On Saturday (April 26), diggers working for a documentary film production company unearthed a cache of «E.T. the Extra Terrestrial» Atari 2600
game cartridges buried in a landfill in New Mexico.
Not exact matches
The Atari Corporation — faced with overwhelmingly negative response to the «E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial» video
game — allegedly disposed of millions of unsold
game cartridges by
burying them in the small town of Alamogordo, New Mexico in 1983.
Outside of a small handful of
games that turned out better then they had any right to be, the rest are rightly considered garbage, going all the way back to the landfill where they
buried so many E.T.
cartridges.
In December 2013, Xbox Entertainment Studios and Fuel Entertainment announced a partnership to produce a documentary about the recovery of Atari's long
buried cache of E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
game cartridges.