Thirty20Eight #229: E.T., The Game That Buried Atari
The 3028: Theme Park History & Pop Culture Listory
Matt Parrish and Kevin Quigley
4.9 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 25 May 2022
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
This week, Matt and Kevin dive into pop culture lore with a look at ET, the video game that buried Atari the home gaming industry, only to be excavated some 30 years later!
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| 1:30.0 | Welcome to the 3028, a show about theme park history and pop culture history. I'm Matt Parrish. |
| 1:36.0 | And I'm Kevin Quigley. Kevin we are back again doing our pop culture thing season six. It's in the mix in the mix. |
| 1:44.0 | It's fully in the mix and I really like these explorations into pop trends. This week we're going to jump back into pop culture as I mentioned. |
| 1:52.0 | We're going to look and we've been kind of talking about this for a couple of months but we finally finished this show. |
| 1:58.0 | Yeah we kept saying the next show is going to be all about this and then we talked about like lost worlds of Epcot or Yacht Rock or whatever. |
| 2:06.0 | Yeah and we kept doing other stuff but this show is all about ET but not in the way that you might think. |
| 2:14.0 | The Katy Perry song that had Kanye West on it and not the Spielberg film but something that came out of the film that is the home game made for Atari. |
| 2:28.0 | The game that broke Atari and the video gaming world. |
| 2:33.0 | The game that never should have been and always will be. I'm going to be saying that about everything that we never come so happy. |
| 2:41.0 | It's hilarious. So okay let's before we talk about this ET game in Atari quick background you and I we're not I wouldn't say I'm a gamer. |
| 2:52.0 | I'm not sitting around with like headphones on every night like with my friends and whatever but like I've been playing video games since I was about five years old. |
| 3:01.0 | Yeah I was um I think I was three and I had Atari and I remember playing Donkey Kong also this is something that you never know about me. |
| 3:11.0 | My mom was dating this guy whose brother used to fix arcade cabinets and then he would bring them to our house to play test them for like a week to make sure they were fine. |
| 3:22.0 | Oh my lord that is so cool. |
| 3:25.0 | This is the coolest thing so that's how I got to play Cuba and the Popeye game like we had an arcade cabinet in my house. |
| 3:31.0 | I played the Smurfs game forever and I had friends very briefly when they would come over and they would play my they played Millipede and I'm like I don't like this game. |
| 3:40.0 | But yeah so we had that and then we had Atari. |
| 3:43.0 | We had the 2600 which we're going to talk about and our neighbors had the 5200 with the weird battles that you would put like plastic over and you could press all the buttons and they would do different things. |
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