E.T.

E.T. is a cancelled video game based on the film of the same name.

Development
The game was started by Quarantine Development in 1998 through a separate development team. Quarantine intended to go with Universal Interactive as their publisher. In spite of clear skepticism toward okaying an E.T. game following the failure of the film's Atari 2600 counterpart, Universal were intrigued in what Quarantine had worked on so far.

The game was originally going to be for the PlayStation, though after learning of the soon to be launching SEGA Dreamcast, they proposed to work on a port for that system. The game was near completed in 2000, but the finished product failed to please the developers and Universal. Quarantine realized that the game had a lot to live up to to beat out the infamy of the Atari 2600 game, so delayed the game to put more into it.

In 2001, NewKidCo acquired the E.T. license. Quarantine intended to have the game published under them and kept working on it well into 2002 before ending the project outright, citing mounting stress taking a medical toll on the programers and NewKidCo spoiling the license by gearing out mediocre E.T. titles.