabear STV lol
Leo Stern lol x2
He was a hero, even if he failed.
@@ThomasTHEONEANDONLYthe dog wasn't a hero, ET Claus is just wanting to give kids a ET video game.
Fun fact: the unsold game s were buried in a landfill ; they were found and exhumed a few years ago.
Underrated game. It’s no A+ territory like Yars’ Revenge (also by HSW), Missile Command or Kaboom!, but it doesn’t belong on the garbage heap either.
Agreed. It's not a great game but I say it is a good game. At least it does not deserve the bum rap it gets. The developers were rushed so I think they did fairly well for the short time they had. The wells you fall down were a pain in the butt but then again, it was a challenge in the game.
Agreed! It's actually pretty fun to play. Just read the manual carefully before playing and you're good to go.
@@roostergamerbubsy3d 😂😂😂😂 y’all gotta be joking. What do you do in this game? What’s going on? Your just walking around hoping something happens. This game is a joke. Who cares if the developers were rushed. If that were the case why put trash out to begin with? You guys have awful excuses
They literally blame the death of the Atari console on this game? How does someone defend that?
@@TheKingofKings2272 I am not joking. Just read the manual and you'll understand. If you want me to give you a complicated rundown on how to play ET, I can do this.
MERRY CHRISTMAS TO E.T. & EVERYONE !!! 🎅
Ahora con lo de Concord, te perdono.
The best Christmas present anyone can ask for
The whole picture & setting here seems like a different world; wow how we have de-evolved
Comercial maravilhoso, deve ter custado muito mais do que o jogo.
The dicks at Atari only gave the programmer 6 weeks to make this video game. The fact that he made an actual playable game in that time is amazing. Atari destroyed themselves with poor management.
The story of the game makes me cry. 😥
The visuals and score on that commercial are pretty much perfect.
It's so good they made a movie about it
And it's nowhere as good
When you were expecting Santa Claus to come but then you get ET walking into your home
Unlike the Wii U, the game wasn't a commercial failure, it was the failure itself.
I remember this time. Just 5 years old. 😃
I owned an Atari 800 then which wasn't affected by the video game crash because it was technically a computer and the graphics were superior. They looked very close to the arcade.
I was born in '87, but its amazing how commercials used to be so magical, even for one of the worst games in history.
That's just nostalgia. When the kids of today grow up, they'll look back and think this current time was magical. I saw the 90's as this, because that was the decade of my childhood. But I do hope adults can understand that there were bad things in the times of their childhood. But when you're a kid, you don't need to know or worry about the bad stuff. The grownups took care of that.
Yeah but E.T. was intended to be a huge release for Atari. Remember, E.T. at the time had just passed the original Star Wars film to become the highest grossing film in history. They were hoping to move serious units.
@@peterp2153 God that's even worse, no wonder it took out the industry
This was the best game ever, I bought 2 of them
The game that you could only pray that would end!🤣
That and Tiger Heli!🤣
What I find remarkable is how much production value was put into this commercial to advertise a game completely devoid of any artistic direction.
Only on Atari
Genial, mi juego favorito!!
For as awful a game as this is, this commercial is so good I'm surprised it didn't sell well on this alone
due to commercials expectations were too high for the game and game was a fail :d
Apparently it sold 1.5 million copies before everyone figured out how bad it was. Atari made 4 million copies in total.
It actually sold ridiculously well.. Probably more than any other Atari game. Problem was the majority of the sales were refunded bc of how bad it was.
@@polizzi19 makes sense
@@Danbo22987 There's a really good documentary about the whole Atari/ET saga that is on or was on Netflix. If I find the name I will comment it here for you, but pretty sure it's an easy Google find. Is about an hour long and really worth watching. It's about the game, the supposed landfill where thousands of ET games are buried, etc.
Now I know why E.T. got bombed on Coors beer...he saw this video game! Ugh!
Happy holidays
Para ser una basura de juego tuvo muy buenos comerciales.
Igual una buena portada
An incredibly well made advert for, well, you know...
very cool tv commercial classic
*More You Know* - When programmer Howard Scott Warshaw showed the game concept to Steven Spielberg he was not impressed and asked if they could make an arcade-style game similar to Pac-Man. Warshaw rebuffed Spielberg because he was not a game developer and continued with the original pitch.
*More You Know 2* - Atari ET was one of the most expensive video games ever made. Warshaw was paid $200k, an all expenses paid vacation to Hawaii, and Travel/Lodging costs to program the game in 5 weeks. Most of the budget was spent on Marketing like this commercial.
Yo I have copy of this and people keep trying to buy it of me
My Christmas is ruined for life.🔫
Mommy, can I bury this game in an Arizona Desert?
I would have loved to have been there after 5 minutes of playing the game
commercial would've went from wholesome to sam kinison
Heck yes I had ET. Santa brought it for me. My brother and I tried to play it over and over. Mom let us choose two games after school. ET was never one of them. Oh i remember the toy racks were sold out at Toys r Us. We got it at Meijer Thrifty Acres. My brother probably traded ET at MSU for a doobie.
E.T DRANK BEER! That's the reason.
Isn’t that the same dog (Harvey, that you boy?) from the film?
Mi tio casi rompe mi telefono por ver este video
The game would have been much better if it was released in 1983
It's just not the holidays without the smell of New Mexican soil.
Have the music been written just for the commertial? Does anyone know the song title?
SHUT UP AND TAKE ME MONEY !!
"Happy Holidays Joke",
from Atari :d
The extended version of this commercial has E.T. destroying the game and the Atari system in anger aftet falling in that hole for the 50th time.
HAPPY 49TH BIRTHDAY TO HENRY THOMAS! FOREVER ELLIOTT! FOREVER MY 7 YEAR OLD CRUSH! (September 9, 2020).
the video game industry: "Why do I hear boss music?"
I think that's the same dog from the movie. Don't know his real name but in the movie he's named Harvey.
Hes long dead
Got it. 10 minutes later it was in the trash and I was playing with my Hot Wheels.
The game that started the video game crash, until the NES came out. And buried out in a landfill
💩
Top 10 moments recorded before disaster
He breaks into the house, leaves the door open in a blizzard, and opens the kids presents.Seems quite rude.
They came in peace accidentally forgot me E T go home..❤
Where is the ray-tracing?
How the Atari ruined Christmas (in the year 1982)
😂😂😂
E.T. as Santa Claus?
i'll get the camera!
If only they read the game manual!!
Which would u rather have for Christmas, E.T 2600 or a defective RROD Xbox 360?
I'll be honest with you but E.T.
(Sounds of kids screaming and wailing)
ET is actually my favorite game on the Atari 2600 (seriously).
I honestly agree that this game is a good game. I am actually right now still in the process of memorizing all the spots for certain Icons in the game.
?
Fantastic game
another perfect example of tv commercial ad way better than the product it promotes ending in marketing failure!
Guys E.T. isnt a bad video game and i have proof. Unlike all Atari arcade ports where you know what your doing you have yo read the instruction manual wich teaches kids to read. The game also functions more than 1 screen there are various scenes in the game wich makes it a very cool and recomended Atari 2600 game
My dad bought this game along with other games when I was little. Hey! Wait a minute. How they didn't include Elliott in this commercial.
No wonder quality assurance is important. This game is what caused the game market crash, and Nintendo releasing the NES to the west is what saved it.
ET was the best video game ever
Change my mind ☕😏
Five weeks in the making.
This is kids.. the videogame that destroyed the video game industry..
...but the commercial is very cute 🙂
"the videogame that destroyed the video game industry"
Do people still believe this load of bollocks?
@@ultrairrelevantnobody1862 it was the last straw.
EL MEJOR JUEGO DEL MUNDO 🔥
I feel really bad for those kids who actually got this for christmas
Everyone thinks ET is bad because of the gameplay and not because of cocky business men making a trillion copies and expecting to sell all of them.
Did he really have a home in this game? I remember my ex & I had it and I never seen much happening except going from room to room caught in a loop, lol.
*"Might as well say the end is near"*
Good movie but bad game
*Screams and runs like a little girl*
Such a cool game, I wonder what other people think about it!
Was that ET our the grinch in that Santa suit
Poor Childs! 80s
And instead, E.T. is brought in a desert under tons of sands
Probably because it brings me back to being a kid, (almost 38 years old now), or seeing that TV that I think almost all of our families owned at one point, the whole sound and setup of this commercial is so nostalgic that its kind of depressing to see what we have now. Sure the technology is 20000x enhanced and improved, commercials, video games, etc are obviously better, but it just seemed like we were living in such a better time, that I wish my kids, who were my age then, could have experienced it. ... On another note, the game was pretty horrible lol
That's because it was a simpler time for you, because you were a kid back then. I look back at my childhood in the 90's and find good memories. But now I know that the 90's had problem of their own, all decades do. But I didn't need to worry or know about them, the grown ups took care of the bad stuff. And the grown ups of the 80's took care of all the bad stuff there as well.
@@godzillavkk Great point, and way way simpler times lol. I remember waiting all day/night to catch these types of commercials on TV. Nowadays you can just go on the internet and find it in minutes, which is a great thing to have, but that excitement of waiting all night and hopefully catching a commercial like this, was a feeling you couldn't explain to kids now. Your right though, simpler times. Plus the dog in this commercial is a pretty awesome dog.
Where's my switch port at
That looks like the same dog from Gremlins...Mushroom.
Steven The CliffordBell The Konami Western Heroic
You think ET would have a game with better graphics.
Now ET appears for Xfinity.
Better than superman 64
Facepalm
death mwauthzyx's satellite dish just turned another 5 degrees!
I guess ET couldnt find the trashcan