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The Times article did not specify the games being destroyed, but subsequent reports generally linked the story of the dumping to the well-known failure of E.T. [2] Additionally, the headline "City to Atari: 'E.T.' trash go home" in one edition of the Alamogordo News seems to imply some of the cartridges were E.T., but then follows with a humorous interpretation of E.T. meaning "Extra ...
Jun 4, 2013 · When news broke last week that a Canadian film crew plans to dig up millions of copies of Atari's E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial video game supposedly buried at a New Mexico landfill site, it kicked ...
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Mar 25, 2001 · 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 ...
Oct 23, 2024 · Did Atari really bury millions of cartridges in the desert, or was it just a myth? In April 2014, a documentary crew set out to find the truth. They excavated the landfill in Alamogordo and, sure enough, unearthed hundreds of copies of E.T. among other discarded Atari games. Some of the Atari remnants found at the dump.
May 31, 2013 · It also just had to find something to do with all those E.T. games. "The rumor is that Atari decided to deal with its oversupply by simply burying all of those extra cartridges in the Alamogordo ...
Apr 26, 2014 · ALAMOGORDO, NM—The legend was true. Atari really did dump a bunch of E.T. and other Atari 2600 cartridges and paraphernalia into a landfill 30 years ago. Today, a team of video game ...
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Sep 1, 2015 · A long-buried copy of the infamous Atari game "E.T." is worth more than $1,500. The desert city of Alamogordo, New Mexico, finally sold off its buried treasure of ancient Atari games, raking in ...
