I was six years old when the Atari 2600 game E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial was released.In the years since, the game has taken on an almost mythical quality in the hearts and minds of many Atari fans, ...

The man himself admitted as much. In a 2005 interview with The A.V Club, ... December 1982 - E.T. The Extra-terrestrial Atari Game Hits Stores, And Flops Hard.

Howard Scott Warshaw would still like to be remembered as The Man Who Made the Worst Video Game Ever. That doesn’t mean he thinks E.T. for the Atari 2600, which he built over five weeks in 1982 ...

Family unearths rare Atari game from storage, it could sell for $30,000. by Alexa Ray Corriea. Oct 26, 2012, 12:58 AM UTC. An ... “The man told me, ‘It’s my last copy.

Ask fans of video game lore what the worst game of all time is. Nine times out of ten, you’ll get the same answer: E.T. the Extraterrestrial. See, what really went into the ground in Alamogordo ...

Atari’s Spider-Man is not only the first video game appearance of Peter Parker, it’s also the first video game ever made based on a Marvel property, so it has some pretty significant cultural ...

Pac-Man on the Atari VCS (2600). Today, the arcade cabinet of Namco’s Pac-Man is universally thought to be the definitive version. But the game was more or less a flop when it hit arcades in its ...

In addition to the E.T. video game, Pac-Man and Ms. Pac-Man video games were also buried. Atari was disposing of material from their El Paso, Texas facility. In 1983, Action 7 News was there as ...