E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (also referred to simply as E.T.) is an adventure video game developed and published by Atari, Inc. for the Atari 2600 video game console in 1982. It is based on the film of the same name, and was designed by Howard Scott Warshaw. The goal of the game is to guide the titular protagonist through various screens to collect three pieces of an interplanetary telephone that allows him to call his home planet.
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E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (also referred to simply as E.T.) is an adventure video game developed and published by Atari, Inc. for the Atari 2600 video game console in 1982. It is based on the film of the same name, and was designed by Howard Scott Warshaw. The goal of the game is to guide the titular protagonist through various screens to collect three pieces of an interplanetary telephone that allows him to call his home planet.
With few exceptions, critics and video game enthusiasts feel that it was a poorly produced and rushed game that Atari thought would achieve high sales figures based on brand loyalty to the names of Atari and E.T.. Warshaw designed the game to be an innovative adaptation of the film. Negotiations to secure the rights to make the game ended in later July 1982, giving Warshaw only five weeks to develop the game in time for the 1982 Christmas holiday season.
E.T. is often viewed as one of the biggest commercial failures in video gaming history, as well as one of...
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