E.T. is the one game that I use to gauge just what age did a "reviewer", "journalist", YouTube "personality", etc came into retrogaming. If all they can do is pine E.T. as a bad game while only pointing at the usual reasons that EVERYONE uses, then I know they are not a gamer from the day. Instead, they are "new" gamers that want to ride the retrogaming bandwagon and get hits, views, likes, etc. They are just going through the motions and therefore, I tend to ignore them.

The Swordquest franchise is MUCH worse. Seriously, at least E.T. was playable. These games were horrible, horrible, examples of "games" from the time. There is little more than moving some pixels across the screen, avoiding other pixels, then doing it again for whatever random reason the game deemed your fault.

I am all for ambitious games, I kind of enjoyed Dragon's Lair on the NES for a week as I marveled at the graphics, the animation, and the shading. The thing is, after a week of that, I was back to square one - the game is just not a lot of fun. Sure, there are people that can one man, speed-run, that title but that isn't my skill level. I have trouble remembering what I ate this morning so remembering which stop on the elevator is the one I want is out of the question after I had just survived a myriad of enemies and death traps.

Dragon's Lair is bad but not on the level of the Swordquest franchise. I would love for some of these "E.T. sucks" gamers to play a few hours of Swordquest with no manual, no comic, and no walk through PDF handy. Then I would love to hear their opinion on which was worse - Swordquest or E.T., I figure their opinion will change.