Yeah, you heard me right. I bought E.T. for the Atari 2600 today, and I have a few things to say about it.

First off, when I first heard that it was the worst game ever some years, I was really expecting that it was literally unplayable. I've read on various websites that you fall into various pits. I, at first, thought that you only fell down a gigantic 10-screen pit that would literally take years to get out of. Damn, was I stupid.

Later on, I watched videos of the game, and it started looking a lot less horrifying. You only fell into small pits that were frustrating to get out of, but at least the game wasn't a gigantic 10-screen pit.

Anyway, I saw the game at a place that sells used video games and I had to buy it to see how bad it was firsthand. To make a long story short, I only played it twice so far, but it's not as bad as people say it is. Don't get me wrong, it's still quite a terrible game, but there are titles that are easily worse than E.T. in my opinion.

Go ahead, now, and post your opinions on this.

Murdar Machene wrote:

I agree. I think it's not that horrid as a game, although it's definitely not fun. I think what makes it so bad was the fact that it had a multi-million dollar movie tie-in and tons of Christmas season hype associated with it. The fucking advertisements for it make me sick. E.T. dressed as Santa happily bringing the piece of shit out to some unsuspecting family, etc.

I think I know what you mean. . . .
Edit: Damn, it doesn't work. Oh well, I'll just pretend it does. Whee!

Avian wrote:

Yea it's not so bad. Maybe compared to the lofty expectations people had for it, but there are a lot worse shitfests out there.

I agree with you, Avian. There are shittier games out there.

Syd Lexia wrote:

Not Sure wrote: Also, I still don't think you're real. Of course he is. Here's a picture of him:

Nice! XD

Cam-win wrote:

I have E.T. I'm thinking one of the main reasons why people hate it so much is because it just doesn't...make...sense. You can hardly tell what's going on and it seems like you keep falling into pits every five seconds. The pits wouldn't be so annoying if they didn't show up so randomly and frequently. Plus, what exactly is the objective in this game? All I can see is that you run around bad terrain and this guy with a trench coat chases you and takes you to a building with pedestals in front of it, and you fall into holes. That's it.

I think the objective of the game is to go down pits and collect pieces of the telephone so Extremely Traumatizing can phone home.

Seriously, that thing is ugly and it scares my sister.