E.T. the Extra Terresrtial
Lets get one thing straight, you might think that one shouldn't care about a game that was made probably before most people making this thread were actually alive this just shows its level of hideousness. You get plopped into the middle of a screen without any clue as to the point or purpos. Now in most Atari games its just a test to see how high of a score you can get, E.T. however says screw that lets put an arbitray number at the bottom of the screen and thats your, life seriously thats it. Meanwhile people (and being an Atari game I use the term loosely) are trying to capture you as you skillfully try to evade them. However there is a major flaw in that all other characters are faster than you plus for no aparent reason you fall into holes, this creates the most frusterating part of the entire game. After falling into a hole you lose som I think 500 points and are forced to try and escape up the sides the problem is that if you choose the wrong side you'll just end up back in the hole as the sprite for the hole is twice as long as you are. And then when your points are up thats it the game ends. There is a reason Atari threw all the remaining E.T. cartriges in a landfill and then paid $2 million dollars to have the landfill cemented over after some kids found the cartiges the game was that bad!
