I played it, briefly. It was horrible. Definitely right up there for me.
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bright@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
I never played it, but E.T. The Extraterrestrial caused the near death of the entire video game industry
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E.T.the_Extra-Terrestrial(video_game)#Effect_on_Atari
ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
64bithero@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
While it certainly was a bad game it didn’t destroy the gaming industry in the US. It’s a great symbol and was one of the many symptoms (lots of bad games) that got a lot of people fired …
DJKJuicy@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Same. I don’t want to sound cliche but yeah. E.T.
And there are people saying that they immediately knew it was bad. When I was 12 I would play any video game for as long as I could. And I remember screen after screen of just terrible, unimaginative redundant gameplay and wondering if I was doing it wrong…
zod000@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
E.T. was such a bad game. I still have my copy. What’s funny is that at one point I ended up with two copies because one of my friends left their copy at my house, but no one would claim it so I have no idea which friend it was (four of us owned a 2600). I can think of nothing more damning of a game than this example.
LurkingLuddite@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
That’s an insane exaggeration of consequences, but that game is still uniquely boring.