Boy, they really hate E.T.

And I think I’m starting to hate E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial for the Atari 2600, too. Why?

This video …

… has shown me all the little problems I had griped about as a kid, from the lack of intuitive gameplay to the keep-falling-into-holes-and-can’t-get-out bug. Sigh.

Don’t get me wrong, I still love the wrinkly ol’ alien, the film and, yes, the Atari game (sort of). It’s just that it’s really hard to forget the shortcomings of this classic when every other Tom, Dick and Harry keeps reminding you.

If anything positive came out of my watching the video, it’s that it gave me a lot of laughs.