Pentegarn on 04/02/2008 5:35 am

Real or not, it was the most brilliant work in the history of video games.

Purple Man on 04/02/2008 5:45 am

Wait...so there's no adult mod?

saturnknight on 04/02/2008 6:30 am

real or not, i found it funny and entertaining, especially since i own that blasted ET game

Roggs on 04/02/2008 7:10 am

Weirdly, my copy of EGM arrived yesterday, and they also referenced that game (with a screenshot). Total double take; I thought for a minute you guys with in some April Fool's cahoots.

Silver on 04/02/2008 8:57 am

Hah... Well, well, as long as the final version is not something like "Ghostbusters" for NES... I'm just kidding folks, I know you can do a lot better than that :P

Regards!

Angryhydralisk on 04/02/2008 9:14 am

I totally forgot about the I-Grounds thing. I must be going senile.

BoMToons on 04/02/2008 11:20 am

Wait, that was just an APRIL FOOLS JOKE!?!?

I guess the joke was on me...Rog assured me it would be the most popular game on the interweb.

:(

Drunken_Lemur408 on 04/02/2008 11:21 am

Roggs, are you talking about Lego Halo? My school gets EGM a month early, and I thought it was real, too. Until I remembered that fact. Do you remember Mushroom Kingdom Hearts? That was a good one.

Zounds on 04/02/2008 11:29 am

Ahhhh ET, the death toll of Atari. Can't help but wonder what on earth they were smokeing when they came up with THAT one.. Not to mention their making more games then Atari's. They say the company dug a hole out in the desert and burryed the excess... some day I shall find them.. What will I do with ten thousand old ET games you ask? well its simply a part in my master plan for world dominaton... first ET then carrot top.. then the world will be mine! *cough* uhh forget I just said that..

Heh, any hoo pickle man ated ET's head? Hmmm, wonder what it tasted like?

Silver on 04/02/2008 11:35 am

Hah... So Pickelman ate"d" my head?

Silver on 04/02/2008 11:35 am

Pickleman*

Zounds on 04/02/2008 11:50 am

That reminds me it was that I-Grounds gag that got me going to I-mockery, and I havn't looked back since.. well I did just now.. and now.. Hay don't look at me that way!

"Ated".. ahhh gotta love it.

Iplayedataritoday (Guest) on 04/02/2008 2:36 pm

When i found the 'enter' easter egg, i LOLed.

Great job!

Misty (Guest) on 04/02/2008 5:38 pm

I visited yesterday in hopes for a great gag and wasn't dissapointed. Best laugh of the day. Thanks man!

Nick on 04/02/2008 7:02 pm

I absolutely loved this April Fool's joke. So much better than I-Grounds.

homor on 04/02/2008 10:02 pm

MORE PITS. MUCH MORE PITS ARE NEEDED.

greenimp on 04/03/2008 12:30 am

it was hillariously bad, i never played the original ET game and now i'm glad i dident

incognit000 on 04/03/2008 6:53 am

It took me about three minutes to where all I was doing was having ET charge at Pickleman to get his heat "ated"

BakaGaijin on 04/03/2008 11:23 am

I keep falling in the damn holes! How do you get out? Is there a walkthrough on line anywhere?

Neo Valkyyria (Guest) on 04/03/2008 6:11 pm

Best laugh of the day! I wasn't expecting the sudden change to an E.T. emulator AT ALL. The Easter egg was cool too. Very entertaining, though I'm sure that in the original game E.T. never got his head "ated" XD (though it probably woulda been a lot more fun if they had done it) This site never dissapoints. Great job!

To BakaGaijin: When you fall in a hole, hold Space; you should start flying/hovering/stretching your neck for no reason/whatever you wanna call it. Hold it until you get out. Simple, huh?

mmm_braaains on 04/04/2008 7:37 pm

When I was little, I was abosolutely terrified of ET. No way in Hell I'd ever play the video game.

Nice April Fool's prank btw.

My prank was telling my mom I was pregnant.

LAWL

greenimp on 04/04/2008 11:43 pm

i'm still scared of that little freak, i used to cheer when he was close to death, my older brother cuffed the back of my head and told me to shut up of course, but it was totally worth it!

Jaimas on 04/05/2008 9:32 pm

The Original ET was a simple premise: obtain candy, find pieces of the Phone, assemble them, call for the transport, and find the LZ in the opening screen, and wait for pickup.

The stupid part was that the game was nearly impossible. You started with 9999 Health, which ticked down as you moved. By holding down the button, you engaged a speed run which would make you go really fast but burn tons of energy. If you fell in a hole, you lost energy from the fall and had to blow more energy getting yourself back up. You died at 0, but had a few extra lives due to Elliot giving you energy.

You could also collect Reese's Pieces. These could be eaten to recover energy, or given to Elliot, which gave you extra points. This is another game wherein you basically NEEDED the Manual to have an idea of what the fuck to do. I remember there was a Flower ET could heal by poking it with his extendo-neck as well, in one of the holes.

Speaking of Elliot, he was one of several NPC characters in the game. The other was a scientist who would bring ET to a lab, and the one that single-handedly rendered the entire game impossible without Save States, the FBI Agent - who stole all phone parts you had and all Reese's Pieces you had.

PROTIP: Pickleman's a modded FBI Agent Sprite.

By changing the settings, you could play on Mode 2 (no Scientist appears), or the only way the game was remotely beatable, Mode 3 (only Elliot appears).

ROG's version is actually better in just about every way, since you never run out of energy and thus it doesn't feel like the game itself is against you, holes aside.

nad (Guest) on 04/06/2008 8:28 am

i knew it had to do with april fools, but i enjoyed the game so i dont get how it was supposed to really fool me.

Jaimas on 04/06/2008 4:55 pm

The best April Fools' jokes are ones that don't hurt people and wind up being epic in awesomeness. ET Vs. Pickleman qualifies.

warioman on 04/09/2008 3:10 pm

this was the best one ever

stevetothepast (Guest) on 04/10/2008 4:35 am

I was fooled