00:00 This episode is about the widely believed worst video game of all time, ET for Atari, but it is argued that there were actually worse video games than ET.

04:50 Howard Scott Warshaw was an innovative game designer who created popular Atari games like Yars Revenge and Raiders of the Lost Ark.

09:01 Howard Scott Warshaw was given the task of creating the ET video game in just five weeks, which was a significantly shorter timeframe than usual due to the prolonged negotiations for the rights to the game and the desire to have it released in time for Christmas.

13:22 Howard Scott Warshaw meets with Steven Spielberg to propose his vision for the E.T. game, which involves an adventure game where the player is E.T. collecting pieces to build a phone, despite Spielberg suggesting a Pac-Man knockoff.

18:16 Howard Scott Warshaw completes the ET video game in five weeks, creating a world with six screens and a unique navigation system, and Atari releases it in time for Christmas, producing at least four million copies.

22:32 The ET video game sold about a half a million copies initially, but word quickly spread among kids that the game was terrible, leading to a decline in sales and ultimately the game's failure.

27:14 The ET video game's failure came at a bad time for Atari, as the personal computer industry was already eating into their profits, leading to a catastrophic loss of tens of millions of dollars and the eventual downfall of the entire video game industry.

32:03 The creator of the ET video game, Howard Warshaw, eventually made peace with the game's failure and became a psychotherapist specializing in talking to Silicon Valley types about their work problems, and a documentary was made about the urban legend that Atari buried the remaining boxes of the game in the desert.

36:36 A documentary was made about the search for buried video game cartridges in the Alamogordo landfill, and they were able to narrow down the search to two cells and found 1300 game cartridges, confirming the urban legend that Atari buried the cartridges.

41:00 E.T. was not the worst video game of all time, but there were other games that were so bad they were forgotten in history.