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E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial - Bad Game Hall of Fame (www.badgamehalloffame.com)
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It's a good game! It's misunderstood!

Or so I remembered reading many years ago (almost ten, as it happens).

When trying to find this article, I couldn't do it because search is incredibly broken now, but with a little help I found it. So here it is.

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[–] orbituary@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 2 days ago

Except for not. E.T. had very bad bugs - the pits were so unmanageable. You would fall in without being near them. You spent half the game floating your way out of them only to fall in again. Biggest trash heap ever made.