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Finding ‘E.T.’ in the desert

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May

2014

The meeting, officially, didnt have anything to do with Atari. It was a meet and greet in 2011 between members of marketing agency Fuel Industries and a group of consultants. Fuel CEO Mike Burns does a lot of these. When Burns heard that one of the consultants worked for Universal in the 80s and helped […]

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Engadget Podcast 395 – 5.2.14

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May

2014

Urban legend confirmed. Atari did dump a pile of its E.T. game cartridges into a landfill in New Mexico and its thanks to Microsofts recent documentary efforts that weve gotten some closure. This leads your hosts to ponder the situation that led up to the cast off games and what it meant for Atari at […]

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The true story of the worst video game in history

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May

2014

E.T. was the death of Atari. If you believe the urban legend, then that game, based on Steven Spielbergs blockbuster movie, is the sole reason Atari flopped in the 1980s. As the myth went, the company, allegedly so ashamed of the game, decided to bury millions of unsold cartridges in the New Mexico desert and […]

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