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THE WORST GAME EVER
In the early 1980s, a company called Atari controlled 80% of the video game market. It was
the king of the game industry, and Howard Warshaw had been the company’s top game
designer for quite some time. In 1982, Steven Spielberg chose him to make a game based
on the film Raiders of the Lost Ark, which was one of the first video game adaptations of
a movie. As the game was a big hit, the film director asked Warshaw to work on another one,
based on his next film, E.T. Unfortunately, the negotiations between Spielberg and Atari took
longer than expected.
Atari needed to have the game ready for the Christmas shopping season, so Warshaw had
to finish it in September. The problem was that Spielberg and Atari made their deal in July
of that year. Raiders of the Lost Ark had taken 10 months to develop, but Warshaw only had
five weeks to make the E.T. game. However, he was excited by the challenge. He worked
on the game practically round the clock in his large house, which was equipped with
a powerful computer system. “Friends were giving me food and checking that I was OK, and
I tried to get some sleep whenever I could. It was the hardest five weeks I have ever
experienced,” he said.
Thanks to this enormous effort, Warshaw finished the game on time. Spielberg played it and
approved. The game hit the shops, and it sold well at first. But people soon began
complaining about its confusing gameplay system and its tendency to freeze. Shops started
returning copies. In the end, the game only sold 2.5 million copies and Atari decided to bury
all the unsold copies in the desert in Alamogordo, New Mexico. Although the company tried
to keep the operation quiet, it was reported by The New York Times. However, without the
internet to keep it alive, the story was forgotten. That is, until 2014, when the filmmakers
of the Atari: Game Over documentary found out about the site and decided to check if the
story was true.
It was difficult to get permission from the city authorities to search the desert area. They
finally agreed but ordered the film crew to complete their search in one day. As a result, only
1,300 copies, out of approximately 700,000 buried there, were found. It turned out that the
copies included other games apart from E.T. The city decided to sell 900 of them, give the
filmmakers a hundred and donate the rest to various museums.
The E.T. game is among the factors blamed for Atari’s later business difficulties. Warshaw
says he does not mind his product being criticized. “It may be a horrible game, but after so
many years, it’s a great honour that it still generates public discussion,” he said. However,
he believes it was Atari’s fault that the negotiations took so long, and he was left with just five
weeks to design, write and test what he says was “the worst game ever”.
Na podstawie: www.ranker.com; www.nypost.com; www.theguardian.com
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6.1. Steven Spielberg wanted Warshaw to design the E.T. game because
A. Warshaw had already designed two games for Spielberg.
B. Warshaw had taken part in the negotiations with Atari.
C. Warshaw was a new game designer with fresh ideas.
D. Warshaw’s previous game had been a success.
6.2. What made Warshaw’s work on the E.T. game a challenge?
A. frequent visits from Atari managers
B. limited working space at home
C. a technological problem
D. a short period of time
6.3. The E.T. game that Warshaw designed
A. was not ready for Christmas.
B. was not checked by Spielberg.
C. turned out to be disappointing.
D. attracted little attention at first.
6.4. The city authorities of Alamogordo
A. allowed the filmmakers to explore its desert for one day.
B. let the filmmakers keep most of the copies.
C. decided to sell all the games discovered.
D. planned to open a museum of games.
6.5. In the last paragraph, the author
A. expresses his opinion about Warshaw’s game design.
B. explains why Warshaw’s game is still popular.
C. describes how Warshaw’s career developed.
D. reports how Warshaw feels about the game.
PRZENIEŚ ROZWIĄZANIA NA KARTĘ ODPOWIEDZI!
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jako jedno odniesienie się do podpunktu polecenia.
\nwzajemnie wykluczających się wyrazów/wyrażeń, lub za pomocą równorzędnych
wyrazów/wyrażeń jest traktowana jako jedno odniesienie, np.
• opisz, jak reagowała publiczność na występ zespołu
The audience was enthusiastic and very excited.
odnoszących się do różnych aspektów, jest uznawana za podpunkt rozwinięty.
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