E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
Developer(s)	Atari
Publisher(s)	Atari
Distributor(s)	Atari
Designer(s)	Howard Scott Warshaw
Release date(s)	1982
Genre(s)	Adventure
Mode(s)	Single player
Platform(s)	Atari 2600
Media	16Kb ROM cartridge
Input	Atari joystick

E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial is a video game developed by Howard Scott Warshaw based on the film of the same name and released by Atari for the Atari 2600 video game system in 1982. It is widely considered a paradigm of marketing greed: a poorly produced, rushed game that Atari thought would sell well based purely on brand loyalty to the names of Atari and E.T.^[1] Instead, the game fared horribly and cost Atari millions of US dollars. E.T. is seen by many as the death knell for Atari and is widely regarded as one of the worst video games ever produced as well as one of the biggest commercial failures in video gaming history. The game's great failure became a major contributing factor of the video game crash of 1983. Hundreds of thousands of excess cartridges had to be crushed and dumped in a landfill in Alamogordo, New Mexico. Image File history File links Etvideogamecover. ... A video game developer is a software developer (a business or an individual) that creates computer or video games. ... For the concept Atari (当たり) in the board game of Go, see Atari (go term). ... Video game publishers are companies that publish video games that they have either developed internally or have had developed by a video game developer. ... A game designer is a person who designs games. ... Howard Scott Warshaw is a former game designer who worked for Atari in the early 1980s, where he designed and programed the games Yars Revenge, Raiders of the Lost Ark, and the infamous flop, E.T. He has also written two books and directed two video documentaries. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_the_United_States. ... 1982 1982 in games 1981 in video gaming 1983 in video gaming Notable events of 1982 in computer and video games. ... This is a listing of computer and video game genres with brief descriptions and examples from each genre. ... Adventure is a genre of video game typified by exploration, puzzle-solving, interaction with game characters, and a focus on narrative rather than reflex-based challenges. ... In computer games and video games, single-player refers to the variant of a particular game where input from only one player is expected throughout the course of the gaming session. ... The Atari 2600, released in 1977, is the first successful video game console to use plug-in cartridges instead of having one or more games built in. ... In a variety of electronic equipments, a cartridge (in video game terms, cart, game pack, or Game Pak) can be one method of programming different functionality, providing variable content, or a method by which consumables may be replenished. ... For other uses, see Joystick (disambiguation). ... This article is about computer and video games. ... Howard Scott Warshaw is a former game designer who worked for Atari in the early 1980s, where he designed and programed the games Yars Revenge, Raiders of the Lost Ark, and the infamous flop, E.T. He has also written two books and directed two video documentaries. ... E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial is an Academy Award-winning 1982 science fiction film directed by Steven Spielberg that tells the story of a young boy, Elliott, who befriends an alien being called E.T. stranded on Earth and trying to find his way home. ... For the concept Atari (当たり) in the board game of Go, see Atari (go term). ... The Atari 2600, released in 1977, is the first successful video game console to use plug-in cartridges instead of having one or more games built in. ... A video game console is a dedicated electronic machine designed to play video games. ... 1982 1982 in games 1981 in video gaming 1983 in video gaming Notable events of 1982 in computer and video games. ... In marketing, Brand loyalty is the strongest measure of a brands value, it can be demonstrated by repeated buying of a product or service, of a good word of mouth and advocation of a product or service. ... Games are considered to be the worst ever for various reasons, including exceptionally poor graphics or music, a clichéd or stereotypical premise and storyline, a poor user interface, or what is perceived to be poor gameplay. ... The computer and video games industry has seen several commercial failures since its birth in the late 1970s, some of which have drastically changed the video game market. ... E.T. for the Atari 2600. ... In a variety of electronic equipments, a cartridge (in video game terms, cart, game pack, or Game Pak) can be one method of programming different functionality, providing variable content, or a method by which consumables may be replenished. ... Landfill is a waste disposal site for the deposit of the waste onto or into land including: internal waste disposal sites (i. ... Alamogordo is a city located in Otero County, New Mexico, United States of America. ... Official language(s) None Capital Santa Fe Largest city Albuquerque Area  Ranked 5th  - Total 121,665 sq. ...

Gameplay

The gameplay of E.T. consists of maneuvering the fictional alien character E.T. through several screens to obtain the three pieces necessary to assemble a device to "phone home". The phone pieces can be obtained by finding them scattered randomly in various wells (pits) or the player can collect nine Reese's Pieces and then "call Elliot," who will then bring him a phone piece. Additionally, the player must avoid an FBI agent and scientist in pursuit. If either enemy catches E.T., the player is carried to the Washington D.C. screen. If the FBI agent catches E.T. he also will lose all collected phone pieces (or Reese's Pieces if no phone pieces have been collected). The difficulty setting can be changed with the game select and left and right difficulty switches located on the console. This will either change the number of humans present, the speed of movement of the humans, or the conditions needed to call the spaceship. A fictional character is any person who appears in a work of fiction. ... In popular fiction and conspiracy theories, life forms, especially intelligent life forms, that are of extraterrestrial origin, i. ... The telephone or phone (Greek: tele = far away and phone = voice) is a telecommunications device which is used to transmit and receive sound (most commonly voice and speech) across distance. ... Reeses Pieces Bag of Reeses Pieces Reeses Pieces are a kind of peanut butter candy. ... The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is the federal criminal investigative and intelligence agency, which is the principal investigative arm of the United States Department of Justice (DOJ). ... The physicist Albert Einstein is probably historys most widely recognized scientist. ... Trinomial name Homo sapiens sapiens Linnaeus, 1758 Humans, or human beings, are bipedal primates belonging to the mammalian species Homo sapiens (Latin for wise man or knowing man) under the family Hominidae (the great apes). ... Ariane 5 lifts off with the Rosetta probe on 2nd of March, 2004. ...

E.T. is also given a limited supply of energy and starts the game with 9999 points. Any action, including movement, depletes the energy. E.T. can use Reese's Pieces at an "eat candy" spot and press the button to replenish energy. If E.T. reaches zero energy he will turn white and die. Three times per game, Elliot will then appear to revive E.T by "merging" with him, letting the player continue with 1500 points. Locating and reviving a wilted flower adds an extra revival from Elliot. If E.T. dies more times than Eilliot can revive him, the game ends. When bacteria or fungi clog a plants water-conducting or vascular system, they can cause permanent wilting and death. ... Clivia miniata right hereflowers. ...

E.T. levitating out of one of the many wells in the game. The other object pictured is a phone piece. The icon on the top bar of the screen shows what action can be taken by pressing the controller button (in this case, levitation).

Four of the six screens are riddled with wells of varying size that E.T. falls into if he gets too close, causing him to lose some energy. In order to get out, the player must levitate E.T. by pressing the controller button and tilting the joystick forward. Since phone pieces and wilted flowers are found at the bottom of wells, this often leads to the majority of the game consisting of players intentionally falling into wells in order to complete the round. Image File history File links ET2600-Pit. ... Image File history File links ET2600-Pit. ... For other uses, see Joystick (disambiguation). ...

Once E.T. has all three phone pieces, the player may press the controller button at a "call ship zone." This causes a timer to appear and count down the time E.T. has to arrive at the landing zone. In most cases, E.T. cannot call his ship when a human is present (lower dificulty levels will allow it). Once the player finds the landing zone they may press the controller button again to call the ship. If no humans are present when the timer has run out, the ship will appear and pick E.T. up. This will end that round of play. The player is then given bonus points based on how many Reese's Pieces he has left and may continue playing for another round. Aside from bonus points earned, all rounds are functionally identical and do not increase in difficulty with play. A timer is a specialized type of clock. ...

Production and sales

Interested in cashing in on the popularity of the movie E.T., Steve Ross, the CEO of Warner Communications (who owned Atari at the time), talked to Steven Spielberg and acquired the licensing rights for the abnormally high price of either 22 or 25 million dollars.^[2][3] Atari CEO Ray Kassar's response to Ross' query of how he liked the idea of making an E.T. based video game was, "I think it's a dumb idea. We've never really made an action game out of a movie."^[3] Ultimately though, the decision was not Kassar's to make, and the deal went through. The programming of the game was then assigned to Howard Scott Warshaw, whom Spielberg requested due to his previous, successful programming of the Raiders of the Lost Ark video game.^[2] Spielberg's idea was to make E.T. into a Pac-Man-type game which Warshaw rejected to try a more original idea, a move he would later regret.^[4] Warshaw attributes most of E.T.'s poor quality to the unreasonably short deadline to ship on September 1 in order to coincide with the 1982 Christmas shopping season.^[5] This left only five weeks to get E.T. ready.^[2] For comparison, Warshaw's previous works, Yars' Revenge and Raiders of the Lost Ark, each took, respectively, 4 to 5 months and 6 to 7 months to complete.^[5] For UK Politician Steve Ross see: Stephen Ross (politician) For the US finance theorist see: Stephen Ross (economist) Steve Ross is a director from Memphis, Tennessee. ... A chief executive officer (CEO), or chief executive, is the highest-ranking corporate officer or executive officer of a corporation, or agency. ... Warner Communications, formerly Kinney National Company, was the parent company for Warner Bros. ... Steven Allan Spielberg, KBE (born December 18, 1946) is an American film director. ... This article is about general United States currency. ... Raymond E. Kassar (born January 2, 1928) was president, and later CEO, of Atari from 1978 to 1983. ... Howard Scott Warshaw is a former game designer who worked for Atari in the early 1980s, where he designed and programed the games Yars Revenge, Raiders of the Lost Ark, and the infamous flop, E.T. He has also written two books and directed two video documentaries. ... This article is about a video game for the Atari 2600 video game console. ... Pac-Man is an arcade game developed by Namco and licensed for distribution by Midway Games in 1979. ... September 1 is the 244th day of the year (245th in leap years). ... Christmas is a Christian holiday held on December 25 which celebrates the birth of Jesus Christ. ... Yars Revenge is a video game developed for the Atari 2600. ...

E.T. meets Elliot. Note the many wells (darker colored ground), Reese's Pieces (black dot between E.T. and Elliot), and the "JD" Easter egg (object to the right on the upper bar).

E.T. is also notable for being the first video game to "credit" a graphics artist, with the initials of E.T.'s artist, Jerome Domurat, being hidden as an Easter egg.^[6] Howard Scott Warshaw also had his initials hidden as an easter egg, but by this point, programmers having their names hidden as easter eggs had become somewhat commonplace and thus is not as notable. Image File history File links ET2600-JD.png‎ // Summary Screenshot of E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial. ... Image File history File links ET2600-JD.png‎ // Summary Screenshot of E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial. ... A game artist is responsible for all of the aspects of game development that calls for visual art. ... A virtual Easter egg is a hidden message or feature in an object such as a movie, book, CD, DVD, computer program, or video game. ...

With a rushed game in hand, Atari anticipated enormous sales based on the popularity of the film and produced too many copies of the game with no test marketing. While the game did sell well (it ranks as the eighth best selling Atari cartridge of all time)^[5], it was only able to sell approximately 1.5 million of its 4 million cartridge stock.^[5] It is an often stated bit of misinformation that more copies of E.T. were produced than Atari 2600 consoles owned; in reality, company research by Atari showed that about 10 million consoles were owned in May 1982 (the actual game that produced more games than consoles available was Pac-Man with 12 million copies).^[7] Even with this being false, the massive amount of unsold merchandise coupled with the expensive movie license caused E.T. to be a massive financial failure for Atari. Film refers to the celluloid media on which movies are printed. ... 1982 (MCMLXXXII) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ...

This game was one of many bad decisions that led to the bankruptcy of Atari, which posted a $536 million loss in 1983, and was divided and sold in 1984.^[8] It is also seen as one of two major video game releases (along with the Atari 2600 version of Pac-Man) that sparked the video game crash of 1983. The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view. ... Atari Games was an American producer of arcade games, and originally part of Atari Inc. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... E.T. for the Atari 2600. ...

Critical response

E.T. has been almost universally panned by critics and gamers. The most common complaint is the tedious repetitiveness of falling into holes coupled with the additional hassle of it being too easy to fall back into a hole once out. Other complaints include the frustration of losing phone pieces to the FBI agent, poor graphics, and the story given in the manual being inane, a departure from the serious tone of the movie. X-Play logo X-Play (previously Gamespot TV and Extended Play) is a video game review television show hosted by Adam Sessler and Morgan Webb. ... The current version of the article or section reads like an advertisement. ... MobowlGames is a website devoted to cataloging bowl cut and bowl cut videos, both past and present. ... GameFAQs is a popular gaming website that has hosted FAQs and walkthroughs for gamers since November 1995. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... GameSpot is a website that was launched in June of 1996 by Pete Deemer, Vince Broady, and Jon Epstein. ... AtariAge is a website devoted to the video game company, Atari. ...

"What do I do now? The only one I can trust is that nice little alien-- Ellleeott. He gives me those tasty energy pills (What did he call them? Reeessseess Peeesssesss?)"
― Excerpt from E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial's manual

Ironically, the title screen is often described as being the "best part of the game".^[17]

"The worst video game of all time"

The title screen: "The best part of the game."

E.T. is one of the most commonly chosen candidates for worst video game of all time by gamers and is often brought up in any discussion of "worst game ever". This viewpoint was most famously made by Seanbaby when he ranked it #1 in a list of the 20 worst games of all time in Electronic Gaming Monthly's 150th issue.^[18] Michael Dolan, deputy editor of FHM magazine, has also ranked it as his pick for the #1 worst video game of all time.^[19] Additionally, G4 Tech TV show X-Play's score of 0 out of 5 was the lowest grade they have ever given a game in the show's history and another G4 Tech TV show, Filter, picked E.T. as #1 in their "Top 10 Biggest Flops of All Time" countdown. Image File history File links ET2600-TheBestPart. ... Image File history File links ET2600-TheBestPart. ... Games are considered to be the worst ever for various reasons, including exceptionally poor graphics or music, a clichéd or stereotypical premise and storyline, a poor user interface, or what is perceived to be poor gameplay. ... Seanbaby (aka Sean Reiley) directs a cynical comedy website based in the United States. ... Cover for issue number 203: Too Human. ... The cover of the first issue of FHM in the United States, featuring Rachael Leigh Cook The cover of an issue of FHM Philippines, featuring Angel Locsin The cover of an issue of FHM China, featuring Britney Spears The cover of an issue of FHM Russia, featuring Alsou The cover... G4 (TV channel) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia /**/ @import /skins-1. ... X-Play logo X-Play (previously Gamespot TV and Extended Play) is a video game review television show hosted by Adam Sessler and Morgan Webb. ... Filters logo, after the 2005 revamp. ...

Other views

However, E.T.'s title of "worst video game of all time" is largely influenced by its notorious failure, which in turn was influenced by high expectations. When compared objectively to other, less infamous Atari 2600 duds, E.T. is often thought to be "not that bad". Among communities that have played a wide variety of Atari 2600 games, titles such as Karate, Skeet Shoot, and Sssnake are more often chosen as being the worst game for the Atari 2600,^[20][21] sometimes with E.T. not even making such "worst of the Atari 2600" lists.^[22] A small minority of people even go beyond the "bad but not the worst" stance and admit to genuinely enjoying the game.^[23] Howard Scott Warshaw himself doesn't show any regrets for E.T. and feels he did a good job on the game. Karate is video game for the Atari 2600 produced by Froggo. ... Skeet Shoot is skeet shooting video game for the Atari 2600 produced by Apollo. ... Sssnake is video game for the Atari 2600 produced by Data Age. ...

But the fact is E.T. was a tough technical challenge that I feel I met reasonably well. I made that game start-to-finish in five weeks. No one has ever come close to matching that kind of output on the VCS. It could definitely be a better game ;), but it's not too bad for five weeks.

That said, I also realize that consumers don't (and shouldn't) care about development time. All they should care about is the playing experience. I feel E.T. is a complete and OK game. Some people like it. It certainly isn't the worst game or even the least polished, but I actually like having the distinction of it being the worst game. Between that and Yar's, I have the greatest range of anyone ever on the machine :)
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The Atari landfill

The legend and its veracity

Photo of the Atari landfill taken from an Alamogordo Daily News article.

There is an urban legend that Atari, stuck with tons of unsellable merchandise, secretly buried the millions of unsold E.T. cartridges in a desert landfill in New Mexico. For years very little printed evidence was known to exist and many, including Howard Scott Warshaw,^[24] considered the legend to be a hoax. Recently however, evidence in the form of articles from the Alamogordo Daily News have surfaced to give the legend some newfound credibility; the articles show that the Atari landfill almost certainly does exist in some form. A few points of the legend, such as the activity being conducted as a secret (removal of stock is a normal business practice and no efforts were made to cover it up), have been shown to be false, but for the large part most of the legend appears to be true. Some details of the event however, such as the number of E.T. cartridges buried, remain a gray area. If Warshaw's memory is to be believed though, it is clearly less than the often cited number of five million, as Warshaw has stated that only about four million copies were even made.^[5] Image File history File links AtariLandfill. ... Image File history File links AtariLandfill. ... Urban legends are a kind of folklore consisting of stories often thought to be factual by those circulating them (see rumor). ... Official language(s) None Capital Santa Fe Largest city Albuquerque Area  Ranked 5th  - Total 121,665 sq. ... A hoax is an attempt to trick an audience into believing that something false is real. ...

The confirmed story

In September of 1983, between ten and twenty^[25] semi-trailer truckloads of Atari boxes, cartridges, and systems from an Atari storehouse in El Paso were crushed and buried at the landfill in Alamogordo, New Mexico. It was Atari's first dealings with the landfill, which was chosen because no scavenging was allowed and its garbage was crushed and buried nightly. Atari's stated reason for the burial was that they were changing from Atari 2600 to Atari 5200 games^[26] but this was later contradicted by a worker who claimed that this was not the case.^[27] Official Bruce Enten stated that Atari was mostly sending broken and returned cartridges to the Alamogordo dump and that it was "by-and-large inoperable stuff."^[28] semi-trailer truck with sleeper behind the cab. ... Flag Seal Nickname: Star of the Southwest and Land of the Sun Location Location in the state of Texas Coordinates , Government County El Paso County Mayor John Cook Geographical characteristics Area     City 250. ... Landfill is a waste disposal site for the deposit of the waste onto or into land including: internal waste disposal sites (i. ... Alamogordo is a city located in Otero County, New Mexico, United States of America. ... Official language(s) None Capital Santa Fe Largest city Albuquerque Area  Ranked 5th  - Total 121,665 sq. ... The Atari 5200 is a video game console introduced in 1982 by Atari. ...

Starting on September 27, a layer of cement was poured on top of the crushed materials, a rare occurrence in waste disposal. An anonymous workman's stated reason for the concrete was: "There are dead animals down there. We wouldn't want any children to get hurt digging in the dump."^[29] Cement is a material used for bonding other materials together, and as a binder in concrete. ... Pouring a concrete floor for a commercial building, (slab-on-grade) Installing rebar in a floor slab during a concrete pour For other uses, see Concrete (disambiguation). ...

Eventually, however, the city began to protest the large amount of dumping Atari was doing; a sentiment summed up by commissioner Guy Gallaway with "we don't want to be an industrial waste dump for El Paso,"^[30] and local manager Jack Keating ordered the dumping to be ended. Due to Atari's unpopular dumping, an Emergency Management Act was later passed and created the Emergency Management Task Force to limit the future flexibility of the garbage contractor to secure outside business for the landfill for monetary purposes. Mayor Henry Pacelli commented that, "we do not want to see something like this happen again."^[31] To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... A mayor (from the Latin māior, meaning larger,greater) is in modern times the title of the highest ranking municipal officer, who discharges certain judicial and administrative functions, in many systems an elected politician, who serves as chief executive and/or ceremonial official of many types of municipalities. ...

Explanations for the destruction

Note: These theories are speculative, as a former Atari employee has yet to step forth with an explanation.

One of the most common arguments against the legend is that it would be too expensive and impractical for Atari to dump the cartridges and that it would be more logical to attempt to sell them at a low price or to recycle the materials. However, this probably was not the case for two reasons:

The first reason is that the E.T. cartridges were irrevocably written in non-rewriteable EPROM cartridges with flawed game designs. This means that the cartridges could not be reused for other games.^[32] EPROM. The small quartz window admits UV light during erasure. ...

The second reason is that it was likely done as an inventory maneuver in order to get a tax write-off. By throwing all of their excess merchandise away, they were able to avoid paying taxes on them. If they had kept them in storage, they would have had to pay taxes on millions of useless games. It was because of Atari's floundering financial situation that they could not afford to wait for the games to be sold even at liquidated prices and got rid of the games as quickly as possible. Additional considerations such as storage costs for keeping the dead weight also must be taken into consideration. In accounting, writing off is the expensing of a balance sheet asset that has no future benefits. ...

All totaled, the entire process couldn't have taken more than tens of thousands of dollars, virtually nothing for a (short lived) billion-dollar company,^[32] and likely saved them even more. But it was still not enough to save them from their inevitable collapse during the following year.

In popular culture

Screenshot from Wintergreen's "When I Wake Up" music video showing the excavation of a quantity of E.T. games.

The legend of E.T.'s mass burial has sparked the imaginations of gamers for years and has led to fantastical depictions of trips off into the desert in search of the Atari landfill. Image File history File links WhenIWakeUp1. ... Image File history File links WhenIWakeUp1. ...

• In the same episode in which they reviewed the game, X-Play hosts Adam Sessler and Morgan Webb ventured into the New Mexico desert in search of the missing cartridges in a parody of the movie Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.[1]
• The indie rock band Wintergreen released a music video for their song "When I Wake Up" that retells the legend of the mass burial of E.T. cartridges.[2] The music video is an idealistic imagination of the Atari landfill story, with the cartridges being simply buried in the middle of the desert in relatively pristine condition.

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See also

• Video game crash of 1983
• List of commercial failures in computer and video gaming
• List of video games considered the worst ever

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External links

• Page at AtariAge
• Entry at #13 of 1UP.com's "The 50 Most Important Games Ever Made"
• Entry at #19 of Gamespy's "The Top 25 Dumbest Moments in Gaming"
• Entry at #1 of Seanbaby's "The 20 Worst Video Games of All Time."
• E.T.'s Tomb in the Desert of New Mexico: The Great Atari Landfill Controversy