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It’s always sad to see high hopes for a product in its advertising, just before it gets ripped to shreds in the rock-strewn valleys of public opinion. So it is with this commercial for Atari’s E.T. video game from the early ’80s. Not only could you see E.T. in theaters, you and your mom could live it vicariously! It must have been hours of fun guiding the plucky little alien through badly pixelated adventures such as running away from things and gradually assembling a telephone.
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