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- Only a small fraction, about 1,300 cartridges, were recovered, with a portion given for curation and the rest auctioned to raise money for a museum to commemorate the burial.
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On April 26, 2014, the excavation revealed discarded games and hardware. Only a small fraction, about 1,300 cartridges, were recovered, with a portion given for curation and the rest auctioned to raise money for a museum to commemorate the burial.
Mar 25, 2001 · 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.
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...
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Apr 27, 2014 · “E.T.” cartridges were just one of more than 20 titles found over the weekend, and may not make up more than a fifth of the estimated 700,000-plus units the ailing Atari discarded in 1983, he...
Apr 26, 2014 · A New York Times article from Sept. 28, 1983, says 14 truckloads of discarded game cartridges and computer equipment were dumped on the site. An Atari spokesman quoted in the story said the...
Apr 26, 2014 · 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 archaeologists recovered the proof.
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IGN awarded it a score of 7.1 out of 10, saying "Short, funny and to the point, Atari: Game Over tells the story of E.T. the game with heart and wit." [9] Eurogamer called it "one of the best films about gaming this year and should be seen by anyone with an interest in the medium's early wild west years." [10]
