There was once a big money hungry company called ATARI, they built a few consoles and made a few too many mistakes. For instance, ATARI is the company that made allot of gamers believe that games based on movies were bad, cash chugging sources, shipped with more potential problems than a mine field. Their most renowned example (and probably the main reason for the crash of the videogame market starting in 1983) was E.T. Steven Spielberg's great work of film making was an abominating game; rumor persists that the game was made in 5 weeks, and ATARI thought that the title just before Christmas would sell... Like a Super Mario Bros game. If I remember correctly, they shipped out 10,000,000 copies of the game when there were only 8,000,000 ATARI consoles (what were they thinking), it did not sell well, and and almost all of what few were sold got refunded. There were so many copies that ATARI had to get rid of them all, so they dumped them all into a BIG pit somewhere in New Mexico and filled the hole full of cement.
Since then, ATARI has been, sort of working things out, bad games can't hold a company forever and ATARI has now become heavily reliant on the franchises it started off well with and gave So-So treatment as those games spawned. So I have one question: Does ATARI now make purchase worthy games? I'm looking at Alone in the Dark as one of two things: Mediocre cash crop, OR well cared product because ATARI knows that they need this game to succeed and they know what the gaming industry thinks of them. I know that ATARI has shipped some pretty bad games, but there still are some good ones and I think that the company has smartened up, what do you think?
TWiSTEDmerc
I've got some good news, I'm gonna start doing some videos for Gamespot. I'm already working on a video feature hopefully to hit no later than early July and I've got more coming, here's the list:
-Top 10 funniest Gamespot videoreviews (pending title, Progress: active)
-Twisted Metal Black - the video review that should have come (pending title, Progress: in the working)
-A look back in gaming activity since 1995 (pending title, Progress: afterthought)
I hope to add more as time goes on I will also use the blog system to have another feature:
-My Top 10 Toughest Boss Battles of All Time! (official title, Progress: in the working)
Look for them soon, TWiSTEDmerc...
