For better or worse, video game designer/programmer Howard Scott Warshaw is perhaps best known for the Atari 2600 game “E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial” (1982). That game is considered by many to be the worst video game in history and blamed for driving the video game industry crash of 1983. (To be fair, it wasn’t entirely Warshaw’s fault. He was also the talented developer behind the classic Yars’ Revenge and other fine titles.) Above is the Big Story of E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial and Warshaw, now a psychotherapist in Silicon Valley.
And in case you missed it, the film Atari: Game Over is a wonderful documentary about E.T. and the mass burial of unsold copies of the game.
