Even the gamecube is black. How convenient.

Very nice. The Atari looks like it's in primo condition.

The 2600 itself is in great shape, though unfortunately one of the joysticks doesn't center correctly anymore. The coax adapter is also shot, so picture quality is pretty bad. But that's a cheap/easy fix, just need to buy a replacement (before they stop making them).

I just noticed the E.T. game slotted in. What was the story behind that again?

UGH. E.T. is terrible.

It's generally assumed that most of the E.T. Atari cartridges were buried in a New Mexico landfill. Millions of them. Because the game is so terrible and sold so badly that Atari just wanted to escape from it.

And it is really bad. It's not...for instance...Daikatana bad. It's more like Darkest of Days bad. It's not just not fun. It's a terrible game. It's a terrible program. It's a terrible digital mess. The stupid searching of pits for intergalactic telephone parts is tedious and random, and the pits are a PITA. It's really, really terrible. It's easy to die in the "wrong" pit because you've run out of energy (which is constantly being expended unless you're finding reese's pieces). Falling in pits costs energy. Moving costs energy. Leaving pits costs energy and it's easy to fall back into the same one. And when you die, you restart with a newly randomized set of pits. The very worst trial-and-error game I've played.