"What was often scoffed at as an urban legend has been revealed as truth: excavators have uncovered the infamous E.T. Atari cartridge landfill in a New Mexico desert.
The dig was organized by Canadian entertainment company Fuel Industries in order to film a documentary about the 1983 burial of purportedly millions of unsold Atari cartridges. The excavation was officially approved by the Alamogordo City Commission and started today.
Xbox's Major Nelson, along with other onlookers have tweeted out pictures of the excavation team holding these cartridges. Some of these are reportedly shrink-wrapped, complete-in-box copies of E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, which is often considered one of the biggest commercial failures in the history of gaming." - Patrick Kulikowski
Skewed and Reviewed have posted a video showing what Atari had on display at PAX East 2024.
While managing the games department at Lagoon Amusement Park in the 60s, a young college student named Nolan Bushnell had an idea. Instead of managing and maintaining other vendor’s games, why not start a company and produce his own?
Collectors and game fans should love this. Atari 50th Anniversary Soundtrack Revealed. This milestone marks the inaugural official soundtrack gathering several titles from ATARI since 1983.
There is no telling what unholy curse these fools have brought upon us all.
Did they find million of copies or just a few? ? I'm looking for the information but I can't find anything useful :/
Wow after all this time
I sometimes still play this game on Atari for kicks lol
They've doomed us all.
I wonder if they'll all die like those who dug up Tutankhamen?
They dug it up so later they can dump all the unsold copies of Kinect Sports Rivals.