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What was the worst game adapation of a movie you have ever played? (piefed.social)
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[–] 39 points 7 months ago (5 children)

I never played it, but E.T. The Extraterrestrial caused the near death of the entire video game industry

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E.T._the_Extra-Terrestrial_(video_game)#Effect_on_Atari

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago

    While it certainly was a bad game it didn’t destroy the gaming industry in the US. It’s a great symbol and was one of the many symptoms (lots of bad games) that got a lot of people fired ..

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago*

    I don't want to sound cliche but yeah. E.T.

    And there are people saying that they immediately knew it was bad. Not me. I played it for a stupid long time. When I was 12 I would play any video game for as long as I could. And I remember screen after screen of just terrible, unimaginative redundant gameplay and wondering if I was doing it wrong...

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

    E.T. was such a bad game. I still have my copy. What's funny is that at one point I ended up with two copies because one of my friends left their copy at my house, but no one would claim it so I have no idea which friend it was (four of us owned a 2600). I can think of nothing more damning of a game than this example.

    Edit: In case anyone wants to see what a surviving copy looks like, here is mine https://imgur.com/a/bcDxAbt

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