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That's a very old-school gaming style. Every game I played on my Atari 2600 was like that. You never win, you just play until you lose. I used to wonder about the possible mass side effects of this - were we subtly conditioning people to accept being losers?
the reason they were like this is that arcade machines were the progenitors of video games and the point was to keep people pumping quarters into them.
And if you were on the scoreboard you'd be pumping more than quarters!
I believe it teaches persistence, resilience, strength under fire, and humility. I love Atari.
Adventure and ET both had endings.
Does a landfill really count as an ending?
Hey - you can find them pretty cheap at Vintage Stock too!
I don’t get the reputation. It’s not the greatest thing to grace the Atari, but it’s not really bad. It’s not as bad as say, the Atari Pac-Man port. Just a kind of mid-tier game.