A Steven Spielberg Classic Gave Rise To The Worst Video Game In History

Since this type of superhero that was reliable has eased his iron grip on cinema pioneers, Hollywood is heading to video games as a source of great success, and it seems that he is working so far. Certainly we have historical worms like the largest bomb in 2024 and “Borderlands”, but in the aftermath of “Minecraft”, which claims two of the largest box office holidays in 2025 and “The Super Mario Bros.” To become one of the 20 largest films ever, the following IP video games look.

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For a long time, of course, things mostly have done in the other direction: Hollywood will provide IP and video gaming developers to do their best with the license. But for the largest part, it seemed as if to adapt successful films to video games. There were a lot of terrible games based on successful films that often accepted that such games would be terrible.

But there is one game that is really notorious because it is a tremendous mistake so that you can provide a decent argument because it is zero from the bad video game that followed. This game is “et the out-highial” for the ATAri 2600 unit.

“Et” outside the ground has become notorious since its appearance in 1982, but is this reputation worth? “Raides of the Lost Ark”, which was clearly that Spielberg loved her, and according to Warshaw, she felt “watching” himself.

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The only problem was that it took some time for Artari and Melbelberg to put the legal aspect of things. The movie “ET” first appeared in the theaters on June 11, 1982, and it was embraced immediately, to become an immediate classic for acceptance that maintains the degree of semi -perfect rotten tomatoes. But it took it until the end of July of that year for Spielberg and Atari to reach an agreement. After that, the CEO of Atari Warshaw called and was charged with making the game within only five weeks so that the company can launch it in time to spend the Christmas vacation. For any reason, the young ambitious developer agreed. “I don’t know exactly what I was full of at that time,” Warsho told NPR. “But whatever it is, I was overflowing with it, and I think I can pull it. I mean, arrogance from it!”

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Warshaw designed the game about a plot point in the movie where the foreign foreigner gathered parts to build a connection that would allow him to “call the house”. According to the developer, Spielberg seemed frustrated when he first saw the game building, and he was rejected with GLIB, “Can’t you do something like Pac-Man?” While these words were clearly injured and Warsho, it turned out that Spielberg was right in proposing a different approach, as it was found that “et” outside terrorism is not just flipping but the golden standard for terrible video games.

Wonder is at the heart of the good Steven Spielberg movie, and “ET” is a major example, as it completely picked up unrestricted that we are able to feel like children, and to packaging it in a technically impressive heart attack as you touch it. However, the video game was not only failed to match the film’s wonder, but it was soon known as the worst video games ever (a reputation kept to this day) and is one of the largest commercial failures in the history of video games. This did not help that Atari fell in difficult times while “et” appeared for the first time, which means a narration that was formed that the game brought alone the video game industry to her knees. This, of course, is not accurate, but it is far from the only important element in playing in the inheritance of the troubled game. After its release, an urban legend arose that Atari buried all the “et” cartridges that were not sold in the landfill. It turned out that this is partly true, when in 2014 investigators found buried cartridges, although only some of 800,000 games were “et” and it turned out that Atari was burying an unused stock after closing her factory in Texas.

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However, there is no doubt that the game “et” would have benefited from following the idea of ​​”PAC Man” for Spielberg. Adaptation is not remembered with pride, and it is not very difficult to know the reason. Part of the problem was the way the game used the “wrapping” level design that witnessed users, playing as the owner of the Earth, start on one screen before traveling across many others to retreat as they started. The levels are also watched with a small pits in which ET can decrease, and it often did it. All this is frustrated, but according to Lorcho, this plan was at least partial. “There is a difference between frustration and confusion,” NPR told NPR. “Video games revolve around frustration. It’s okay to frustrate the user. In fact, it is important to frustrate the user. But you don’t want to weaken the user.”

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Unfortunately, this is exactly what “et” did. Critics were not very admired, but as Gamehistory indicates, the reputation of the reputable game is not fully composed of its actual quality or the duration of contemporary reviews. The site has already collected many reviews from the time period and found that critics were lukewarm in the worst, and neutral at best. However, SoftLine readers voted on the game in the second ATARI program of 1983, and modern critics were more cruel to “et” that they lead to become known to be the worst video game ever-although the bad video game by “Demolition Man” or the chaos that was the “Island’s Island” game that has strong claims.