FREE: 1982 E.T. the Extra Terrestrial Atari 2600 Video Game Cartridge

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E.T. (Adventure) Objective of the game is to collect three pieces of an interplanetary telephone found scattered randomly throughout various pits (wells). Player is provided with an on-screen energy bar, which decreases when E.T. performs any actions (moving, teleporting, or falling, levitating\). To prevent this, collect Reese's Pieces, to restore his energy; when 9 are collected, E.T. can call Elliot to obtain a piece of the telephone. After the 3 phone pieces have been collected, player must guide E.T. to an area he can call his home planet. When the call is made, E.T. must reach the spaceship in a given time limit. Once E.T. gets to the forest where his ship abandoned him, the ship will appear on screen and take him back to his home planet. Then the game starts over, with the same difficulty level, while changing the location of the telephone pieces. The score obtained during the round is carried over to the next iteration. The game ends when the energy bar depletes, or the player decides to quit.[4]

The game is divided into six environments, each representing a different setting from the film. To accomplish the objective of the game, the player must guide E.T into the wells. Once all items found in a well are collected, the player must levitate E.T. out of them.[5] An icon at the top of each screen represents the current area, each area enabling the player to perform different actions. Antagonists include a scientist who takes E.T. for observation and an FBI agent who chases the alien to confiscate one of the collected telephone pieces. The game offers diverse difficulty settings that affect the number and speed of humans present, and the conditions needed to accomplish the objective.

Developer(s) Atari, Inc.
Publisher(s) Atari, Inc.
Designer(s) Howard Scott Warshaw
Platform(s) Atari 2600
Release date(s) NA December 1982[1]
Genre(s) Adventure
Mode(s) Single player
Distribution 16Kb ROM cartridge