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Diggers find Atari's E.T. games in landfill
Posted on 4/26/14 at 4:01 pm
Posted on 4/26/14 at 4:01 pm
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A documentary film production company has found buried in a New Mexico landfill hundreds of the Atari "E.T." game cartridges that some call the worst video game ever made.
Film director Zak Penn showed one "E.T." cartridge retrieved from the dumpsite and says there are hundreds more mixed in the mounds of trash and dirt scooped by a backhoe.
Fuel Entertainment is producing a documentary about the search.
The video game's commercial failure was partially responsible for the demise of Atari in the early 1980s.
The contents of the "Atari Grave" have become urban legend, with blog posts speculating about millions of cartridges and other Atari projects buried there. A spokeswoman for Atari says the company changed hands many times since 1983 and does not know what is buried there.
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Posted on 4/26/14 at 4:03 pm to East Coast Band
That's Yar's Revenge.
Not E.T.
Not E.T.
Posted on 4/26/14 at 4:04 pm to East Coast Band
That's not ET that he's holding. It's Yar's Revenge in that picture. It was one if the most awesome Atari games ever.
Posted on 4/26/14 at 4:04 pm to East Coast Band
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This post was edited on 5/3/14 at 10:34 am
Posted on 4/26/14 at 4:04 pm to East Coast Band
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some call the worst video game ever made.
I had the game and I can vouch for this!
Posted on 4/26/14 at 4:05 pm to lsu480
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I had the game and I can vouch for this!
Same. It was terrible.
Posted on 4/26/14 at 4:06 pm to East Coast Band
ET did suck and the company did drop the reserves that didnt sell in a land fill, but that's not ET.
Posted on 4/26/14 at 4:07 pm to Darth_Vader
I guess he didn't want his photo with the worst game.
And it suck.
More photos:
And it suck.
More photos:
Posted on 4/26/14 at 4:07 pm to East Coast Band
For the "That's not ET people." Here you go.
This post was edited on 4/26/14 at 4:09 pm
Posted on 4/26/14 at 4:08 pm to SG_Geaux
Why go to all this trouble?
Posted on 4/26/14 at 4:09 pm to HailToTheChiz
They are making a documentary.
ET is also known as the game that almost killed the video game industry.
ET is called the game that started Atari's downward spiral. In reality there was a lot of crap that contributed.
ET is also known as the game that almost killed the video game industry.
ET is called the game that started Atari's downward spiral. In reality there was a lot of crap that contributed.
This post was edited on 4/26/14 at 4:14 pm
Posted on 4/26/14 at 4:11 pm to HailToTheChiz
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Why go to all this trouble?
What are they going to say when they find it where they knew it was buried? "Yep, still worthless crap."
Posted on 4/26/14 at 4:11 pm to East Coast Band
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A spokeswoman for Atari says the company changed hands many times since 1983 and does not know what is buried there.
Translation if y'all find the body of some secretary/mistress that worked for Atari in the 80s and went missing, we got no clue how it ended up there.
Posted on 4/26/14 at 4:17 pm to jacks40
Posted on 4/26/14 at 4:19 pm to SG_Geaux
That brings back memories. I never figured out what I was supposed to do in that game. I'd wander around for 5 mins and throw Combat back in.
Posted on 4/26/14 at 4:21 pm to East Coast Band
I'd bet that most of the OT is too young to know the horrors of this game.
They're digging them up so they can burn them to prevent them from ever being played, like Atari should have done in the first place.
The pits. Oh God, the pits!
They're digging them up so they can burn them to prevent them from ever being played, like Atari should have done in the first place.
The pits. Oh God, the pits!
Posted on 4/26/14 at 4:22 pm to East Coast Band
These games were buried in a landfill for 30+ years, Why are the games, paper work, and packages in such good shape? 
Posted on 4/26/14 at 4:22 pm to SG_Geaux
I had forgot how truly horrid that game was.
Posted on 4/26/14 at 4:22 pm to SG_Geaux
whoa that is shite.
Posted on 4/26/14 at 4:25 pm to Relham10
Probably buried with the shrink wrap attached. That game was horrible.
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