> Once a century? Once ever. Never again will the perfect storm, the perfect > culmination of a cartridge based video game phenomena of epic proportions ever happen > like that again... ever.
Except that unsold inventory (carts, discs, whatever) gets landfilled or otherwise destroyed for tax writeoffs on a fairly regular basis even today. The point of the documentary was that ET wasn't as special as people want it to be.
Incidentally, the recent-ish "bugfixed" ET is very playable, if a little over-ambitious for the hardware. It feels kind of like the distilled essence of HSW's Raiders of the Lost Ark, which I'm sure it pretty much was.
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