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"
@brentmartin3068
5 жыл бұрын
Lol!
@hnefruizfan543thetruemaste5
5 жыл бұрын
@@brentmartin3068 **shows NBC logo**
@brentmartin3068
5 жыл бұрын
@@hnefruizfan543thetruemaste5 lol!
@dandreincredible7596
4 жыл бұрын
lmao
@TheConorsmithusa
3 жыл бұрын
Lmao 🤣
@maxeisenhardt8800
5 жыл бұрын
They put more effort and budget to this commercial than to the actual game.
@dylanmckeon6897
2 жыл бұрын
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.
@Mac14329
2 жыл бұрын
Most of the time, I'd call statements like that hyperbole. But here, I think I might have to agree with you.
@RITS0TV
Жыл бұрын
When your given 5 weeks to make a game that usually takes around 2 years sometimes that can happen
@dannyvestal299
Жыл бұрын
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
@jedijones
Жыл бұрын
@@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.
@alicyjinx8923
4 жыл бұрын
The game isnt much but this commercial melts my heart just like the movie does
@jupiter9099
7 жыл бұрын
"Just in time for Christmas" I think they mean "rushed in time for Christmas".
@KujaNiv100
6 жыл бұрын
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.
@tysonmartin3099
6 жыл бұрын
Jupiter9099 yes exactly then after that...the video game crash.
@ThomasTHEONEANDONLY
4 жыл бұрын
Literally
@sean2595
4 жыл бұрын
What a sinus supremus zero charisma...
@MyDeeroc
4 жыл бұрын
😂😂😂😂
@LukeLeonettiYouTube
4 жыл бұрын
Notice how they only showed 5 seconds of gameplay
@summersky77
4 жыл бұрын
Hey, at least they showed some gameplay. :)
@DavidMcCoul
3 жыл бұрын
Because they struggled to find literally any other gameplay. It really is that basic, and nothing much else happens!
@therepublicofwozmania
3 жыл бұрын
Yeah they’re trying to hide the actual gameplay where I somehow CANNOT GET OUT OF THE DITCH!
@StardustNovaChannel
5 жыл бұрын
Wow those are the best graphics I've ever seen. Gameplay looks amazing. I know what I'm getting for Christmas.
@alanhowitzer
5 жыл бұрын
Yeah, it looks like ET is running through a field.
@MyDeeroc
4 жыл бұрын
😂😂😂
@fezblock100
Жыл бұрын
MOM THE ATARI HUNG ITSELF!
@sujetoanonimo9874
5 жыл бұрын
I prefer coal.
@TheConorsmithusa
3 жыл бұрын
Lol
@PurooRoy
3 жыл бұрын
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.
@Dec38105
5 жыл бұрын
brilliant game , i remember being stuck in a hole all Xmas
@MyDeeroc
4 жыл бұрын
😂😂😂Lmao
@jedijones
Жыл бұрын
Wouldn't be any fun if it was easy.
@BurdenErnie1
Жыл бұрын
Are you a resident of Portland Oregon?
@undercooked_spaghettios
8 жыл бұрын
I can safely say that this is... A Nightmare Before Christmas B)
@genialkirby
5 жыл бұрын
Epilogue: Atari going bankrupt
@VictorGonzalez-xs9oc
3 ай бұрын
They didn't go bankrupt, atari is still there even though they no longer making game system after Jaguar.
@senorbolainas8439
6 жыл бұрын
So much better the commercial than the game.
@damin9913
Жыл бұрын
I remember this commercial so much it was magical
@caronstout354
3 жыл бұрын
Fun fact: the unsold game s were buried in a landfill ; they were found and exhumed a few years ago.
@wildsmiley
3 жыл бұрын
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.
@charlesmandus574
2 жыл бұрын
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
2 жыл бұрын
Agreed! It's actually pretty fun to play. Just read the manual carefully before playing and you're good to go.
@TheKingofKings2272
Жыл бұрын
@@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
Жыл бұрын
They literally blame the death of the Atari console on this game? How does someone defend that?
@roostergamerbubsy3d
Жыл бұрын
@@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.
@blacksmithsforge640
5 жыл бұрын
On 0:31 that dog tried to stop him from releasing the game!
@redpenguin5602
5 жыл бұрын
Papabear STV lol
@blacksmithsforge640
5 жыл бұрын
Leo Stern lol x2
@ThomasTHEONEANDONLY
4 жыл бұрын
He was a hero, even if he failed.
@VictorGonzalez-xs9oc
3 ай бұрын
@@ThomasTHEONEANDONLYthe dog wasn't a hero, ET Claus is just wanting to give kids a ET video game.
@ElementiaYT
3 жыл бұрын
This looks great! Can’t wait for it to come out!
@Mac14329
4 жыл бұрын
I love the rendition of the E.T. theme in this commercial.
@LegendsofSolComics
5 жыл бұрын
When you were expecting Santa Claus to come but then you get ET walking into your home
@ERRORDownBad
3 жыл бұрын
Unlike the Wii U, the game wasn't a commercial failure, it was the failure itself.
@davidtaylor9219
5 жыл бұрын
MERRY CHRISTMAS TO E.T. & EVERYONE !!! 🎅
@tridevil9846
4 жыл бұрын
The best Christmas present anyone can ask for
@chaserr3777
4 жыл бұрын
The whole picture & setting here seems like a different world; wow how we have de-evolved
@rafaelgalindo4794
4 жыл бұрын
I was born in '87, but its amazing how commercials used to be so magical, even for one of the worst games in history.
@godzillavkk
3 жыл бұрын
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.
@peterp2153
Жыл бұрын
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.
@FarmYardGaming
Жыл бұрын
@@peterp2153 God that's even worse, no wonder it took out the industry
@dannyvestal299
Жыл бұрын
The game that you could only pray that would end!🤣
@dannyvestal299
Жыл бұрын
That and Tiger Heli!🤣
@itstrayantula7082
4 жыл бұрын
The story of the game makes me cry. 😥
@dumbassdiana9367
5 жыл бұрын
and thus lead the video game crash of the 80's :)
@GodzillaFan-ok7ek
5 жыл бұрын
My Christmas is ruined for life.🔫
@rekdinhopoetico
Жыл бұрын
Comercial maravilhoso, deve ter custado muito mais do que o jogo.
@Content4free78
Жыл бұрын
i like how the kids came down to build up a screaming scene.
@teresapflaumer5717
2 жыл бұрын
Now I know why E.T. got bombed on Coors beer...he saw this video game! Ugh!
@italiashko
3 жыл бұрын
Genial, mi juego favorito!!
@oso3470
3 жыл бұрын
I remember this time. Just 5 years old. 😃
@angelfabianmesina6099
2 жыл бұрын
Happy holidays
@dz3952
2 жыл бұрын
This was the best game ever, I bought 2 of them
@billgreen3138
4 жыл бұрын
very cool tv commercial classic
@GarethNIreland
5 жыл бұрын
The visuals and score on that commercial are pretty much perfect.
@mikemayo4812
Жыл бұрын
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.
@jillhopkins4842
5 жыл бұрын
How the Atari ruined Christmas (in the year 1982)
@MyDeeroc
4 жыл бұрын
😂😂😂
@joncrall4628
2 жыл бұрын
I would have loved to have been there after 5 minutes of playing the game commercial would've went from wholesome to sam kinison
@babyshambler
2 жыл бұрын
An incredibly well made advert for, well, you know...
@xmarkmechanic1
3 жыл бұрын
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.
@DavidMcCoul
3 жыл бұрын
What I find remarkable is how much production value was put into this commercial to advertise a game completely devoid of any artistic direction.
@eddierascalhaskell4954
4 ай бұрын
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.
@jasongoodacre
4 жыл бұрын
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.
@selami32
4 жыл бұрын
"Happy Holidays Joke", from Atari :d
@Danbo22987
5 жыл бұрын
For as awful a game as this is, this commercial is so good I'm surprised it didn't sell well on this alone
@selami32
4 жыл бұрын
due to commercials expectations were too high for the game and game was a fail :d
@LJ-fm5og
4 жыл бұрын
Apparently it sold 1.5 million copies before everyone figured out how bad it was. Atari made 4 million copies in total.
@polizzi19
4 жыл бұрын
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
3 жыл бұрын
@@polizzi19 makes sense
@polizzi19
3 жыл бұрын
@@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.
@amandastill5124
Жыл бұрын
E.T DRANK BEER! That's the reason.
@brianolson6366
3 жыл бұрын
Fantastic game
@gillianday4804
5 жыл бұрын
E.T. as Santa Claus? i'll get the camera!
@billymountiii5788
3 жыл бұрын
The game that started the video game crash, until the NES came out. And buried out in a landfill
@kascnef
3 жыл бұрын
💩
@salmanojdboi
2 жыл бұрын
(Sounds of kids screaming and wailing)
@MissSallyB1
2 жыл бұрын
the video game industry: "Why do I hear boss music?"
@TheDrJ2006
2 жыл бұрын
The game would have been much better if it was released in 1983
@rtnytps5076
3 жыл бұрын
Top 10 moments recorded before disaster
@dogoyfreedy
11 ай бұрын
Mi tio casi rompe mi telefono por ver este video
@twistedaxles9126
5 жыл бұрын
*"Might as well say the end is near"*
@josealbertomorenogomez947
2 жыл бұрын
EL MEJOR JUEGO DEL MUNDO 🔥
@marlanaedwards5296
4 жыл бұрын
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.
@Lexyvil
3 ай бұрын
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.
@Channel_balls-23456
3 жыл бұрын
Yeah. This comercial this told them that the game would arrive the christmans. But there is where of the chaos of 1983 begins.
@archieames1968
2 ай бұрын
He breaks into the house, leaves the door open in a blizzard, and opens the kids presents.Seems quite rude.
@pkmnan00bis
11 ай бұрын
*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.
@F40PH-2CAT
Жыл бұрын
Got it. 10 minutes later it was in the trash and I was playing with my Hot Wheels.
@marlanaedwards5296
3 жыл бұрын
HAPPY 49TH BIRTHDAY TO HENRY THOMAS! FOREVER ELLIOTT! FOREVER MY 7 YEAR OLD CRUSH! (September 9, 2020).
@lord_seraphineOG
3 жыл бұрын
This is kids.. the videogame that destroyed the video game industry.. ...but the commercial is very cute 🙂
@ultrairrelevantnobody1862
3 жыл бұрын
"the videogame that destroyed the video game industry" Do people still believe this load of bollocks?
@thekingmrturtle
Жыл бұрын
@@ultrairrelevantnobody1862 it was the last straw.
@thegamingrailfan7905
7 жыл бұрын
*Screams and runs like a little girl*
@otaking3582
Жыл бұрын
It's just not the holidays without the smell of New Mexican soil.
@dakotagreen9199
3 жыл бұрын
ET was the best video game ever Change my mind ☕😏
@handleup888icon-ik
11 ай бұрын
They came in peace accidentally forgot me E T go home..❤
@sactecnos2708
2 ай бұрын
I feel really bad for those kids who actually got this for christmas
@dadautube
3 жыл бұрын
another perfect example of tv commercial ad way better than the product it promotes ending in marketing failure!
@cirophoenix312
5 ай бұрын
SHUT UP AND TAKE ME MONEY !!
@stevencliffordbell4518
4 жыл бұрын
Steven The CliffordBell The Konami Western Heroic
@КБР007
5 жыл бұрын
Были времена...
@kra5h0v3ride
Жыл бұрын
Have the music been written just for the commertial? Does anyone know the song title?
@craigsouthern4793
2 жыл бұрын
If only they read the game manual!!
@will_mcdermott
3 жыл бұрын
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.
@jeffmusic1479
2 жыл бұрын
Para ser una basura de juego tuvo muy buenos comerciales.
@XD-qq7oi
2 жыл бұрын
Igual una buena portada
@jedijones
Жыл бұрын
That looks like the same dog from Gremlins...Mushroom.
@Gxhbro
3 жыл бұрын
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
@tomgrimard8075
3 жыл бұрын
And instead, E.T. is brought in a desert under tons of sands
@Term271
3 жыл бұрын
Only on Atari
@gyrosplater
2 жыл бұрын
Which would u rather have for Christmas, E.T 2600 or a defective RROD Xbox 360?
@nikt32
2 жыл бұрын
I'll be honest with you but E.T.
@jeffrielly
4 жыл бұрын
death mwauthzyx's satellite dish just turned another 5 degrees!
@isuzu008
4 жыл бұрын
Now ET appears for Xfinity.
@arkdov
4 жыл бұрын
ET is actually my favorite game on the Atari 2600 (seriously).
@TheGamingSpicyNachoDoritosBag
4 жыл бұрын
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.
@mannymitchell5343
4 жыл бұрын
?
@radiowhitebase3623
2 жыл бұрын
Five weeks in the making.
@yfyuelu
4 жыл бұрын
Better than superman 64
@godzillavkk
3 жыл бұрын
Facepalm
@Mari-fn1uz
6 жыл бұрын
Was that ET our the grinch in that Santa suit
@BrianRetro
3 жыл бұрын
I think that's the same dog from the movie. Don't know his real name but in the movie he's named Harvey.
@kascnef
3 жыл бұрын
Hes long dead
@polizzi19
3 жыл бұрын
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
@godzillavkk
3 жыл бұрын
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.
@polizzi19
3 жыл бұрын
@@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.
@jonnygrimshaw9747
7 ай бұрын
Isn’t that the same dog (Harvey, that you boy?) from the film?
@Corsavette02
2 жыл бұрын
I guess ET couldnt find the trashcan
@denisvandamme9091
2 жыл бұрын
Poor Childs! 80s
@heathbarker3004
4 жыл бұрын
You think ET would have a game with better graphics.
@miya1084
3 жыл бұрын
こんなもん貰った子供は泣くわ
@GingerBeanie
6 жыл бұрын
THIS IS SO CURSED
@javierricardoarballoarroyo9251
6 жыл бұрын
Epic fail of publicity
@buckabrams4337
2 жыл бұрын
Yo I have copy of this and people keep trying to buy it of me
@JamboreeBlackberry
2 жыл бұрын
Such a cool game, I wonder what other people think about it!
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