GiN Lounge

E.T. finally phones home

Was this really the worst game ever made?

News that the urban legend of Atari burying thousands of Atari 2600 copies of E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial has been confirmed. This has led the lounge crew to think back on other terrible games that should have probably been tossed in as well. But fear not, because while we did come up with quite a few bad titles, overwhelmingly, the games we thought about were good.

Do we simply forget the bad games? Was E.T. really that bad of a title, or was it just a case of bad timing? And what’s with Chella’s obsession with Shrek games?

These and other mysteries will be revealed in The GiN Lounge this week.

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John Breeden II

John has spent his journalism career covering just about everything, from small-town meetings and crime scenes to Capitol Hill and the U.S. Congress. He got his start writing about games and technology with a computer column called On the Chip Side, which grew to more than 1 million in circulation and ran in newspapers across several states. Today, John is an award-winning journalist with more than 25 years of experience. His work has appeared in The Washington Post, Newsweek and many other publications, and he writes a regular technology and government column for Nextgov/FCW and hosts security and educational webinars for FedInsider. He is also the founder of the Tech Writers Bureau and the chief editor of GameIndustry.com. He still loves disappearing into games, whether that means crawling through Baldur’s Gate dungeons deep into the night or planning one more big offensive in the latest wargame.

2 Responses

Marie says:

May 15, 2014 at 10:03 am

The real question raised here is why does John like Yakuza 3?
1. John Breeden II says:
  
  May 15, 2014 at 8:03 pm
  
  Because if you are a really bad but respected guy and you give it all up, the leadership of a criminal clan because you value personal honor more than money, it shows that you have true character. Its not that he couldn’t be a criminal boss. He chooses the path of peace while capable of being on the path of war. And he takes the concerns of the lowest among them, the orphans, as primary importance. Argh. I’ll never be able to explain this to anyone…