387- The Worst Video Game Ever

99% Invisible

• Episode: 387- The Worst Video Game Ever
• Website: 99% Invisible
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• Duration: 00:26:37
• Published: 2020-01-29 00:50

Deep within the National Museum of American History’s vaults is a battered Atari case containing what’s known as “the worst video game of all time.” The game is E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, and it was so bad that not even the might of Steven Spielberg could save it. It was so loathsome that all remaining copies were buried deep in the desert. And it was so horrible that it’s blamed for the collapse of the American home video game industry in the early 1980s.

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The Worst Video Game Ever