DID YOU KNOW... E.T ALMOST KILLED THE INDUSTRY OF VIDEO GAMES!!!

Well, it really wasn't E.T, it was Steve Ross - CEO of Warner Communications, the company that owned Atari at the time, who promised Steven Spielberg, the head of E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, which was going to launch the film's video game for Christmas, that is, in less than 6 months if it transferred the rights to make it.

Ray Kassar, president of Warner's consumer division, agreed, as there was already a promise. A market study was not carried out, this is the beginning of the disaster.

Nobody wanted to produce a new video game in such a short time, until they found Atari developer Howard Scott Warshaw, who was given the task of starting it from scratch, just like a hero.

The video game was launched in December 1982 and it was a total failure, everyone hated it, even other developers criticized it. The game itself did not correctly follow the premise of the movie and there were objects within the game that had no use. The gaming experience was unpleasant due to its lack of design.

Millions of copies were produced and only a third of it reached the end user. Financial disasters caused the Atari company to lose its net worth and Warner Communications sold it.

The video game industry, from being at its peak with games like Pac Man, fell into crisis due to poor decisions by industry and production leaders and issues related to copyright with certain video games and improvements to them by Third parties, gamer communities achieved high scores on consoles and this caused such consoles to stop generating profits, as players gained experience achieving high scores and over time the industry was no longer in demand.

The funniest thing of all is that Atari have buried unsold copies of the game in the New Mexico Desert.