I am glad to see you revisit the game and give it a fresh look. I am also glad to see it's no longer an F. I spent a lot of time with this game and had once mastered it, so for me it was always just another game that was hard but ultimately playable. I was genuinely surprised later on in life when I realized it had become infamous and was blamed for the so-called video game crash.
At the very least I always figured the game variation with just Elliot had to be *at least* playable for most people, even though it reduced the game to an item finding mission with no antagonists. Seems like the new variation they made (scientist but no FBI agent) gives players an option to do the same only with the weakest antagonist.
2014/4/30: Atari 2600: E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial, E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial (Fixed)
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