This past week on Dead On the Bases on episode Dead On the Bases – Season 5 Inning 7 / The Entity vs. The Fan, we reviewed the horror film, The Entity (1982). This film is known, primarily, as the movie about a ghost repeatedly raping the character a young Barbara Hershey portrayed.

Kind of icky.

Some genius thought “Hey, this would make a great Atari 2600 game tie-in!” This was back before electronic gaming was truly mainstream and had a heavy demographic bend to boys. What were they thinking?

As many video games were at the time, it was an abstract representation of the film (see the 2600 version of ET or Raider of the Lost Ark and you will see the amount of imagination required to enjoy these games). However, the process of gameplay (portrayed and called out in the video above) is suspect at best…enough so that I wonder if the maniacs behind Custer’s Last Stand might have had a hand in it. I’m not saying I could have come out with a good game for this…this was a terrible idea to start with…but this wasn’t a good idea either.

I guess they all can’t be Yars Revenge or my beloved, Tunnel Runner.

Now, that might be a good future column.

Tim Kretschmann is the host of Dead On Movie Reviews, Now Streaming, and Dead On the Bases. He is also a columnist on OtherworldlyCulture with the column Universally Loved.