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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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[–] MajorHavoc@programming.dev 4 points 2 days ago

they're all some random platformer which sometimes alluded to they had a movie name.

That's a good point. E.T. was not alone in this, and had more to do with it's movie that many games that followed.