Game:

E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)

Category:

Tutorial

Duration: 5:20

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Welcome back to Complete In Box, our video series that looks back at classic games through the lens of their boxes, manuals, and other cool stuff that came packaged with them. Today, we look at what is often called the “worst game ever”: Atari’s E.T.

Listen, I don’t think E.T. is the worst game ever. (Everybody knows it’s really Jurassic Park Trespasser.) But the idea for this episode came from my friend Jenn Frank, who, upon viewing other episodes of Complete In box, posited the notion that E.T. is actually not bad if you take the time to read and absorb its instruction manual before you play it.

Is it? Well, you’ll just have to watch the video to find out.