The poorly pitched Shining computer game from 1982. This family party game was released for the holiday season on the Atari 2600, but failed to sell due to scenes of gratuitous violence and a nausa...
The poorly pitched Shining computer game from 1982. This family party game was released for the holiday season on the Atari 2600, but failed to sell due to scenes of gratuitous violence and a nausa inducing atmosphere.
Within half an hour of playing, children were reported to start shaking and hallucinating.
Talk of the game being re-released on the 3DO system never came to fruitition.
However, Stanley Kubrick was said to be a great fan of the title and held the high score for level 6 (the infamous axe/door speed test) for 5 years.
this footage was recovered from an old Betamax tape I purchased from a car boot sale i
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I can't believe someone spent time putting together this elaborate farce, but didn't research enough to not make claims that were IMPOSSIBLE.
I love how kids think making something look "low-res" auto-magically means "Atari". If you had said, Sega Saturn or even SegaCD, maybe... maybe even Jaguar, but 2600? Nope.
Our copy of this disappeared soon after one of our grampa's visits, but he denied taking it.
One week later, though, we found him dead in his boxers in front of his Atari 2600. Even worse, we had to pry the joystick out of his cold, dead hands while the Shining game's "welcome" screen music played in a neverending loop. Karma's a bitch.
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I love how kids think making something look "low-res" auto-magically means "Atari". If you had said, Sega Saturn or even SegaCD, maybe... maybe even Jaguar, but 2600? Nope.
One week later, though, we found him dead in his boxers in front of his Atari 2600. Even worse, we had to pry the joystick out of his cold, dead hands while the Shining game's "welcome" screen music played in a neverending loop. Karma's a bitch.