Notorious Flops In Videogames

One Hit Pixel:

"In the past few weeks, an urban myth was proven to the world.

Atari did in fact bury copies of the Atari 2600 game E.T: The Extra-Terrestrial in a landfill in New Mexico. The company made millions of copies available, but due to critical panning and poor sales, the game was eventually dumped in a landfill.

This rumour, together with the blame the game received for “causing the North American videogame crash of 1983” has made an otherwise unremarkable game infamous. People sought it out in deserts. Others are making movies based on it. Microsoft even endorsed a documentary team to film the excavation.

But there are plenty of terrible games out there, most notably in the vintage era of gaming, however only a few ever make it to that level of infamy. These games aren’t going to be exhumed any time soon, but they’re all notable for their own reasons."