Rushed into development for the 1982 Christmas season, Howard Scott Warshaw was given only 5 to 6 weeks to design, program and test this game. The game was widely considered almost unplayable.
About four million copies of this game were shipped, and according to Atari's then-CEO Ray Kassar, about 3.5 million of those copies were returned to Atari.
Atari reputedly paid $20 million to purchase a license to make the game.
The odd looking telephone is meant to look like the letters ET.
Considered one of the worst video games ever