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I played a colossal collection of Atari games. This one's worthy of a 0/10, and please don't ask how I played this one.
Trust me when I say that this game is FAR worse than E.T. It's over 7 kinds of monotonous (bang chick, dodge spears), and tries to be preverted with Lego graphics. There was an entire cult surrounding this game with hatred. It's a miserable pile of oversexual **** which is exactly why nudity/whatever is hated in games by most people. It's repetitive and doesn't evoke anything. At least E.T. had some variety, as in, there was more than 1 screen and enemy variety; even the holes were something!
0/10. This is an absolutely horrible game, one of the worst ever to hit retail. The controls are terrible, the gameplay itself is terrible, the setting is as tasteless as it is possible to be, and it has no redeeming features whatsoever. It may not be the worst game ever made - but if it isn't, it's not far off. As Ytterbium_70 mentioned, it is worse than ET, and that says quite a lot.
Meanwhile, name ONE other game that features rape, as tasteless as it is. No video game since then has ever had the balls to even bring up the topic of rape, except for Silent Hill 2. Other forms of literature bring up rape all the time, but gamers are so devoid of the subject that we had to invent our own meaning of the word "rape".
Custers Revenger > E.T., if only by one point.
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Genesis does what Nintendon't http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7nsBoqJ6s8
I know that's your opinion and all, but you're basing it on some very dubious things.
From: TomNook7 | #020 E.T. crashed the entire industry.
No it didn't - not even slightly close to correct.
ET was one of many games that contributed to the crash of the North American console games industry.
That's not the entire industry. It's not even the entire North American industry. It's one part of the industry, and ET was only one part of that.
Gamers believe the industry crashed, because that's a nice children's story that's easier to say or explain than "part of part of an industry collapsed". It's an oversimplification though, and has no place as part of a real discussion.
Oh, and even if ET had crashed the entire industry all by itself, that would not change how good or bad of a game it was.
From: TomNook7 | #020 Meanwhile, name ONE other game that features rape, as tasteless as it is.
You want a list? Just as a start, to match your "one game" criterion, Heavy Rain includes an attempted rape (I say "includes" because I don't see how it's right to say that rape is "featured"). It is approximately infinitely more mature at the topic than Custer's Revenge.