Phoning home

When I was much younger, I had an Atari 2600, but unlike many other kids I knew, I never owned the E.T. game.

My cousin wasn't so lucky. He received it for Christmas, and we played it that night over at his house, ending a day of joy and mirth with the lesson that it is possible for something to suck and blow at the same time. Even as a kid who could accept (and even love) a game like Adventure, where the main character was essentially a dot on the screen, I knew that the E.T. game was a piece of trash.

And Atari paid for it by burying millions of E.T. cartridges in a landfill, as highlighted in the new music video from the band Wintergreen. Per Joystiq, "This is one of the most important lessons in video game history distilled to a three-minute music video. What's not to like?"