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I was retrogaming before AVGN; the hate/dislike for the game was there then. I played E.T. and I wasn't a kid playing it for Christmas 1982 (I wasn't born yet & I didn't get the game until maybe 2004) but I didn't ever think it was that bad (then again, I didn't have high expectations for it which I suppose is just most kids had way back when; plus, maybe they expected it to be like other Atari games which this one's not really like; not everything's so self-explanatory.) The game was rushed out, it's not the programmer's fault for it at all (6 weeks programming time?!) and he made Yars' Revenge which was a top selling title. Nobody at Atari blamed him for it.

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I was retrogaming before AVGN; the hate/dislike for the game was there then. I played E.T. and I wasn't a kid playing it for Christmas 1982 (I wasn't born yet & I didn't get the game until maybe 2004) but I didn't ever think it was that bad (then again, I didn't have high expectations for it which I suppose is just most kids had way back when; plus, maybe they expected it to be like other Atari games which this one's not really like; not everything's self-explanatory.) The game was rushed out, it's not the programmer's fault for it at all (6 weeks programming time?!) and he made Yars' Revenge which was a top selling title. Nobody at Atari blamed him for it.