From Wikipedia: "Kassar reportedly offered Warshaw US$200,000 and an all-expenses-paid vacation to Hawaii in compensation." [0] . $200K in 1982 is equivalent to

From Wikipedia: "Kassar reportedly offered Warshaw US$200,000 and an all-expenses-paid vacation to Hawaii in compensation." [0] . $200K in 1982 is equivalent to over $500K today. When you give a halfway intelligent and sensible 25 year old that kind of money, "have to" is probably not something that applies to working anywhere. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E.T._the_Extra-Terrestrial_(video_game) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E.T._the_Extra-Terrestrial_(vi...