/vr/ - Retro Games

>>9647029
It really isn't even close to the worst of its time. It's not very good, but it's far from the worst, if you polished it a bit it'd be pretty ok. It was a big waste of money for Atari, but Atari were very good at wasting their money in general.

>>9648097
I vaguely recall him once saying that E.T. isn't actually anywhere close to the worst, but I don't know for sure, never saw his movie, heard it was very bad.

>>9649006
Atari did this a lot, they often overproduced games, they had this problem even for games which were big commercial hits, such as Pac-Man for 2600. The thing which set E.T. apart was that 1, it was kind of bad, 2, attached to a popular movie, and then 3, Atari paid out the ass for the licensing agreement.

>>9447025
The only factor the crash had on the market was Nintendo being smart about making and keeping money while actually pushing fresh products, when Atari showed that they were anything but.
They would most likely still have dominated that period, or at least still been the leader by a large margin, even without all the shady and cutthroat shit they actually got up to (it would likely not have changed Sega catching up with them with the Genesis and Atari creating the Jaguar, or something equally stupid).