15 Unfinished Video Games That Were Launched Anyways

E.T. the Extraterrestrial

E.T. The Extraterrestrial is a terrible game with a hilarious legacy (returned or unused copies being buried in the desert, video game market crash, you know the deal). However, there was no way its quality could have been better. After all, developer Howard Scott Warshaw was first asked to make the game on July 27^th 1982 and production had to be wrapped by September 1^st. Throw in technical limitations and lack of audience testing, and it’s obvious that E.T. was going to be something less than stellar. At one point, director Stephen Spielberg saw Warshaw’s overall design and wanted something akin to Pac-Man instead. Whether that would have resulted in a better game or not is really up in the air.