Finally an episode for the gamers! It’s often called one of the worst games of all time and is credited with tanking the nascent video game industry, but how much damage could a crappy rendering of a beloved alien really do? This week we unwrap the worst Christmas present of 1982: the Atari 2600 adaptation of Steven Spielberg’s E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial.

Footage of the game
 
Sources: 

Total Failure: Creating The World's Worst Video Game : NPR

Howard Scott Warshaw Pleads Not Guilty to Killing Video Games | WIRED

OSG Presents Classic Gamer Magazine #2 (Page 35)

Atari: Game Over (2014) 

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