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Microsoft’s E.T. game excavation hits paydirt

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Apr

2014

It looks like the legend might be true after all. Microsoft has uncovered intact copies of E.T. for the Atari 2600 at a New Mexico landfill, supporting claims that Atari buried legions of unsold cartridges in the desert after the movie-themed game proved to be a massive failure. With that said, its not yet clear […]

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Construction workers unearth legendary cache of Atari games in New Mexico desert

27

Apr

2014

Construction crews today uncovered copies of the legendarily awful Atari 2600 game E.T. The Extra Terrestrial at a landfill in Almagordo, New Mexico. Back during the colossal video game industry crash of 1983, a struggling Atari was stuck with truckloads of the game and other unsold hardware. With little recourse and a crashing interest in video […]

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Microsoft cleared to exhume E.T. from landfill for original documentary

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Apr

2014

Microsofts been given the go-ahead to dig through a New Mexico landfill in the hunt for dumped copies of Atari 2600 title E.T., local media reports. Not without aim, of course, but so Xbox Entertainment Studios can collect crucial material for its first original documentary, whichll look into the alleged mass burial of unsold copies […]

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