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E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial - Bad Game Hall of Fame (www.badgamehalloffame.com)

submitted 2 days ago by homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world to c/retrogaming@lemmy.world

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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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[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 3 points 2 days ago (8 children)

ET was only slightly different in game play from what is argued to be the BEST game on the Atari 2600, Indiana Jones. It had some annoying things (the pits mostly) but was otherwise the same exact game as something people actually liked. It's failure is actually kinda weird.

[–] 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.

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