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It wasnât Bushnell himself who created the program for Atari, but a new hire by the name of Al Alcorn, who had worked at Apex alongside Atariâs founders as a junior engineer and had never so much as seen a video game until Bushnell showed him Computer Space. Pong was the first game program he ever created.
The entire star of the show, however, is Howard Scott Warshaw's game version of Steven Spielberg's film E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial for the Atari 2600, which was so widely derided that Atari decided to dump hundreds of thousands of unsold copies along with other titles in 1983.E.T.â the Atari 2600 game that was so bad it is said to have ruined the entire video game industry in the 1980s, is now selling for more than $600 on eBay after being unearthed from the Alamogordo landfill in New Mexico. (Photo: Tech Times).