I would agree with you that ET is not as terrible as it is hyped to be, and that there were/are worse games out there. However, I don’t think that you can say that it had great graphics even for it time. There were Atari 2600 games that were much better visually. As far as sound, I think it was as good as it could be for the system. Those don’t add up to much though – the gameplay was bad, really. Atari rushed it. They had a deadline and rushed production, which resulted in a poor game.
