Inside the Worst Video Game Ever

Hey if people keep talking about it in a certain way then that alone makes it good in a way

Ow2 exists

Ok, I get he only had five weeks … But did he not let one person other than himself play it before release ? Surely someone would have told him it was complete 💩

I honestly think this game should get a remake.

zelda i and ii is a ride through the park in comparison of the raiders of the lost ark

I played this game as a kid. I genuinely enjoyed it. The haters never read the manual.

This never aged well

They he that same guy could make a game that uses the hide and seek points on the new coding art style of computerized electronic motion digital game it’s a Escort mission with the kids and his pals leading a slow moving ET TO THE GOAL OF EACH STAGE AVOIDING THE HAZMAT MAN AND FBI AGENTS AND SCIENTIST EACH MISSION PLAYS AS A PART TO THE FILM WITH ADDED SCENES AND ACTIVITIES BECAUSE ET IS A DRAMA 🎭 FILM THIS IS A INTERACTIVE TELEVISION ELECTRONIC ENTERTAINMENT

I agree - not this guy’s fault. The game actually worked and might have been pretty good if the company had left enough time for testing and fine-tuning.

I still do not understand why people call this the worst 2600 game ever.

Gen Xers... do you not REMEMBER 90% of the crappy 2600 games? Just a box dodging other boxes and you'd need the manual to even know what was going on.

Sure, its not a great game and it has a lot of problems. But it did have a lot of good ideas and was pretty impressive given the insanely small timeline HSW had to work on it. The graphics were decent, there was a multi-world map and a basic collection quest kinda reminiscent of Superman for the 2600.

I don't know if I feel better or worse that video game developer crunch has always been in the industry...

It wasn't his fault. Atari got greedy because of the upcoming Christmas holiday season, and they wanted the game in stores by then because it would be a cash cow for them therefore, the short 5 week development period. I played this game quite a bit back then. It had some pesky issues like when you would elevate to get out of a pit, then you would try to move away from it only to fall back in it. For people to say this game caused Atari to crash is not fair though, there were just too many video games made for the 2600 system which kind of watered it down so to speak. I have great memories of playing games on that system, the perfect rainy day activity back then.

What a good outlook!

I really admire that gentleman's fortitude

What elements made the game bad?

I want this game to be remade after more time and heart.

Omg it makes so much sense, 5 weeks wtf

For something made in 5 weeks to still have people interested is impressive

I've played Yars Revenge a LOT.
& that Raiders game?
I loved, but never could solve it.

The ET game was pretty bad.
But what can one expect,
on such a tight deadline?

I also blame Spielberg for approving the game. I actually like the game

I really enjoyed playing ET on my Atari VCS.

52 year old 1970’s child here. I had this game on Atari 2600. Yeah it was pretty bad 😂. With that said as a kid I remember it being pretty cool and fun to play. I think it gets a bad rap overall.

Is it just me, or does Howard Scott Warshaw sound like Steven Spielberg?

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Superman on the n64 is awful

For a game made in 5 weeks, it's actually pretty good.

Sorry Atari pac man was THE WORST OF ALL TIME!!!

Spielberg ok'd this game

E.T the Video Game on Atari 2600 is Very Bad , Right?

Disliked since its clickbait. It's not the worst game of all time, heck it wasn't even the worst on the 2600.

At a yard sale in the 80s, my bought me a used 2600 and another Atari console, with a ton of games for each. E.T. was included. It is definitely NOT the worst game of all time. “Custer’s Revenge” is a ‘game’ where a cowboy’s goal is to have relations with a Native American Woman. That game I’ve never played but I’d say THAT is the worst game ever made.

It's actually amazing he was able to program what he did in 5 weeks. To call E.T. the lone reason for the Crash of 1983 is ludicrous. For example, they printed 12 million Pac-Man cartridges...when they had only sold 10 million Atari 2600 consoles. This all points to bad businessmen, not developers.

I remember going to my moms when i was 7 (1993) and seeing ET and an Atari 2600 just sitting there. Tried it out and damn near lost my mind trying to get out of those craters. Granted, it ain't as bad as a Tiger handheld but this was the first game I ever remember hating.

the game was so bad, that it was actually good :D

I wonder if he knows about the show code monkeys & the episode parody they did about that 😅

E. T is not the worst, look at the mobile game industry

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5 weeks of assembly on a mainframe. From idea to execution to product. That's pretty damn good.

Nah. Superman 64 is far worse

I think I played this once but only for a few minutes. I thought Raiders kind of sucked too. It seems like we couldn’t figure out how to play some of these games so I guess we were probably just stupid 10 year olds. This isn’t the first time this sort of thing happened and we were getting kind of used to being disappointed.

A game that should have never been created and started. My son said something to me today, that came from no where. My son is 9 yrs old.

Sorry for your game being sucks 😔

The fact all my friends in school just known E.T. and Space Defender when i asked them what games they know on Atari 2600, its prooving how revolutionary this E.T. game being rhe worst game of all time XDD.

5 weeks insane for an atari game, where even drawing a basic playfield is a challenge, on the ATARI, your code is constantly racing the CRT beam, with 3 pixels being drawn for ever cpu cycle, making game dev for the atari 2600 incredibly difficult and time-consuming

5 weeks, no wonder the game become crap. lol

I just want him to explain what you're supposed to do and how you're supposed to win the game.