E.T. is not the worse game for the Atari 2600 (was Re: Sales of unearthed Atari games total more than $100, 000)

It was thus said that the Great drlegendre . once stated: I would think it depends upon your criteria for "worst video game ever." I mean, "Chase the Chuck Wagon" [1] or "Custer's Revenge" [2] could easily take the "worst video game ever" slot. E.T. actually had a plot (as E.T., collect parts to "phone home"). Also, given the story behind E.T., it's an incredible accomplishment in Atari 2600 programming---only five weeks to come up with an idea and get it programmed on a machine where you had to program the screen nearly pixel-by-pixel in about 4K of ROM (and 128 bytes of RAM). I think the main problem with the game is the pixel-perfect collision detection that makes it all too easy to fall into the pits. It can be fixed [3] but not with some addtional issues. -spc (It's certainly more complex than Adventure ... ) [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chase_the_Chuck_Wagon [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Custer%27s_Revenge [3] http://www.neocomputer.org/projects/et/