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- Though it was believed that millions of copies of E.T. were buried, Atari officials later verified the numbers to be around 700,000 cartridges of various games, including E.T. In 2014, Fuel Industries, Microsoft, and others worked with the New Mexico government to excavate the site as part of a documentary, Atari: Game Over.
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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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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”.
Around 1,300 of the approximately 700,000 games buried were unearthed. [3] The dig lasted for approximately three hours. Only a small number of games could be recovered, because the local authority of Alamogordo only allowed the dig to last for one day, and ordered the site to be closed by April 27. [4]
Apr 26, 2024 · It was reported that only about 1100 cartridges were uncovered as the majority were buried deeper than expected. Games found in the recovery included Yars’ Revenge, Star Raiders, Pac-Man, Space Invaders, Defender, Warlords, Centipede, and yes E.T.
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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 games...
