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I don't know how budgets worked back then (I think that was basically a one-person team on E.T.? Or 1 person per job, like sound, code, graphics?) and whether the movie studios were already aware how much money was in licenses and charged accordingly, so can't REALLY say.
But they had to pay *something* for the license., which could'a gone into something else.
I guess it's also a second point: Changing a movie so much for the game it isn't satisfying for fans anymore?