Publisher: Atari

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Release Date: December 1982

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E.T. was programmed by Howard Scott Warshaw, who also programmed Yars' Revenge and Raiders of the Lost Ark, among others.

E.T. was the second ever game based on a movie license, the first being Raiders of the Lost Ark.

Steven Spielberg originally had asked for a game roughly based on Pac-Man.

The game was completed in six weeks time for $200,000 and an all expenses paid trip to Hawaii.

E.T. has been considered one of the worst video games of all time.

Despite the reviews, E.T. was one of Atari's best selling titles, selling over 1.5 million copies.

Rumor has it that the 2.5 - 3.5 million unsold copies were crushed in cement and buried in a landfill in Alamogordo, NM.

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