Howard Scott Warshaw
publication date: Friday, August 21, 2020 (part of Summer 2020)
category: 
Games
clue: Now that he's a psychotherapist, he could help some of the people whose childhoods he ruined by making one of the most difficult, frustrating, and hated video games of all time, a game so bad that it almost killed the industry.
explanation: Warshaw's career as a video game developer is most remembered for game adaptation of E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial, a notoriously bad game that was a major factor in the 1983 video game crash from which the industry took several years to recover. more…
intended difficulty: medium
solved by: Russ Wilhelm, Steve West, LaVonne Lemler, Samir Mehta, Chris Lemler, Denise Sawicki, and Erik Bates
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