Name: 創造史上最糟糕的電子遊戲 (Creating the Worst Video Game of All Time)
Uploaded: 2021-03-17T21:01:20.000Z
Duration: 3 min 48 s

程度副詞

let's just put it on the table, here, okay?

我就開門見山，直說了，好嗎？

基礎被動語態

E.T. is frequently cited as one of the worst video games in history.

《E.T.》 在是大家公認有史以來最爛的遊戲。

I got to read a magazine that said that my game

我甚至看到一本雜誌說我這款遊戲爛到

was single-handedly responsible for the crash of the video game industry in the early 80s.

拖垮了八零年代早期的電玩產業。

They think I'm very sensitive about it, you know,

他們覺得我對這件事很敏感，說法諸如：

"Oh my God, you did the worst game of all time, you know.

「天啊，你製作了史上最爛的遊戲！

He was a video game programmer for Atari in the early 80s.

在八零年代早期擔任雅達利公司的遊戲程式設計師。

He made some of the most beloved games for the Atari 2600.

他為雅達利 2600 遊戲機製作了許多令人喜愛的遊戲。

[Howard] I made Yars' Revenge, then I followed that with

[Howard] 我設計了《亞爾的復仇》，緊接著是

very successful games, both million sellers.

I truly believed that everything I touched, hopefully, was gonna

turn to gold because I was gonna put everything I had into it.

就能點石成金，因為我總是投注所有心力。

[Narrator] One fateful day, Howard received a call from the

[旁白] 某個歷史性的一天，Howard 接到一通電話，

CEO of Atari, asking him if he wanted to take on their

是雅達利公司執行長打來的，問他願不願意承接

highest profile game ever, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial.

公司史上規模最龐大的遊戲《E.T. 外星人》。

[Howard] And I said, "We definitely can do that."

[Howard] 於是我回答：「我們絕對沒問題！」

[Narrator] But, there was one major caveat.

[旁白] 但有一個重要的限制條款。

[Howard] It had to be something that related to the movie,

[Howard] 這款遊戲必須呼應電影情節，

當時我只有五周的時間可以設計遊戲。

《E.T. 》遊戲的原理是基本的解謎遊戲，

with some challenges that you run around to solve,

and if I redistribute the pieces among enough different,

random places, it makes a fresh challenge each time around and

[Narrator] When it was released, E.T. was an immediate

But a few months later, things started to turn.

[Howard] Retailers are starting to find that the game is not

[Howard] 遊戲零售商發現這款遊戲的銷量

moving, it's coming back, a lot of people are

[Narrator] Because of the poor planning and tight production

這款遊戲在設計上的重大缺陷，

[Howard] There are too many times where you make a move,

you do something, and suddenly you wind up somewhere else.

或做了某件事，就瞬移到其他地方，

所以玩家會突然移動到另一個地方，

and there's too many places in E.T. where the user

而在《E.T.》遊戲中又有太多場景，導致玩家

is disoriented, and that's a sin of which I am guilty,

[Howard] And in the next couple of months,

Atari went from 10,000 employees to 2,000 employees.

雅達利公司的員工從一萬名裁至只剩兩千名。

Howard left the gaming industry for good.

Howard 為了大局著想，離開了遊戲產業。

He didn't think much about E.T. until nearly a decade later.

他將近十年內都不再回想關於《E.T.》的事情。

people started coming out with what a bad game E.T. was.

大家又開始討論《E.T.》這款遊戲有多爛。

I was just kinda surprised anybody was actually even talking about it.

我其實蠻驚訝大眾甚至還願意討論這件事。

Good afternoon, some of those E.T. Atari games

午安，最近雅達利的《E.T.》遊戲

unearthed at a New Mexico landfill are now up for sale.

在新墨西哥州的垃圾掩埋場被尋獲，並重新上架販賣。

Beaten up cartridges on eBay are going for hundreds of dollars a piece.

這款遊戲在 eBay 上價格竟然高漲至一片幾百元美金。

Where fans could choose what game they wanted to see you

即使過了三十年前，但這個奇怪的作品，

that I did so long ago in just five weeks...

這個我多年前用五周敢出來的作品，

it's still generating excitement, enthusiasm.

I get emotional just talking about it now.

Because I just felt I was at the center of something

因為我覺得我曾是某個東西的核心人物，

So when people ask me, you know, "Was E.T. a failure?"

所以當有人問我：「《E.T.》是一款失敗的作品嗎？」

but it'll never, it'll never be a failure to me.

但它在我心中絕對不是一個失敗的作品。

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