Funny you should mention ET. It was indeed shovelware, Howard's group was challenged to get a movie-tie-in game out in 12 weeks and he volunteered. Worked like

Funny you should mention ET. It was indeed shovelware, Howard's group was challenged to get a movie-tie-in game out in 12 weeks and he volunteered. Worked like a slave to get something that looked like a game, had at least one play mechanic, titles and animation! All with a tiny processor with negligible memory that had to turn the electron beam on and off in timing loops. Still proud that he got anything at all that worked. Proud of the notoriety as well, Howard is like that! Now he's a family counselor, a good one too. I see him a couple times a month at Movie Night, another old friend hosts those and we get good attendance even though we haven't worked together for forty years. Merry Christmas!