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Total Failure: The World's Worst Video Game
Isabel Seliger for NPR

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Total Failure: The World's Worst Video Game

In the late summer of 1982, one man worked around the clock to program the video game version of Steven Spielberg's E.T. in just five weeks. The result wasn't pretty.

Total Failure: The World's Worst Video Game

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E.T.'s Home Is Found: Trove Of Atari Games Unearthed At Landfill

An E.T. doll was held up at the site of an exploratory dig for old Atari video games Saturday. Workers dug into a landfill in Alamogordo, N.M., that had long been rumored to be the final resting place of millions of copies of the game E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial. Juan Carlos Llorca/AP hide caption

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The Two-Way

E.T.'s Home Is Found: Trove Of Atari Games Unearthed At Landfill

For decades, it was mere legend: an "Atari Dump" rumored to harbor millions of copies of E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial, a video game so bad that burying it in the desert seemed the best way to move on.

If E.T. Comes Calling, Americans Favor Obama Over Romney To Handle Things

In the 1996 20th Century Fox film Independence Day, the White House did not fare well. AFP/Getty Images hide caption

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The Two-Way

If E.T. Comes Calling, Americans Favor Obama Over Romney To Handle Things

In a poll commissioned by National Geographic (not The National Enquirer), nearly two-thirds said they thought the current president would be better able to handle things than his Republican challenger. But what about a president from the movies?

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