15 Most Expensive Games That Flopped

E.T. The Extraterrestrial – Contributed to the great video game crash of 1983

Atari’s E.T. The Extraterrestrial. A video game so bad with so many excess copies consumers didn’t want that they had to be buried in a land-fill somewhere in New Mexico. Though there’s no hard and fast budget for the game, E.T. still turned out to be expensive for the industry in every single way – Atari’s revenue forecast had been cut by 50 percent in 1982 after its release. A year later and the studio had lost $356 million. E.T. was also credited for contributing to the great video game crash of 1983. In terms of commercial failures in this industry, it just doesn’t get worse.