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A licensed game is a video game developed as a tie-in for a franchise in a different media format, such as a book, film or television show. Like other types of tie-ins, they are generally intended as
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982), a licensed game and notorious commercial failure, was one of numerous games in the Atari video game burial.
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial is a 1982 adventure video game developed and published by Atari, Inc. for the Atari 2600, based on the film of the same name. The game's objective is to guide the eponymous
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…the game's development to be rushed to meet the film's release, and resulting in numerous bugs and glitches in the final product. Notably, the 1982 E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial was rushed to release in five weeks to meet the Christmas shopping season, becoming one of the largest commercial failures ever and causing the downfall…
Atari's silver label box art featuring the titular character and his friend Elliot, two of the main characters from the original film
Howard Scott Warshaw (shown in 2015) developed the game within less than six weeks.
Steven Spielberg (shown in 1993), who directed the eponymous film that inspired the game, suggested a Pac-Man-style game when he first saw Warshaw's designs.