E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial

It's honestly one of the worst Atari 2600 games, and it's really poorly gameplay, the visible and invisible holes everywhere, and the confusing directions, it's honestly and admittedly a broken down game.

The programmer had 5 weeks to design, program & test this game so that Atari could get it manufactured & into stores in time for Christmas. Many blame this one game with crashing the video game market in the mid-80's. While this game helped kill Atari, what crashed things was lots of crappy games from over 30 companies that had jumped on board hoping to make a quick buck. One of those companies, U.S. Games, was a division of Quaker Oats!

This game literally caused the entire video game industry to crash and was so bad that Atari buried every single copy

I've heard that this is the worst video game of all time. I think the reason why it has a lot of negative reception, is because gamers got frustrated very easily, because of the gameplay or something like that. But I agree on them. There's even a documentary about this game. But I'm gonna have to watch it sometime. Even though I'm usually not into documentaries. I would rather watch the movie than play this game.

OK. I know how many people think that E.T is Rubbish and the Worst Game ever but it is OK for Atari 2600 Standards. There is a plot and it was one of the first games to have an ending video. The holes are annoying and the game glitches and has its fault but it is OK. If you bought it when it came out in 1982 with the instructions then you would actually know what to do. Games on the Atari 2600 that are worse include Custers Revenge, The Kool Aid game, and Beat em and Eat Em just to name a Few. I know that it isn't Adventure or Pitfall but it is alright. I have finished this game a few times so it is finishable. Thats about it. It is OK for its time which was during the great video game depression.