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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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[โ€“] MajorHavoc@programming.dev 2 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

That's a fair point. I enjoyed the game later out of curiosity - but it wasn't a "this is your only Christmas gift" kick in the gut, for me.

[โ€“] zod000@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 17 hours ago

The only good side of E.T. is that it kick started the implosion of Atari which lead to me getting many games super cheap in the following years. There was a local store Zayre, which later changed the name to Ames, that constantly had Atari games on heavy sales. After the NES released, I picked up a bunch of games for $5 each. Of course, it was hard to enjoy them knowing the NES existed and I didn't have one yet :)