10 Video Games That Should Be Ashamed Of Themselves
8. ET: The Extra Terrestrial
When you make a game so very, terribly bad that countless unsold copies of it end up actually buried in a landfill in the desert, you should probably be a bit ashamed of yourself.
With incredibly crap graphics and completely confusing controls and layout, ET is by all means worthy of its status as one of the very worst videogames of all time.
The game itself released in 1992 for the Atari 2600, and tasks players with controlling ET to pick up pieces of a phone from a top-down perspective. You had to navigate the weird blob that was meant to be ET into wells, collect Reese's Pieces to fill a constantly-depleting energy bar, and escape to your home planet. It is genuinely absolutely awful in every way.
Amazingly, the aforementioned burial of the cartridges in the desert is 100% true. It was an urban legend for an extremely long time, but in 2014, diggers sent to the Alamogordo, New Mexico landfill where the cartridges were meant to be buried actually unearthed a whopping 728,000 discarded videogame cartridges, of which a hefty portion was from ET!