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at the top right of the screen; E.T. has to arrive at the landing zone before it reaches zero. Once E.T. gets to the forest where his ship abandoned him and stands and waits in the designated area for the ship to come, the ship will appear on-screen and take him back to his home planet. Then the game starts over, with the same difficulty level, while changing the location of the telephone pieces. The score obtained during the round is carried over to the next iteration. E.T. has three lives and if he dies within those three lives
Elliott will come in and revive him. E.T. can get a fourth life if the player finds a geranium in one of the wells. According to the manual, a game can end "when E.T. runs out of energy or when you decide to quit playing".
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the goal. The player would need to gather parts for a phone to call his ship and arrive at a special landing site to achieve this goal. Warshaw considered obstacles as an element that would determine the success of a game, and experienced difficulties when taking into account the time constraints and technical limitations of the console. Inspired by the film, adults were implemented as antagonists that would chase the alien. Pits were devised as an element to hide the pieces of the phone as well as expand the game world.
404:?" Believing the concept too derivative of a common game design, Warshaw proceeded with his concept, which he believed would capture the sentimentality he saw in the original film. (Warshaw later stated that, in retrospect, Spielberg's idea might have had merit.) He spent the remaining time programming. Atari graphic designer Jerome Domurat assisted Warshaw with creating graphics for the game. Atari anticipated enormous sales based on the popularity of the film, as well as the stability of the
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the current area, each area enabling the player to perform different actions. Antagonists include a scientist who takes E.T. for observation and an FBI agent who chases the alien to confiscate one of the collected telephone pieces, or candy. The game offers diverse difficulty settings that affect the number and speed of humans present, and the conditions needed to accomplish the objective.
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produced a negative supply and demand event, prompted retailers to repeatedly discount price. According to Ray Kassar, about 3.5 million of the four million produced were sent back to the company as unsold inventory or customer returns. Despite sales figures, the quantity of unsold merchandise, coupled with the expensive film license and the large number of returns, made
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The game is divided into six environments, each representing a different setting from the film. To accomplish the objective, the player must guide E.T. into the wells. Once all items found in a well are collected, the player must levitate E.T. out of them. An icon at the top of each screen represents
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to obtain a piece of the telephone, or the player can save the candy pieces for bonus points at the end. After the three phone pieces have been collected, the player must guide E.T. to an area where he can use the phone, which allows him to call his home planet. Once the call is made, a clock appears
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Warshaw used those days to design the structure and segmented the concept into four ideas: world, objective, the path to achieve the objective, and obstacles. He envisioned a six-sided world that players could "float" around as the setting, and adapted part of the film's plot, E.T. phoning home, as
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s success. Even though the game was a bestseller during the holiday season, retailers still stated that its sales figures did not meet expectations. Warner
Communications also expressed disappointment at the number of sales. Lower-than-expected sales figures combined with excess inventory, which
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have attributed the cancellations to changes Atari initiated in its relationship to distributors. On
November 1, 1982, Atari informed them that their contracts were canceled and that exclusive deals would be established with select distributors. Hubner and Kistner believed the action prompted
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s combined effect on the company's reputation and the industry's reaction. Buchanan also cited the game as a factor in Atari and the industry's crash. He stated that the large amount of unsold merchandise was a financial burden to Atari, which pushed the company into debt.
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called it the most famous disaster story among film-inspired video games as well as within the industry. GamePro publication named it second-worst movie game ever, citing it as an example of how poor gameplay can bring negative reception to strong licenses.
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Critics often attribute the poor quality to the short development time. Townsend commented that the rushed development was very apparent. Warshaw's contributions have been met with mixed responses. Classic Gaming called the game poorly designed, while
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museum added several excavated cartridges and a video touchpad, a sample of landfill dirt taken from the site of the burial, and items of clothing worn by the excavation team to their collection. A selection of these items are on permanent display.
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debacle, but the fact is I'm always happy to discuss it. After all, it was the fastest game ever done, it was a million seller, and of the thousands of 2600 games, how many others are still a topic? Another thing I like to think about is having done
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cartridges away because, as one later said, the "game sucked ... you couldn't finish it". Classic Gaming argued that despite the negative reception, the game can be enjoyable after the player has learned to navigate the pits.
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to commission him as developer of the video game adaptation. Kassar informed him that
Spielberg asked for Warshaw specifically and that development had to be completed by September 1 to meet a production schedule for the
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Atari's biggest mistake, as well as the largest financial failure in the industry. Reiley commented that the game's poor quality was responsible for ending the product life of the Atari 2600. Occurring soon after
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14 times, there's no more suspense left—unless you bring home this one-player cartridge", adding that "it’s certain that your patience won't run out—if you're a kid. (Adults may prefer to wait for a game based on
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itself did not contribute greatly to the collapse, outside of Atari, by mid-1983. The release timing led to the game gaining the reputation of being responsible for the 1983 crash.
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to acquire a license to produce a video game based on the film. Later that month, Warner announced its exclusive worldwide rights to market coin-operated and console games based on
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s poor reception was attributed by Kent to have had a negative impact on Atari's reputation and profitability. Authors Nick
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and other Atari games were discovered in the early hours of the excavation. The burial of the E.T. cartridges was also the basis for the independent 2014 science fiction comedy
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Warshaw and other Atari executives presented this design to
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has been universally panned by critics and is frequently listed as the worst video game ever made. Reiley ranked it number one in a list of the 20 worst games of all time in
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reviewer, commented that this element prompted him to immediately return the game for a refund after purchasing it in his youth, and the children who found games in the
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The player must navigate E.T. into wells to search for pieces of the interplanetary telephone. This aspect of the game was negatively received by players and critics.
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copies by the end of 1982. However, at least 669,000 copies were later returned in 1983. One retailer said that "mostly grandmothers" bought the game; because of
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when adjusted for inflation to 2024) for the rights, a high figure for video game licensing at the time. When asked by Ross what he thought about making an
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cartridges, among other games. James Heller, the former Atari manager who was in charge of the burial, was at the excavation, and admitted to the
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are buried in this landfill, crushed and encased in cement. The story of the buried cartridges was erroneously regarded by some as an
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in Cambridge, England, also received some artefacts from the desert, which are on permanent display in the museum gallery.
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McQuiddy, Marian E. (September 28, 1983). "City cementing ban on dumping: Landfill won't house any more 'Atari rejects'".
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are scattered throughout the world and are represented by black dots.
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retailers to cancel orders, which Atari had not properly tracked.
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and other Atari materials uncovered during the excavation
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called it "really for kids (the littler ones)". In 1984,
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scored it six out of ten in December 1982. Len Albin of
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of the same name, and featured Howard Scott Warshaw.
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at the time. Due to time limitations, Atari skipped
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2208:Christopher, Kevin (February–March 1983).
1822:
1820:
1363:. October 6, 2008. Event occurs at 3:58.
1156:Llorca, Juan Carlos (September 28, 1983).
1151:
1149:
746:crash of the entire western games industry
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41:
1913:"The Warner Case: Curiouser and Curioser"
1884:. McGraw Hill Book Company. p. 120.
1507:. Roseville, California: Prima. pp.
1420:"New Faces, More Profits For Video Games"
29:E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial in video games
2950:"HP TouchPads to be dumped in landfill?"
2917:. Vol. 7, no. 32. p. 64.
1720:"Two questions I face constantly are..."
1281:
1279:
264:E.T. meets Elliott in a field of wells.
3651:E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (video game)
3610:Warshaw, Howard Scott (November 2007).
2295:. Vol. 30, no. 49. p. 54
1561:
1559:
1557:
1030:"E.T. Needs Your Help! (advertisement)"
1021:
18:E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (Atari 2600)
4504:E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial video games
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3369:from the original on February 24, 2016
3306:from the original on December 18, 2014
3270:from the original on February 25, 2021
3231:from the original on November 12, 2020
2997:from the original on September 6, 2017
2464:Llorca, Juan Carlos (April 26, 2014).
2333:from the original on September 6, 2011
1773:
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1696:from the original on December 27, 2015
1654:Digital Press: The Video Game Database
1546:. December 13, 1982. pp. D1, D8.
1367:from the original on October 8, 2009.
1233:from the original on September 6, 2018
1134:from the original on February 11, 2015
1093:"Alamogordo approves Atari excavation"
624:In much later reviews, Kevin Bowen of
476:, children preferred the best-selling
182:, who intended it to be an innovative
3624:from the original on November 6, 2018
3562:"City to Atari: 'E.T.' trash go home"
2962:from the original on November 8, 2011
2804:"10 to 1: The Worst Movie Games Ever"
2541:from the original on November 3, 2011
2372:from the original on January 27, 2017
2189:from the original on February 8, 2023
1861:. December 7, 1982. pp. D1, D5.
1827:Pollack, Andrew (December 19, 1982).
1778:Hooper, Richard (February 22, 2016).
1729:from the original on November 6, 2018
1650:"DP Interviews: Howard Scott Warshaw"
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496:a major financial failure for Atari.
387:and an all-expenses-paid vacation to
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3574:from the original on August 15, 2013
3546:from the original on August 15, 2013
3222:Truitt, Brian. (September 2, 2014).
3079:Montfort, Nick; Bogost, Ian (2009).
2909:"Is the PCJr Doomed To Be Landfill?"
2888:from the original on August 10, 2023
2700:Montfort, Nick; Bogost, Ian (2009).
2629:Montfort, Nick; Bogost, Ian (2009).
2266:from the original on October 6, 2016
1418:Harmetz, Aljean (January 15, 1983).
1287:"E.T.* THE EXTRA-TERRESTRIAL manual"
1069:from the original on August 31, 2014
308:Following the commercial success of
3340:from the original on May 15, 2020.
3294:Robarge, Drew (December 15, 2014).
2929:from the original on August 1, 2019
2445:from the original on April 27, 2014
2431:Terdiman, Daniel (April 26, 2014).
2321:Townsend, Emru (October 23, 2006).
2222:from the original on March 16, 2016
1790:from the original on August 4, 2016
1503:The Ultimate History of Video Games
1430:from the original on August 1, 2019
1361:Australian Broadcasting Corporation
1297:from the original on March 13, 2021
1168:from the original on April 26, 2014
1124:"E.T. Found In New Mexico Landfill"
279:in which players control the alien
3431:from the original on March 3, 2021
3143:from the original on May 15, 2020.
3139:. September 28, 1983. p. D4.
2981:Kennedy, James (August 20, 2011).
2907:Dvorak, John C (August 12, 1985).
2681:from the original on July 26, 2011
2669:Buchanan, Levi (August 26, 2008).
2474:. Associated Press. Archived from
2156:from the original on July 29, 2014
1865:from the original on May 14, 2020.
1841:from the original on May 15, 2020.
1660:from the original on July 21, 2017
1584:from the original on May 14, 2020.
1550:from the original on May 14, 2020.
1456:Keith, Phipps (February 2, 2005).
1400:from the original on May 14, 2020.
1264:from the original on March 3, 2021
1122:Schreier, Jason (April 26, 2014).
954:, added comments to the generated
774:video game industry crisis of 1983
25:
3489:Cocilova, Alex (April 16, 2013).
3401:from the original on May 16, 2019
3336:. June 26, 2019. 23 minutes in.
3190:Hilliard, Kyle (April 26, 2014).
2574:from the original on June 6, 2011
2210:"ET Phones Home for the Holidays"
2114:from the original on July 5, 2015
2104:"New Games From Well-Known Names"
2083:from the original on June 5, 2014
1829:"The Game Turns Serious at Atari"
1468:from the original on June 5, 2011
1260:. Video Game History Foundation.
1252:Harris, John (November 3, 2017).
1042:from the original on May 14, 2020
3897:
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3503:from the original on May 8, 2019
3332:(Podcast). Season 4. Episode 2.
2746:. April 25, 2007. Archived from
2323:"The 10 Worst Games of All Time"
1748:Brumfiel, Geoff (May 31, 2017).
1538:"E.T. Starring in Sales of Toys"
1327:. Classic Gaming. Archived from
1196:. April 26, 2014. Archived from
1091:Goldsmith, Alex (May 30, 2013).
994:
980:
937:The Centre for Computing History
926:added an excavated cartridge of
912:Angry Video Game Nerd: The Movie
316:, CEO of Atari's parent company
213:In what was once deemed only an
3455:"Digging up E.T.'s source code"
3153:McQuiddy, "Dump here utilized."
3016:Paige, Earl (January 8, 1983).
2948:Jary, Simon (August 19, 2011).
2593:Elektro, Dan (August 8, 2003).
2285:Albin, Len (December 4, 1982).
2014:"The Agony & The Ecstasy".
1985:. January 8, 1983. p. 36.
1880:Zap! The Rise and Fall of Atari
1396:. August 19, 1982. p. D6.
219:cartridges were secretly buried
2802:Smithee, Alan (July 1, 2004).
1973:"Billboard Top 15 Video Games"
1811:Sales and Marketing Management
1219:Poeter, Damon (June 5, 2013).
930:to their collection. In 2015,
1:
4529:Video games set in California
3453:Johnson, Phil (May 6, 2014).
2069:Lien, Tracey (June 3, 2014).
347:-based video game, Atari CEO
4312:Television Interface Adaptor
4141:American Multiple Industries
3862:Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers
3797:E.T.: Interplanetary Mission
3326:"The Worst Video Game Ever?"
3026:. Vol. 95, no. 1.
2872:"E.T. "The Worst Game Ever""
2404:. Vol. 4, no. 40.
2175:Vogt, Rick (March 5, 1983).
2102:Wiswell, Phil (March 1983).
1981:. Vol. 95, no. 1.
943:Attempts to improve the game
56:Atari's silver label box art
4469:1980s science fiction works
3028:Nielsen Business Media, Inc
2535:Public Broadcasting Service
1983:Nielsen Business Media, Inc
239:Atari Inc.: Business Is Fun
163:developed and published by
4545:
4499:Cancelled Atari 5200 games
3883:Extra Terrestrial Visitors
3782:E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
3761:E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
3753:E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
3716:E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
3674:E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
3666:E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
3658:E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
3171:McQuiddy, "City to Atari."
2984:"Book Review: Super Mario"
2005:Cartridge Sales Since 1980
1945:"What went wrong at Atari"
1853:"A Squeeze in Video Games"
1390:"Atari Gets 'E.T.' Rights"
1351:"Good Game Shocks the 80s"
895:Alamogordo City Commission
843:
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310:E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
173:the film of the same name.
153:E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
45:E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
26:
4509:Single-player video games
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3892:
2396:"What the hell happened?"
2366:Electronic Gaming Monthly
663:Electronic Gaming Monthly
612:—Howard Scott Warshaw on
178:The game was designed by
49:
3131:"Atari Parts Are Dumped"
1688:. Season 2. Episode 14.
1359:. Series 4. Episode 25.
1010:List of Atari 2600 games
734:Video game crash of 1983
719:. Patrick O'Luanaigh of
369:Christmas holiday season
200:video game crash of 1983
4439:Atari video game burial
3789:Atari video game burial
3425:computinghistory.org.uk
3334:Smithsonian Institution
3300:Smithsonian Institution
2990:The Wall Street Journal
2134:"The Best and the Rest"
1718:Warshaw, Howard Scott.
924:Smithsonian Institution
866:In September 1983, the
846:Atari video game burial
840:Atari video game burial
414:its console version of
380:Raiders of the Lost Ark
3282:The Hollywood Reporter
3263:The Hollywood Reporter
2868:Croshaw, Ben "Yahtzee"
2840:The Art of Game Worlds
2029:Bruck, Connie (1995).
1458:"Howard Scott Warshaw"
947:In 2006, Dennis Debro
922:In December 2014, the
872:Alamogordo, New Mexico
863:
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636:Sean "Seanbaby" Reiley
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223:Alamogordo, New Mexico
4489:Atari 2600-only games
4332:Starpath Supercharger
3834:The Earth Day Special
3807:Theme park attraction
3669:manual at archive.org
3602:Alamogordo Daily News
3591:Alamogordo Daily News
3567:Alamogordo Daily News
3539:Alamogordo Daily News
2838:Morris, Dave (2004).
2750:on September 12, 2008
2570:. November 17, 2006.
1876:Cohen, Scott (1984).
1752:. NPR. Archived from
970:touched a pit entry.
893:On May 28, 2013, the
868:Alamogordo Daily News
853:
844:Further information:
763:on the game's infamy.
761:Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw
732:Further information:
504:While reviews of the
435:Anticipation for the
430:
318:Warner Communications
263:
243:the 2014 documentary
4514:Top-down video games
4282:Howard Scott Warshaw
3653:at Wikimedia Commons
3584:Archived 2005-04-01.
3556:Archived 2005-04-01.
2595:"Secrets & Lies"
2394:Staff (April 1998).
1911:(January 24, 1983).
1570:(January 14, 1986).
1095:. ALAMOGORDO, N.M.:
582:My Dinner with Andre
364:Howard Scott Warshaw
341:$ 63–79 million
324:and its distributor
285:top-down perspective
180:Howard Scott Warshaw
90:Howard Scott Warshaw
4391:Atari Greatest Hits
4366:Emulation and ports
4317:Atari joystick port
4307:Atari 2600 hardware
3363:The Henry Ford Blog
1568:The Washington Post
1331:on October 10, 2008
964:collision detection
646:New Mexico landfill
406:video game industry
3136:The New York Times
3030:. pp. 1, 21.
2870:(August 6, 2014).
2511:on October 5, 2008
1858:The New York Times
1834:The New York Times
1614:on January 9, 2014
1543:The New York Times
1394:The New York Times
1065:. Digitpress.com.
988:Video games portal
864:
442:The New York Times
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377:and six months on
337:20–25 million
326:Universal Pictures
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3869:Light & Magic
3649:Media related to
3266:. July 25, 2014.
3204:on April 27, 2014
3102:978-0-262-01257-7
2723:978-0-262-01257-7
2652:978-0-262-01257-7
2478:on April 27, 2014
2471:The State Journal
1909:Pileggi, Nicholas
1723:onceuponatari.com
1648:Stilphen, Scott.
1577:Los Angeles Times
1200:on April 27, 2014
1061:Scott, Stilphen.
500:Critical response
221:in a landfill in
192:worst of all time
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