December 1982 · Game
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (Atari 2600) (1982)
Rushed out in about five weeks. Often blamed for the 1983 video game crash.
About 4 million cartridges were produced, and roughly 3.5 million were reported returned or unsold.
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Facts
- Date
- December 1982
- Kind
- Game
- Maker or publisher
- Atari
- Developer
- Howard Scott Warshaw
- Genre
- Action-adventure
- Platform
- Atari 2600
- Format
- Cartridge
Source: Wikipedia
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