E.T.: Is It Really the Worst Video Game of All Time?

Stuff You Should Know

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🗓️ 20 December 2018

⏱️ 45 minutes

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If you play video games you probably have an easy answer to worst game of all time: ET. But it turns out there are no easy answers, especially when you’re talking about a game so terrible it’s blamed for bringing the entire video game industry with it.

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0:54.3	We're going to do what we almost did for a short stuff.
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