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Atari [USA] - E.T. - The Extra-Terrestrial (Silver)

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TV format		Rarity	Cart	CiB	Last changed n/a
Gametitle	E.T. - The Extra-Terrestrial	Class	Official release
Company	Atari [USA]	Genre	Adventure
Series	Silver	Max. player	1
Cartridge shell	Standard	Controller	Joystick
Serial number	CX2674	Programmer	Warshaw, Howard Scott
UPC code		Manual
Year	1982	Screenshot
Country	- USA	md5 Hash / Size	615a3bf251a38eb6638cdc7ffbde5480 (8K)

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Easter egg 1: Collect all the (three) pieces of the phone, then give Elliot seven candies. Then bring the flower back to life. It will turn into a YAR (Yars' Revenge was also programmed by Howard Scott Warshaw) and fly away. When this is done, leave the pit and finish the game. Now start a new game by pressing the fire button and repeat the whole thing, then the flower turns into Indiana "Indy" Jones ("Raiders of the lost Ark" - also programmed by H.S. Warshaw). At the third repetition the initials of the programmer "HSW" appear with an appended "3". The "3" stands for the fact that E.T. is his third game programmed for Atari. Finding the Easter egg also works with individual parts of the phone (so you don't really need to collect seven parts): By the way, it is sufficient to collect the matching telephone part, so to say the part for the YAR, the part for Indiana Jones and the part for the initials. But with all three parts nothing can go "wrong" anyway. Easter Egg 2: The initials of the graphic artist, Jerome M. Domurat, can also be found in the game. In game no. 1, you give Elliot a candy. When you are both on the screen with eight pits, the letters "JD" appear in the top right corner of the status bar. Atari Video Game Burial: E.T. was a major factor in the modern saga that Atari in 1983 disposed of heaps of video games in New Mexico by simply burying them. 1983 was a disastrous business year for Atari, and part of the reason for this can certainly be found in the sales figures of the E.T. game, as the hoped-for sales figures were far from being fulfilled. Allegedly 5 million units were produced, of which only 1.5 million were sold in the end. The game received devastating reviews and is now considered one of the worst games ever, although opinions differ. According to Howard Scott Warshaw, the problems with the implementation of the game began early, after it was revealed that they only had five weeks from the idea to the finished product. He had made it, but in that short time, no better result could be expected. That's when the legend began... What happened to the 3.5 million unsold games? After the legend hadn't progressed beyond the status of a rumor for a long time, in 2013 concrete evidence began to accumulate that such a landfill actually existed in Alamogordo, where Atari had games buried in 1983. On 26.4.2014 the time had indeed come and digging was started. Copies of the game E.T. did indeed come to light, but other Atari titles were also found there. It is estimated that about 700.000 modules were buried there.

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Atari Inc.- the company all began with- started to release their first VCS titles in the U.S. in spetember 1977 . The official release in Europe followed in 1980. The german company Unimex in Wiesbaden was the first distributor for Atari games in 1980-1983 under the Time Warner era in Europe.

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Original Version	12 known copies	Output
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