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Cake day: June 29th, 2023

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  • The E.T. game being “the worst game” thing is all myth. It was a tremendous flop, but it had nothing to do with game quality. I’d say that 90% of Atari 2600 games were objectively bad and E.T. was amongst the 10% of good ones. They over estimated demand, overhyped it, and sold it during the holidays, which means extended and relaxed return policies. That resulted in too many units manufactured and too many units returned. Thus the landfill full of cartridges.

    Source: I was one of the kids that got it for Christmas. It was fine, but wenty minutes later, I was back to Yar’s Revenge.