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The pieces are found scattered randomly throughout various pits (also referred to as wells). The objective is to collect three pieces of an interplanetary telephone. is an adventure game in which players control the alien E.T. Reese's Pieces are scattered throughout the world and are represented by black dots.Į.T. According to the 2014 documentary Atari: Game Over, only 10% of the approximately 1,300 recovered were E.T. Marty Goldberg, co-author of the book Atari Inc.: Business Is Fun, added that the dump was in fact a clearing out of the Texas Atari manufacturing plant's unused cartridge stock of a number of titles, as well as console and computer parts. James Heller, the former Atari manager who was in charge of the burial, was at the excavation, and admitted to the Associated Press that 728,000 cartridges of various games (not just E.T.) were buried. In April 2014, diggers hired to investigate the claim confirmed that the landfill contained several E.T. In what was once deemed only an urban legend, reports from 1983 stated that as a result of overproduction and returns, unsold cartridges were secretly buried in a landfill in Alamogordo, New Mexico, and covered with a layer of concrete. It is cited as a major contributing factor to the video game crash of 1983, and has been frequently referenced and mocked in popular culture as a cautionary tale about the dangers of rushed game development and studio interference. The game is often cited as one of the worst of all time and one of the biggest commercial failures in video game history. The final release received negative reviews. Negotiations for the game rights ended in late July 1982, giving Warshaw just over five weeks to develop the game in time to meet the production schedule for the 1982 Christmas season. The game was designed by Howard Scott Warshaw, who intended it to be an innovative adaptation, and Atari held unrealistic expectations for sales based on the international box-office success of the film. The game's objective is to guide the eponymous character through various screens to collect three pieces of an interplanetary telephone that will allow him to contact his home planet.

for the Atari 2600 and based on the film of the same name. the Extra-Terrestrial is a 1982 adventure video game developed and published by Atari, Inc.

E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial download the new version