20 Weirdest Licensed Video Games EVER

20. E.T. The Extra Terrestrial

One of the most legendarily bad games to ever grace store shelves, Atari's adaptation of the beloved sci-fi classic certainly lives up to its reputation with its confusing gameplay and overall lack of polish but those aspects do tend to overshadow just how weird it actually is. 

Cobbled together in a few short weeks, this game puts players in the shoes of the titular alien, as he wanders around various landscapes looking for space-ship parts, whilst avoiding FBI agents that aim to capture him. That premise is already taking some liberties with the source material but the core gameplay loop or falling down numerous pits and then levitating back out via an extendable neck is undeniably wrong-headed.

That's essentially all that happens in E.T., you continually fall into pits - whether intentionally or not - and hope to discover ship parts. There's very little else going on here but that can be forgiven considering the game's infamously terrible production cycle. As it stands, Atari's E.T. will forever be remembered as a colossal misfire that's still being talked about to this day, not only for the many stories that have established its complex lore but due to it's truly baffling design.