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Total Failure: The World's Worst Video Game

NPR TechnologyMay-31-2017, 16:47:32 GMT

"I did the E.T. video game, the game that is widely held to be the worst video game of all time," he says. The Extra-Terrestrial for the Atari 2600 was a commercial flop and a gaming disaster. Based loosely on Steven Spielberg's 1982 blockbuster of the same name, the game was a confusing mess that left players frustrated and disoriented. Millions of copies went unsold, and Atari ended up literally burying the game by dumping many surplus cartridges into a New Mexico landfill. Within a year of E.T.'s release, the entire video game industry collapsed. Warshaw ultimately had to give up his career as a game designer.

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