E.T. is frequently cited as a contributing factor to Atari's massive financial losses during 1983 and 1984. As a result of overproduction and returns, millions of unsold cartridges were buried in an Alamogordo, New Mexico landfill. The game's commercial failure and resulting effects on Atari are frequently cited as a contributing factor to the video game industry crash of 1983.
"[Atari] was responsible for a number of notoriously poor high-profile cartridge efforts in late 1982. The most notable of these were a designed-in-six-weeks version of Pac-Man and an awful adaptation of E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, which are widely panned as two of the worst games ever made. Not only were these (and numerous other) games awful, but Atari ended up over-producing them — 12 million copies of Pac-Man were made for a 10-million-console industry in the hopes it would be a system-seller. Angered stores returned the unsellable products in droves. When the company was left with millions of dollars in worthless cartridges, it dumped and paved over many of them in a landfill in the New Mexico desert."
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