E.T. The Extra Terrestrial (Atari 2600) (1982) Antiques was a massive technological breakthrough

was a massive technological breakthrough that brought digital photography to the masses by solving a major headache: how to get photos onto a computer

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E.T. The Extra Terrestrial (Atari 2600) (1982) Antiques was a massive technological breakthroughE. T. on Atari 2600 The Atari 2600 port of E. T. the Extra Terrestrial, released in December 1982, is famously blamed for crashing the video game market in 1983 and is often unfairly branded as the worst game ever made. Developed by a single programmer in a grueling five week window to hit the holiday shopping rush, the game suffered from confusing navigation and a notorious design flaw where players constantly fell into frustrating, inescapable pits.