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 games in North America, the company decided to dump its excess merchandize into a landfill, according to reports at the time.
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