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The Atari video game burial was a mass burial of unsold video game cartridges, consoles, and computers in a New Mexico landfill site undertaken by the American video game and home computer company Atari, Inc. in 1983. Before 2014, the goods buried were rumored to be unsold copies of E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982), one of the largest ...
Oct 23, 2024 · Atari E.T. Dig: Alamogordo, New Mexico, CC BY-NC-SA 2.0. The legend was true, though not quite as dramatic as people had imagined. It wasn't millions of cartridges, but there were loads of them. Atari executive James Heller, who had overseen the original burial said that only about 728,000 cartridges had been buried back in 1982.
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Video games based on movies were a big thing back in the ’80s. A successful and super playable Raiders Of The Lost Arkgame had been released, made by young designer Howard Scott Warshaw. So when Spielberg’s E.T.captured the world’s imagination in 1982, Warshaw was the natural choice to put the character on the console map. One slight snag — he only...
They did. But their experience was a frustrating one. Warshaw told the BBCthere were “too many opportunities where you could suddenly wind up in an odd situation.” It wasn’t unusual for E.T. to get stuck in a pit. For some, “Game Over” had never seemed so lowkey and disappointing. Presented as a must-have Christmas gift, E.T.the cartridge didn’t li...
Thirteen trucks, an unlucky number indeed, were sent to Alamogordo city, New Mexico. Laden with cartridges, they dumped their load in the ground and covered it over. Over time, a legend grew that all the unsold copies of E.T.had ended their days at the location. Apparently, the alien paid the ultimate price for screwing up Atari’s moolah-making moj...
2014 saw the dump at Alamogordo dug up in an attempt to find the unwanted — and now really quite valuable — cartridges. Hollywood screenwriter Zak Penn (X-Men) was present with a film crew. He directed the documentary Atari: Game Over, which looked at problems in the industry and, of course, the infamous entombment of E.T. While hundreds of thousan...
E.T.for Atari is regularly described as an awful game, possibly the planet’s worst. Yet this reputation doesn’t seem deserved. People are looking at the product through a fog of gaming fury. For Warshaw, E.T. and Pac-Man for the Atari 2600 changed consumers’ approach to major releases. Speaking to Wired, he said they “demonstrated in two big wallop...
There’s no denying the burial was a big-time corporate offload. However, it also resulted in a mighty profit down the line. The glowing-fingered hero may have had the last laugh. A recovered E.T.cartridge went under the hammer on eBay for $1,535. More from us: The 2021 Titanic Has Proven Icebergs Really Hate Ships Named Titanic All in all, around 1...
In 1983, rumors circulated: Atari was bankrupt, and was dumping truckloads of games into a New Mexico landfill. Victim to the "Video Game Crash," the company buried 700,000 cartridges in the desert. The story became an obscure pop culture legend -- until "The Atari Tomb" was unearthed in 2014. This document captures the history of the world's first video game excavation.
Mar 25, 2001 · The first signs of the goose's fatal illness came with Atari's Pac-Man cartridge. Atari was so sure its home version of the world's most popular arcade game would reach new sales heights that it ...
Dec 14, 2015 · On April 26, 2014, the Atari burial was confirmed when hundreds of cartridges were dug up out of the ground. It turns out the legend was true, there really were a bunch of unsold E.T. games buried in the desert. According to a former manager of Atari, “728,000 cartridges of various titles were buried”.
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Apr 26, 2024 · April 26, 2014. As part of the filming of the documentary, Atari: Game Over, a team of archaeologists at a landfill in Alamogordo, New Mexico uncover the site of an estimated 700,000 Atari 2600 cartridges buried in 1983, including copies of E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, one of the most famous commercial failures in video game history. Since 1983 ...
