@richmwill Yes, In fact I just got it for the 2600. When I got E.T. for the 2600 back in '86 my console conked out before I got a chance to even play it. I guess I should be grateful for that.
I would have rather gotten a lump of coal for christmas than this pos. At least you can burn coal for heat. This game doesn't even bury good- they had to smash them and pave over them!
damn!! "I" wanted an E.T. for the 2600 for xmas =( i want to waste a whole 5 minutes of my life playing the shittiest game ever devised by man. where can i find a copy?? ebay? clist? hmm...new mexico !!!!!!!
Atari would never trash the E.T. cartridges. Instead, they would do what Nintendo did to the RadarScope arcades and left-over Mario Paint boxes: recycle for later use. Nintendo reused the RadarScope arcades for the Donkey Kong arcades, while they sold MOTHER 2 in North America as EarthBound while packing them with a Nintendo Power Player's Guide in the left-over Mario Paint boxes. So it would of cost E.T. a lot of money to hire all those diggers and waste the cartridges they could of re-used.
erhmm well z<.< acctualy nintendo was born during the 84 gamecrash and there were serveral other factors for it aswell. like to many consolles out on the market.. to many copycats.. bad and overproduced games (like pacman and et) so well nintendo was born in a time of much less standard on the videogame ..and : '( stupid gamecrash my dad showed me the atari 2600 in 98 think we still have it up on tha attic :3 nom nom nom ATARI
erhmm well z<.< acctualy nintendo was born during the 84 gamecrash and there were serveral other factors for it aswell. like to many consolles out on the market.. to many copycats.. bad and overproduced games (like pacman and et) so well nintendo was born in a time of much less standard on the videogame ..and : '( stupid gamecrash my dad showed me the atari 2600 in 98 think we still have it up on tha attic :3 nom nom nom ATARI
@Incrediboy2000 what the hell do you know you young idiot. Your dad squirted many of your brother and sisters in your moms mouth before you even were considered when this came out. This was good graphics and game back then. go back to your gay facebook
it could have been a good game if Howard Warshaw 's fuckig bosses gave him more time. They gave him 6 weeks. The average atari cartridge takes 3-4 months to make and produce 300,000 or more copies. So in six weeks he had to make the game, produce 500,000,000 copies, and ship it out in time for christmas. so blame the creator's bosses
They all should be shot for releasing that game... Even by early 80's standards, it was horrible. I hear they buried 1000's of copies of it.... As if I'm not pissed of enough about the 5200 controllers... ;-)
Why do people think ET was so bad? Compared to other 2600 games, it just wasn't the abomination so many people seem to think it was. The fact that they overproduced this game and were forced to dump some half a million copies in a New Mexico landfill does not mean it was necessarily a terrible game. It was just a poor business decision to saturate the market with so many copies.
@poshko41: I'm glad someone has the courage to say this. ET wasn't that bad of a game. I beat it several times as a kid and it was one of my favorite 2600 cartridges. (Along with Mystic Ark and Airlock).
If people want to play bad Atari 2600 movie license games they ought to try Porky's.
actually I have to say the game is good considering that the programmer only had 6 weeks to make it. Normally a game could take 6 months. But overall it is terrible
I have heard that too. Many, many copies of this game were literally buried in the ground. I noticed that another person had commented that it was partially responsible for the video game crash of '83. I have also heard that same thing many times. I personally got the game when it came out. I found it difficult to figure out at first, but one day learned how to finish the game. Another person mentioned the Pac Man game for the 2600. Yes, that was an awful port of that game. Possibly the worst.
well like 2 million pac-man anyway. Atari made 12 million when there were only 10 million Atari 2600's and in the end they only managed to get rid of 10 million and that was mainly due to the fact that Pac-Man replaced combat as the pack-in game
No, Atari collapsed from the market when Nintendo decided to get in the market.
Nintendo also had a tough time trying to sell their product to retailers because the retailers didn't want to go through the same crap they had endured at the height of video game market's crash. Nintendo had to promise retailers that they would buy back all unsold stock if the NES didn't sell.
Actually Nintendo hadnt come out yet and the market collapsed well before the NES was released. I remember because I was a teenager back then. The NES revived the market because the games were much closer to their arcade counterparts.
I meant to say that Nintendo's entry wasn't the reason for Atari's fall (and when Atari did fall, the NES wasn't available).
And, one reason out of many for the success of the NES was that Nintendo maintained a level of control over software development that Atari did not with the 2600.
Nintendo opted to keep the platform closed and license the right to develop on the system to those willing to do so on Nintendo's terms.
Atari never recognized the potential for 3rd parties to develop games on their system without their consent, so they never created anything that would allow Atari to protect their own platform, much less enforce conditions for 3rd parties to make games on the 2600.
The biggest fall as a result of this oversight came from Atari losing their lawsuit against Activision.
Under this legal precedent, everyone and their mother started making games for the 2600, flooding the market with bad software.
I should rephrase what I said: Atari was already down and out even before Nintendo decided to get in the market.
One big reason for Atari's failure was Commodore.
Another was putting too much of a stake in "E.T." and "Pac-Man."
Another was losing their case against Activision, which set a precedent that many companies wanting to cash in making games took advantage of. You had companies like Quaker Oats making bad games, and all the crap drowned out the good games from Activision and Imagic.
I would kick his motherfucker ass out out my fucking house and get a fucking shotgun and shoot his fucking balls. No alien is coming in my house. What a faggot.
Atari buried about 5 million odd unsold E.T. cartridges in a landfill in the New Mexico desert, plus another 5 million other unsold cartridges which were primarily PacMan.
The dang comercial makes it seem like the game is the shit, but it IS a piece of freaken SHIT!!! You first see it under a christmas tree, and sooner or later they see it buried in new mexico.
LMAO! What a sad christmas day for those kids. What's more disturbing is that their dog didn't bother warning them about this extraterestrial wandering into their unlocked home, letting the warm air out of the house, allowing that blizzrd snow in and not wiping his feet.
too bad they couldn't improve on the game. It would have been so cool to play as E.T. and enjoy it. I mean for freaks sake people you are playing as E.T.!
Wow, not only does this commercial guilt you into a buying this piece of shit but it's not even a remotely GOOD game!! Sadly I own 2 copies of it..both given as gifts
Just looking at that commercial it reminds me of the good ole days. Believing in santa, waking up to see all the presents up under the tree, It was so good being a kid! I hope one day I will have the chance to share the moments and love with my kids. The 80's was the best!!!!
If E.T came in and started playing that piece of crap in my house,I would let him keep it and tell him to get me an NES for that game. That game sucked frozen dog terds.
Ever played Raiders of the Lost Ark? A shady man with a wide hat steals your stuff and sometimes it looks like he's raping you. It's really funny, but it's a bad game.
The "idiot who programmed it"? You do know who programmed it right? It's more like the genius who somehow managed to work magic enough to squeeze that out of five weeks when anyone else would have simply released a crap game like "Gremlins 2600". But yeah, sure, I'm sure reading about it from Gamespot entitles you to call the programmer of Yars Revenge and Raiders of the Lost Arc an idiot. Idiot.
gremlins 2600 is a much better game than ET IMO. Shooting gremlins 3rd person shooter style is MUCH better than falling in holes over and over. HSW ruled except for ET
I saw in a documentary when the programmers who founded Activision left Atari the next pack of games who sold Atari were garbage (ET, Raiders of...) but some people liked them.
Good commercial for a terrible game. But if it wasn't for the 1983/4 video game crash, The NES might never of been a hit. I guess sometimes bad things lead to good things.
What you don't see in the ad is the deleted scene of E.T. screaming "STOP FALLING INTO THE FUCKING HOLES CONSTNALTY!!!", before bursting into tears after realising the magnitude of his selling out-ness.
The game was actually a challenge with the difficulty on hardest (FBI Agent on, Scientist on), but I feel sick when I think how many 1982 dollars my parents shelled out for it.
I got an atari for £30 in 1983 from my dad. I don't remember that game (er, thankfully I think!) hadn't heard much about it before. What was the atari crash thing in 1983?
This commercial could sell anything, Perfect locale: Christmas tree, dog laying by fireplace, snow falling HEAVLY outside, whimsical music, early 80's time period, . . where was I?
E.T. was one of the two games infamous for the videogame crash of 1983 causing a hiatus in the US videogaming industry. Well, some people claim that the crash never happened, but even those people agree that E.T. bought down Atari. Way to go Atari, manufacturing all those ET games, which later became nothing more than landfill in Alamogordo, New Mexico.
That video game actually was pretty bad, but phenominal for a five-week programming time period. I admire this game because of how fast it was done. If anyone else could do a whole game from scratch in only 25 business days, let me know. Great commercial!
Oh man. Seeing this almost gave me an aneurysm! Wow talk about a total forgotten memory flooding back on you. I remember watching this when I was so young, I didn't even know what they where selling, just that ET was in it.
Those two walking down the stairs look like they are happy to come and kick E.T. out of the house, while planning to take the E.T. cartridge and put it in a toaster.
What a beautiful commercial. I'll bet many many little children (myself included at the time) saw this wonderful magical commercial with little ET all dressed up as Santa and wished upon a midnight star that this game would be in their little laps to play on Christmas day. ONLY TO BE HEART-WRENCHED AND CRYING IN TEARS AFTER PLAYING IT FOR 10 MINUTES, AND BEGGING THEIR PARENTS TO TELL THEM WHY SANTA WOULD LEAVE SUCH AN EVIL EVIL THING IN THEIR STOCKINGS!
That brought back memories.. I liked the ET game though it was frustrating.. Dad still has it in his basement along with the Atari 2600 jr. and other games.
Like if the most recent cinema snob 80's Dan sent you here :)
bsgtrekfan88 1 month ago 3
I rather have coal from the bowles of Hell than this game for christmas
Beltzer0072 4 months ago
Happy Holidays from Atari. We hate you.
CicabeSH 6 months ago
Breaking news: ET the game was the worst metod of turture during all 80s dictotorships.
darkredyanderelord 6 months ago
Only from Atari
bazfanv2 8 months ago in playlist Atari
just in time for christmas, I think I heard that one in most shity games made super fast with lots of bugs
TheIrateFan 9 months ago
There were much, much worse games than E.T. for Atari 2600. Anyone here play the 2600 version of Pac-Man?
richmwill 11 months ago
@richmwill Yes, In fact I just got it for the 2600. When I got E.T. for the 2600 back in '86 my console conked out before I got a chance to even play it. I guess I should be grateful for that.
jesseeinblau 10 months ago
E.T. for Atari. The worst Christmas present ever.
MicroChirp 1 year ago
"You got me the ET video game? What horrible atrocity am I guilty of?! Why couldn't I just get a lump of coal like usual?"
leonel1982 1 year ago 3
thank you for not putting some douchey stamp over the video like the people at retrojunk
Rockulaproductions 1 year ago
they showed the entire game in the commercial! =D
alexp9999 1 year ago
I would have rather gotten a lump of coal for christmas than this pos. At least you can burn coal for heat. This game doesn't even bury good- they had to smash them and pave over them!
chrisz71 1 year ago
damn!! "I" wanted an E.T. for the 2600 for xmas =( i want to waste a whole 5 minutes of my life playing the shittiest game ever devised by man. where can i find a copy?? ebay? clist? hmm...new mexico !!!!!!!
IIIIdepechemodeIIII 1 year ago 3
Poor Kid!... :S
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Atari would never trash the E.T. cartridges. Instead, they would do what Nintendo did to the RadarScope arcades and left-over Mario Paint boxes: recycle for later use. Nintendo reused the RadarScope arcades for the Donkey Kong arcades, while they sold MOTHER 2 in North America as EarthBound while packing them with a Nintendo Power Player's Guide in the left-over Mario Paint boxes. So it would of cost E.T. a lot of money to hire all those diggers and waste the cartridges they could of re-used.
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erhmm well z<.< acctualy nintendo was born during the 84 gamecrash and there were serveral other factors for it aswell. like to many consolles out on the market.. to many copycats.. bad and overproduced games (like pacman and et) so well nintendo was born in a time of much less standard on the videogame ..and : '( stupid gamecrash my dad showed me the atari 2600 in 98 think we still have it up on tha attic :3 nom nom nom ATARI
myheadisbloody 1 year ago
erhmm well z<.< acctualy nintendo was born during the 84 gamecrash and there were serveral other factors for it aswell. like to many consolles out on the market.. to many copycats.. bad and overproduced games (like pacman and et) so well nintendo was born in a time of much less standard on the videogame ..and : '( stupid gamecrash my dad showed me the atari 2600 in 98 think we still have it up on tha attic :3 nom nom nom ATARI
myheadisbloody 1 year ago
top 3 worst games:
1.E.T
2.superman 64
3:action 52
TheRoxasfan 1 year ago 3
blame Warner Communications theyre the ones who owned them at the time and they are to be blamed partically or fully for the '84 Video game crash.
MrBubBa13 2 years ago
Maybe they should have set their sights on another release date - Easter 1983 perhaps? Summer break 1983?
whattheheck1000 2 years ago
This should have been a 1983 released game.
whattheheck1000 2 years ago
I bet that dog died a long time ago. :(
johnjay6370 2 years ago
Probably between 1985 and 1990 sometime.
whattheheck1000 2 years ago
Yeah, I grew up with Atari and didn't think ET was that bad a game...just kinda stupid.
ufo5440 2 years ago
Remember seeing this on TV a LONG time ago...
jethropu 2 years ago
I don't see why so many people hate ET. For an Atari game it isn't that bad.
jimbox114 2 years ago
And you have the game that ruined atari 2600
mrFragaz 2 years ago
noooooo dont do it, ET sucks monkey dick.
nashcollector13 2 years ago
I remember seeing another Christmas
commercial with Atari 2600 systems
being played all over the neighborhood
to the tune of "We Wish You A Merry
Christmas". It had to be from 1981, since
the E.T. commercial was from 1982. I
hope YouTube digs that one out of the
vault very soon. I'd love to see it again.
1980sVideoVault 2 years ago
*kid opens present and see E.T. for the Atari game*
Kid: Cool! ET! Thanks mom and dad!
[Ten Minutes Later]
Kid: This sucks...
*Kid goes to new mexico and buries it.*
Incrediboy2000 2 years ago 19
@Incrediboy2000 what the hell do you know you young idiot. Your dad squirted many of your brother and sisters in your moms mouth before you even were considered when this came out. This was good graphics and game back then. go back to your gay facebook
BlkLIghtning2K 2 months ago
the moment that E.T. put that cartridge in Nolan Bushnell had a heart attack
Supersonic1128 2 years ago
Those kids were bad this year so get ET for Atari for Christmas
numbuh0 2 years ago 2
Where's the Grinch when you need him?
snakes3425 2 years ago 8
All we have so far is E.T.
Bittergamer1886 2 years ago
only from atari, the worst game ever
brickman409 2 years ago 2
wow, flashback!
nicknasty14 2 years ago
it could have been a good game if Howard Warshaw 's fuckig bosses gave him more time. They gave him 6 weeks. The average atari cartridge takes 3-4 months to make and produce 300,000 or more copies. So in six weeks he had to make the game, produce 500,000,000 copies, and ship it out in time for christmas. so blame the creator's bosses
TomCJG 2 years ago 2
They all should be shot for releasing that game... Even by early 80's standards, it was horrible. I hear they buried 1000's of copies of it.... As if I'm not pissed of enough about the 5200 controllers... ;-)
JoshuaTaylor 3 years ago
They burried PacMan cartriges as well.
LikaLaruku 2 years ago
Why do people think ET was so bad? Compared to other 2600 games, it just wasn't the abomination so many people seem to think it was. The fact that they overproduced this game and were forced to dump some half a million copies in a New Mexico landfill does not mean it was necessarily a terrible game. It was just a poor business decision to saturate the market with so many copies.
poshko41 2 years ago 4
Plus ET didn't cause the Videogame crash of 1983. The Videogame crash was already in full steam before the release of ET...
ZoneDaiatlas 2 years ago
@poshko41: I'm glad someone has the courage to say this. ET wasn't that bad of a game. I beat it several times as a kid and it was one of my favorite 2600 cartridges. (Along with Mystic Ark and Airlock).
If people want to play bad Atari 2600 movie license games they ought to try Porky's.
HatsuneForever 2 years ago
That game is worse than coal!
Blackdragon52k 3 years ago
i gave this game to a pawn shop and they gave me $5 for that piece of shit 5 whole bucks!
JonathanPoulsen 3 years ago
They paid you for this game? Wow, you're such a lucky man! XD
Vetuyasha 3 years ago
ya it was thrown out
thehawk0428 3 years ago
Hmmm didnt Atari dump like all undsold ET cartridges on a landfill becuase it sucked so badly?
MalkavianMadness 3 years ago
gota love the cheesy retro ads
BRAKESUK80 3 years ago
actually I have to say the game is good considering that the programmer only had 6 weeks to make it. Normally a game could take 6 months. But overall it is terrible
Videogamehistorian00 3 years ago
Santa E.T.'s like "Ho Ho Ho! I brought CRAP!"
sycoraxrock 3 years ago
No, it was just Santa using his imagination.
For the naughty kids, "E.T." was worse than coal.
Watcher3223 3 years ago 2
Good commercial,bad game
Richard1952Tele 3 years ago
This game was so bad, that almost every copy made was returned to atari, then, they dumped it in a new mexico landfill. I swear to god this is true
resettimanalt 3 years ago
I have heard that too. Many, many copies of this game were literally buried in the ground. I noticed that another person had commented that it was partially responsible for the video game crash of '83. I have also heard that same thing many times. I personally got the game when it came out. I found it difficult to figure out at first, but one day learned how to finish the game. Another person mentioned the Pac Man game for the 2600. Yes, that was an awful port of that game. Possibly the worst.
mikeferr107 3 years ago
Yeah the landfill thing is definitely true, and Pac-Man was buried in it too. It is no doubt the worst port of Pac-Man.
wildmissingno 3 years ago
well like 2 million pac-man anyway. Atari made 12 million when there were only 10 million Atari 2600's and in the end they only managed to get rid of 10 million and that was mainly due to the fact that Pac-Man replaced combat as the pack-in game
Videogamehistorian00 3 years ago
Pac-man was at least playable. But E.T. Was made by atari. ATARI! The company that was dominating the market until nintendo entered the market!
resettimanalt 3 years ago
No, Atari collapsed from the market when Nintendo decided to get in the market.
Nintendo also had a tough time trying to sell their product to retailers because the retailers didn't want to go through the same crap they had endured at the height of video game market's crash. Nintendo had to promise retailers that they would buy back all unsold stock if the NES didn't sell.
Watcher3223 3 years ago
Actually Nintendo hadnt come out yet and the market collapsed well before the NES was released. I remember because I was a teenager back then. The NES revived the market because the games were much closer to their arcade counterparts.
alfabdall 1 year ago 2
I mistyped my reply to "resettimanalt."
I meant to say that Nintendo's entry wasn't the reason for Atari's fall (and when Atari did fall, the NES wasn't available).
And, one reason out of many for the success of the NES was that Nintendo maintained a level of control over software development that Atari did not with the 2600.
Nintendo opted to keep the platform closed and license the right to develop on the system to those willing to do so on Nintendo's terms.
Watcher3223 1 year ago
Atari never recognized the potential for 3rd parties to develop games on their system without their consent, so they never created anything that would allow Atari to protect their own platform, much less enforce conditions for 3rd parties to make games on the 2600.
The biggest fall as a result of this oversight came from Atari losing their lawsuit against Activision.
Under this legal precedent, everyone and their mother started making games for the 2600, flooding the market with bad software.
Watcher3223 1 year ago
I should rephrase what I said: Atari was already down and out even before Nintendo decided to get in the market.
One big reason for Atari's failure was Commodore.
Another was putting too much of a stake in "E.T." and "Pac-Man."
Another was losing their case against Activision, which set a precedent that many companies wanting to cash in making games took advantage of. You had companies like Quaker Oats making bad games, and all the crap drowned out the good games from Activision and Imagic.
Watcher3223 3 years ago
gah adjust the tracking on yur vcr is all wiggley. -_0
WULFY1993 3 years ago
That evil game caused the video game crash of '83. I feel bad for the kids that got the game T_T
Guitarhero87x 3 years ago
I would kick his motherfucker ass out out my fucking house and get a fucking shotgun and shoot his fucking balls. No alien is coming in my house. What a faggot.
GanksterXP 3 years ago
My sisters had this about 10 years ago but we chucked the piece of SHIT out in the bin! :-)
PROD932610 3 years ago
I have a copy. Right now it's about 20 feet to my left on the other side of the JVC TV.
whattheheck1000 3 years ago
My mom (born 1970) loved this game lol
whattheheck1000 3 years ago
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your mom should be shot in her face.
MazterTang 2 years ago
SCREW YOU
whattheheck1000 2 years ago
hey dude, show some respect or get ur face beat in!
nicknasty14 2 years ago
hahahha i would just kick his motherfucker ass out MY HOUSE!!!!
GanksterXP 3 years ago
A generation of kids went back to their Etch-a-sketch's and coloring books after E.T.!
MrCooganO 3 years ago
Atari buried about 5 million odd unsold E.T. cartridges in a landfill in the New Mexico desert, plus another 5 million other unsold cartridges which were primarily PacMan.
alternatereality85 3 years ago
God that sucks so badly Id rather get a book than an atari with ET fuck
Imfraggablekrunk 3 years ago
"Happy Holidays from Atari... you little bastards."
madgasser01 3 years ago
i rather get a turd than E.T. and the kids parents must really hate them
stephenharperbest2 3 years ago
How would the parents know how it was? It was the first movie based game.
TenguGuy 3 years ago
The dang comercial makes it seem like the game is the shit, but it IS a piece of freaken SHIT!!! You first see it under a christmas tree, and sooner or later they see it buried in new mexico.
FantomNX 3 years ago 2
I bet ET threw the game into the fire during the first 5 minutes of game play.
DrSage207 3 years ago
it looks like on the game all he does is walk around in circles.
IzzybiffH 3 years ago
haha I'd be pretty pissed if someone brought E.T. for Christmas.
Bad enough I do own the game anyway, aye at least it wasn't a Christmas present.
notyoursavior78 3 years ago
I don't think I would smile as a kid if I walked downstairs and saw a mutant with fingers like that playing with my joystick!
Twizzledoc187 3 years ago
LMAO! What a sad christmas day for those kids. What's more disturbing is that their dog didn't bother warning them about this extraterestrial wandering into their unlocked home, letting the warm air out of the house, allowing that blizzrd snow in and not wiping his feet.
Twizzledoc187 3 years ago 6
Funny comment, Twizzledoc.
TheCanadianPrairies 3 years ago
God knows how bad those kids are to be punished THAT badly!
viton247 3 years ago
That game was really slow and boring. It sucked, just like the ET bicycle.
Populargyrl 3 years ago
You know why E.T.'s health gets so bad in the movie E.T.? It's not because of Earth's atmosphere, it's because Elliot made him play that shitty game.
1Hol1Tiger 3 years ago 18
lol! nice.
Daviniel 3 years ago
Lol.
TheCanadianPrairies 3 years ago
man imagine having that games as a present for cristmhas XD
zombie595 3 years ago
AHAHA that would be like hell xD
LikeEminem 3 years ago
Et video Game = Lump of coal
Basssinger86 3 years ago 3
GTA 4 is better.
NOT!!
PAC-MAN IS GOD! :D
PERIOD! HATS DOWN!
crazynintendoguy 3 years ago
too bad they couldn't improve on the game. It would have been so cool to play as E.T. and enjoy it. I mean for freaks sake people you are playing as E.T.!
tem1974 3 years ago
et go home
jjoshuaa99 3 years ago 4
Lol!!!!!
LastStarfighter 3 years ago
"Quick! We have to kick that mutant ET of the planet in time for Christmas or the holidays will be ruined!"
They obviously failed when this game was released.
Yoshark777 3 years ago 4
just as the AVGN puts it
fuck that shitty game
TheSoulGamer 3 years ago 2
the kids would probably cryonce they tryed the game
SPARTANGDF 3 years ago
por ese juego quebró atari?
incognita43 3 years ago
those kids will be pretty sad when they play that game
ganonman123 3 years ago
ET Was all like
ET Fuck dis piece of crap.
gogleman374 3 years ago
ET (after playing his own game): ET phone lawyer
snakes3425 3 years ago 5
good commercial
bad game
pieman19 3 years ago 3
brings a tear to my eyes!!! how friggin classic can you get!!! THANK YOU!!!
LarryRusso67 3 years ago 2
this game was shit..........so shit,u may as well not even call it a game!!!!
holabalooser 4 years ago
Wow, not only does this commercial guilt you into a buying this piece of shit but it's not even a remotely GOOD game!! Sadly I own 2 copies of it..both given as gifts
Pgalaga 4 years ago
Just looking at that commercial it reminds me of the good ole days. Believing in santa, waking up to see all the presents up under the tree, It was so good being a kid! I hope one day I will have the chance to share the moments and love with my kids. The 80's was the best!!!!
StreetCompetition 4 years ago 2
exactly, waking up to open my playstation when i was 4 (i was a smart 4 year old, dont ask), 90s was better.
Schwartzwald663 4 years ago
Wow, those kids must have done something really bad to get E.T. I'm afraid to find out what they did to deserve that!
sobeAdam 4 years ago
hahahahahahahaah they must be bad kids ahha santa brought them a piece of shit
haterLM 4 years ago
E.T is like wow my game sucks
akumatiti 4 years ago
that mofo broke into their house
Cyclonus21 4 years ago 7
Me Love E.T.
xtimemachinex 4 years ago
ruining gamer's lifes forever, and destorying christmas...that's atari.
ZenKen6 4 years ago
deppressing holidays, from atari
atocombabaya 4 years ago 2
too bad they buried over a million of these carts (amoung others) in a Landfill in New Mexico....
delfmeek 4 years ago 2
how is that too bad? its a dead game move on
shakamabamXD 4 years ago
LMAO...I remember that commercial, when it was actually being aired and not some documentary...LOL
armybeef68 4 years ago
reasons why ET is the crappiest game in the universe:
1) it has almost no sound!
2) everything looks crappy
3) you always fall into the stupid ditch
4) you die by time
5) over all, once you figure out the game, it takes you about 3 minutes to beat it -_-
xXwhitexshadowXx 4 years ago 5
seriously i have the game and it is the WORST of all games
hihiman 4 years ago 4
ET is the king of all crappy games
movie=big hit movie
game=big horrid mothr fuckn game out of a beaner's dick
crazynintendoguy 4 years ago
Atari had to bury millions of E.T carts in a New Mexico desert landfill because they wouldn't sell.
HobbyistX 4 years ago 2
If E.T came in and started playing that piece of crap in my house,I would let him keep it and tell him to get me an NES for that game. That game sucked frozen dog terds.
wiifan135 4 years ago 3
The kids thought it was Santa. They probably vomited when they found out it was E.T.
wiifan135 4 years ago 5
This game sets bad examples for kids. The FBI agent and Doctor are both perverts. Have you seen when they rape ET?!
stevenup7002 4 years ago
Ever played Raiders of the Lost Ark? A shady man with a wide hat steals your stuff and sometimes it looks like he's raping you. It's really funny, but it's a bad game.
VoltageControlled 4 years ago
One of my favorite '80s Christmas commercials of all time!
Herald8 4 years ago
to get it "just in time for christmas" the idiot who programmed it did it in 5 WEEKS.
1000huzzahs 4 years ago
The "idiot who programmed it"? You do know who programmed it right? It's more like the genius who somehow managed to work magic enough to squeeze that out of five weeks when anyone else would have simply released a crap game like "Gremlins 2600". But yeah, sure, I'm sure reading about it from Gamespot entitles you to call the programmer of Yars Revenge and Raiders of the Lost Arc an idiot. Idiot.
thenamecolinwastaken 4 years ago 3
gremlins 2600 is a much better game than ET IMO. Shooting gremlins 3rd person shooter style is MUCH better than falling in holes over and over. HSW ruled except for ET
grimbasement 3 years ago
I saw in a documentary when the programmers who founded Activision left Atari the next pack of games who sold Atari were garbage (ET, Raiders of...) but some people liked them.
RegioGeorge 4 years ago
Good commercial for a terrible game. But if it wasn't for the 1983/4 video game crash, The NES might never of been a hit. I guess sometimes bad things lead to good things.
ChristianWithNES 4 years ago 4
I think your on to something.....
wiifan135 4 years ago 2
What you don't see in the ad is the deleted scene of E.T. screaming "STOP FALLING INTO THE FUCKING HOLES CONSTNALTY!!!", before bursting into tears after realising the magnitude of his selling out-ness.
ScrewAttackEurope 4 years ago
I HATED that game! I kept falling into that damned hole, and couldn't get out!
TheGrooviestGuru 4 years ago
bahahaha same here, kept falling down the hole and would get angry as a kid...that thing's probably a collector's item now.
kirk1968 4 years ago
lol if E.T. came in my house like that i would beat the shit out of him
wiihome 4 years ago 7
Like he was Santa Claus' most retarded elf!!!
Zoloft77 4 years ago 2
The game was actually a challenge with the difficulty on hardest (FBI Agent on, Scientist on), but I feel sick when I think how many 1982 dollars my parents shelled out for it.
FurryMuscleBear 4 years ago
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Houminid 4 years ago
Its funny how the comercial keeps bragging about that total peice of $#@*.
Hyperstorm2 4 years ago
So beautiful. This game is actually quite good. Look up on youtube "How To Beat Home Video Games E.T."
pacman5698 4 years ago
Worst video game of all time, promptly and permanently removed from my collection.
I'd rather have janitorial duties at the Special Olympics than ever play that game again.
iluvmyveedub 4 years ago
stupid commercial and stupid game FUCKIN HORRIBLE!!!
fanOTHL 4 years ago
E.T stole christmas
sonicfan87 4 years ago
Brings back great memories!!
fiwaszewski 4 years ago
Wow....I so wanna re edit this...
The game was the cause of the video game crash...>_<
otakumike2006 4 years ago
I got an atari for £30 in 1983 from my dad. I don't remember that game (er, thankfully I think!) hadn't heard much about it before. What was the atari crash thing in 1983?
teaface1976 4 years ago
Haha, the music is nostalgic. :(
Drular 4 years ago
Even in the early 80's, they were forcing that "Happy Holidays" garbage down our throats. Sad ain't it?
LondonOntGuy 4 years ago 2
This commercial could sell anything, Perfect locale: Christmas tree, dog laying by fireplace, snow falling HEAVLY outside, whimsical music, early 80's time period, . . where was I?
alicebrunswick 4 years ago
I remember that one...Can't believe people bought and played those games...just horrible...
jethropu 4 years ago
I remember getting Pac Man for the 2600 and being soooo
pissed off at it that I sold my whole system for $25 and used the money to play the REAL Pac Man at the arcade, what a waste of a recreation.
puppyindallas 4 years ago
if i opened a chrismis gift and i saw ET as 1 of my presents OMG some1s gonna get hurt
tc294 4 years ago
God, what an awful piece of shit that game was. Unfortunately, it led the way for hundreds of other shitty games based on movies.
MikeTaylorLives 4 years ago
E.T. was one of the two games infamous for the videogame crash of 1983 causing a hiatus in the US videogaming industry. Well, some people claim that the crash never happened, but even those people agree that E.T. bought down Atari. Way to go Atari, manufacturing all those ET games, which later became nothing more than landfill in Alamogordo, New Mexico.
elyen1969 4 years ago
So I take it 2600 Pac-Man was the other one I take it? I'm too young to remember the crash of 1983, as I was still a young little sapling...
LondonOntGuy 4 years ago
That video game actually was pretty bad, but phenominal for a five-week programming time period. I admire this game because of how fast it was done. If anyone else could do a whole game from scratch in only 25 business days, let me know. Great commercial!
FionaTheFox 4 years ago
hmmmm......
Metalwario64 4 years ago
Happy Holidays from Atari.
If they said that now someone would drive by and throw cat shit at them.
Keaton2008 4 years ago
"the video game that all you stupid gullible kids will buy just because it says E.T on the front"
foottothenuts 4 years ago
I actually liked that game, alot.
richmwill 4 years ago
Oh man. Seeing this almost gave me an aneurysm! Wow talk about a total forgotten memory flooding back on you. I remember watching this when I was so young, I didn't even know what they where selling, just that ET was in it.
m1rock 5 years ago
Those two walking down the stairs look like they are happy to come and kick E.T. out of the house, while planning to take the E.T. cartridge and put it in a toaster.
parrothead1983 5 years ago
This brought back memories of my ex-girlfriend. She had an E.T. finger that was also a vibrator. I hate her more than I hate this game.
wolverinejason 5 years ago
LOLOL HAHAHA something bout that sentence made me laugh my ass off
ThotdFan127 4 years ago
LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL
Sabocalypse 4 years ago
I loved that game. Unfairly ripped on. One of the only Atari games that actually had a point and an ending.
madmadhatter 5 years ago
What a beautiful commercial. I'll bet many many little children (myself included at the time) saw this wonderful magical commercial with little ET all dressed up as Santa and wished upon a midnight star that this game would be in their little laps to play on Christmas day. ONLY TO BE HEART-WRENCHED AND CRYING IN TEARS AFTER PLAYING IT FOR 10 MINUTES, AND BEGGING THEIR PARENTS TO TELL THEM WHY SANTA WOULD LEAVE SUCH AN EVIL EVIL THING IN THEIR STOCKINGS!
TatteredDreamFilm 5 years ago 2
LMAO!!!!
xXwhitexshadowXx 4 years ago
thats really sad how that game was such a big flop, it destroyed kids lives.. good comercial tho
RobSteez 5 years ago
I know it was bad, but it didn't distroy their lives did it?
xXwhitexshadowXx 4 years ago
That brought back memories.. I liked the ET game though it was frustrating.. Dad still has it in his basement along with the Atari 2600 jr. and other games.
sharonruth7 5 years ago
How is it a happy holiday if you get that game? Hahaha.
MegaTrickster 5 years ago
Well say LOL!!
timedasher 5 years ago