Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-24902888-20140224035931/@comment-1669199-20140617200548

Pacmansonic138 wrote: For a serious post: Both are horrid equally IMO, both are broken and rushed games, sure one of them caused a crash, but the thing is, Atari was like the only one making console games or something at the time, so Sonic 06 obviously wouldn't cause a crash. And of course people would prefer Sonic 06, E.T. is too dated in comparison. It would of been better to compare 06 to something like Spyro: Enter the Dragonfly.

"Equally"? The game had only a barely a little over month of development time, from July of 1982 to September 1st within the same year. Yes, I understand that the Atari 2600 is a much simpler system compared to the consoles Sonic 06 was released on, but a month to develop a game, come up with a concept, make it fun and debug it?" Even back in the Atari 2600 days? As others have stated both on and off this website, this was a recipe for disaster, and it was'' a disaster.

Also, in regards to your statement in which you said, "Atari was like the only one making console games or something at the time", allow me to link you to the following:


 * The Arcadia 2001, released in 1982 by Emerson Radio Corp "followed by the release of ColecoVision."


 * The APF-MP1000, "released in 1978 by APF Electronics Inc."


 * The Bally Astrocade, released in 1977 by Midway, which back then was the video game division of Bally.

The list goes on. Just look at the "Video game consoles" template at the bottom of these pages and look within the Second Generation tabs and you'll see a full list of game consoles released during this era of gaming.