E.T. The Extra Terrestrial. This game is infamous for being horrible and believed to have been buried in a landfill. So, how bad is it? It's bad. End of review. Just kidding, let us take a closer look, shall we?

Upon starting you see a title with E.T.'s face. Pressing start will bring you to a cutscene of E.T. landing in a forest in a tiny purple spaceship, then the ship ditches him. I guess it did not want to be in this horrible game. I don't blame it. You can move in 8 directions and pressing the fire button while walking will make you run. BUT there is a counter on the bottom that starts at 9999 and decreases when you walk, and faster when you run.

On each screen, you will see that they are half filled with holes. Going into these holes will let you move left and right only, and you can't run. I guess E.T. has problems with his legs in giant craters. And you have to go in these holes. "Why?" you ask? To find pieces for a phone to "phone home". HUEHAHUHUEAHUAH! Not funny. There are only 3 phone pieces. But to complicate matters, there is an agent and scientist who captures you and takes you to a building. That is it. But they can take your phone pieces away!

You can also find flowers in the holes. They don't seem to do anything but bloom when you press the fire button on them. Oh, and I did not even explain how to get out of the holes. You press the fire button and hold "up" on the joystick. This drains your "energy" as well. If you lose all your energy, E.T. will be revived by whatshisface.

You can refill your "energy" by eating reeses pieces. I'm not kidding! You find them as dots on the ground and eat them by standing still and pressing the fire button. But this has to be done when no icons are on the top of the screen. Icons? Yes, there are several of them. There are arrows that teleport you to the screen in that direction, a thing that calls whatshisface but it does not seem to do anything but take your reeses pieces, a question mark that shows where a telephone piece is, and a alien thing that you use to call the mothership when you have collected all 3 phone pieces.

When you call the mothership, you must wait and it will appear on the forest screen where you started. A cutscene plays where E.T. flies away and you see whatshisface running laps around his house. Wat.

Graphics: They are pretty nice. E.T. look pretty good and so does the detector, scientist, and whatshisface.

Sound: just your stepping and beeping whistle as you fall into a hole. Not much.

Addictiveness: Only if you are interested play it.

Overall, this is a horrible game. It is okay to play, but just as a collectors item. Not really something to play on a daily basis.

Your acualley right all the atari games are horrible..Not because of the graphics..(if you where in atari age you will see it like
Ps3 graphics..),But because of the gameplay..The best atari game i've played is
PiNG PONG..

I don't like any Atari but the graphics are just horrible and I'm not interested in playing this game so I say you got the perfect point of view about this game. Keep up the good work and make more reviews!.

The Atari did have its share of good games regardless of graphics like most games developed by Activision. But this game was so bad that it almost led to the death of videogaming before Nintendo stepped in and brought it back to light.

Azul Fria : lol so you are an AVGN fan too? Atari in my opinion is such an awful and primitive system that has no games with any replay value whatsoever but i'm waiting to see the AVGN movie to see his reviewof ET so I don't spil it.

Never played it. Never want to.

Azul Fria : You really should double check to see if something is actually fact or just something started by AVGN before repeating it as fact. This game did not lead to the death of video games. That NEVER happened.?

And the whole buried in a landfill thing is another rumor that is only believed by people who just assume it is true because it is a popular rumor. That never happened either. That would be a waste of money. Cartridges can be erased and reprogrammed into a different game. But they didn't do that either. On top of that, the landfill thing would be illegal, as it is against proper disposal regulations.