Unearthing
E.T.: A
Legendary Atari Mystery Finally Gets Closure
Are millions of
E.T. game cartridges for the
Atari 2600
really buried in a New Mexico landfill? That question will
Finally be answered on Saturday, as film and excavation crews gather to dig up one of the greatest video game stories of all time.
The story dates back to 1983, when
Atari dumped millions of unsold game cartridges and other
Atari hardware in a landfill in Alamogordo, New Mexico. Legend has it one of the games dumped in the landfill was
E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial. In fact, it may constitute the majority of the cartridges buried there.
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