I know that there are plenty of things to say and not say about ET and how utterly horrible of a game it is. but honestly I'd rather talk about the things surrounding the game, such as the urban legend turned true about how this game, among other infamous Atari 2600 games, were buried in a New Mexico landfill as they couldn't move units in stores. or how this game was rushed out in SIX WEEKS to hit store shelves. even the most rushed of modern games had more time put into them than six weeks

this game wasn't the prime reason for the video game crash of 1983 - it just makes for an incredibly easy and very visible scapegoat. I think this is a game every self-professed gamer should play at least once, even if it's absolutely horrible. it's important to get a little perspective into finding out why the video game ecosystem is the way it is, and especially why early Nintendo was the way it was. and, yknow, how capitalism ends up requiring the mass manufacturing of bad art in order to prop up entire industries for the sake of profit, no matter how much the customer hates it in the end, or something. it's 2:30 AM where I live