I firmly believe that most people quipping "worst. game. ever." about E.T. these days have never even played it. Likely never even played a 2600. I wouldn't be surprised if many haven't seen the movie either. They're just little parrots who will repeat whatever the AVGN-style Internet "celebrities" tell them because they think it's funny. They never had any expectations for E.T. in the first place and have no intention of ever trying it out because, as long as they've known of the game's existence, they've known it as "the worst video game ever".