{"id":49775,"date":"2022-12-02T13:30:18","date_gmt":"2022-12-02T18:30:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.moviefanfare.com\/?p=49775"},"modified":"2022-12-02T19:05:06","modified_gmt":"2022-12-03T00:05:06","slug":"1982-the-year-e-t-took-over-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.moviefanfare.com\/?p=49775","title":{"rendered":"1982: The Year E.T. Saved Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The biggest film of 1982 (if not the entirety of the ’80s) was Steven Spielberg<\/a>‘s E.T.: The Extra Terrestrial<\/a><\/em>. The film was such a massive pop culture touchstone that it remained in theaters for months, and by the time the holiday season rolled around it seemed like everyone was trying to cash in on the Coors-loving alien’s out-of-this-world adventures.<\/p>\n

The most notorious product associated with the character is Atari’s legendarily bad E.T.<\/em> game, which resulted in many of a 1980s kid spending Christmas day trying to get E.T. out of a crudely animated pit. Not that you’d ever know how terrible the game was judging by the commercial. Take a look:<\/p>\n