Remember how Nintendo handled selling rights to Donkey Kong in the early 80s? They sold the home console rights to Coleco, who used it to good effect, but sold the home computer rights to Coleco's competitor Atari. Coleco saw their console as a possible root component of a larger system. (That was pretty common...even the NES is the 'control deck' and the SMS is the 'power base', which shows the idea was still around for Ninty and Sega too). When Coleco ran a version of Donkey Kong on their Adam, Atari saddled up the lawyers.
It seems that Spielberg might have done the same thing. He sold Atari the home console rights, but Texas Instruments got the home computer rights. There are several versions of E.T. games for the TI/99, but I have not played any of them. There are 2 videos on YouTube of games running on MAME. One is called E.T.'s and his adventures at sea. It comes up on Ebay on floppy disk. It may be an educational game. Atariage has a thread on a prototype game called E.T. and his adventures on land. Maybe there are others.
The most interesting one is called "E.T. The Extra Terrestrial", has a TI cart number of PHM 3125, dated 1st quarter of 1983, but may never have been released. Its a Frogger knock-off.
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