Review Roundup: Was E.T. Really the "Worst Game Ever"?
Added 2017-11-03 23:05:57 +0000 UTCHere's the latest entry from our recently launched Writing Fund: The first in a continuing series of Review Roundups.
The premise here is pretty simple: Using our reference library - as well as digital resources for things we don't have - we're going to dig up every contemporary review of a game that we can find to see how critics felt about it at the time. Doing this, hopefully we'll gain some new insight into how we think about an older game.
In this particular case, E.T. has taken on the honor of "worst game ever" in recent years, but did people actually think so back then? We wanted to find out. Maybe you do to?
Check out the article here: https://gamehistory.org/et-atari-reviews-worst-game-ever/
What I like about this series is that it really speaks to our strengths, and what I'm hoping to accomplish with the VGHF. We're trying to prove to the world that if researchers have access to primary sources, we can learn new things about our past. I think this article - from an author new to the site, John Harris - goes a long way toward proving that out.
