Game:

E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)

Category:

Let's Play

Duration: 10:45

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ET Phone Home! In this let's play video, I play what is regarded as the worst video game ever made - E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial on the Atari 2600.

E.T. released in 1982 to negative reviews, and is often cited as the downfall of the video game market in 1983. The large production scale of video games at the time, coupled with an over-saturated market and negative reviews, led Atari to bury nearly 700,000 unsold games in a landfill in New Mexico, among other titles.

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About the game:

E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (also referred to simply as E.T.) is a 1982 adventure video game developed and published by Atari, Inc. for the Atari 2600 video game console. It is based on the film of the same name, and was designed by Howard Scott Warshaw. The objective of the game is to guide the eponymous character through various screens to collect three pieces of an interplanetary telephone that will allow him to contact his home planet.

The game is often cited as one of the worst video games released and was one of the biggest commercial failures in video gaming history. The game's commercial failure and resulting effects on Atari are frequently cited as a contributing factor to the video game industry crash of 1983.

It was believed that as a result of overproduction and returns, millions of unsold cartridges were buried in an Alamogordo, New Mexico landfill. In 2013, plans were revealed to conduct an excavation to determine the accuracy of reports about the burial, and in April of the following year, the diggers confirmed that the Alamogordo Burial did include E.T. cartridges among other titles. James Heller, the former Atari manager who was in charge of the original burial, was also on hand at the excavation and revealed to the Associated Press that 728,000 cartridges of various titles were buried.

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