Monday, June 3, 2013

Film Crew Tries to Unearth Atari's 'E.T.' Game Graveyard

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Atari released a video game in 1982 that was such a commercial flop that the company buried the evidence in a New Mexican desert. But, since the past can never remain buried, a film crew now wants to dig up a stash of those ET The Extra-Terrestrial games, in an attempt to uncover gaming history.


According to Albuquerque, N.M., television station KRQE, film production company Fuel Industries has been granted six months of access to the Alamogordo, N.M., landfill where Atari dumped nine semi trucks worth of E.T. game cartridges and other merchandise in 1983


Fuel Industries, a multimedia marketing company, hopes to document the unearthing of the games, KRQE reported Read more...


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