Filmmakers Unearth Legendary Atari 'E.T. Video Game' Trove
A trove of Atari's E.T. The Extraterrestrial video game has at long last been unearthed. A documentary film production company dug the huge stash of game cartridges out of a landfill in Alamagordo, New Mexico on Saturday.
The tale of E.T., often hailed as the worst video game ever made, has long fascinated dedicated gamers and pop culture historians. Atari had released the game in 1982 after buying the rights to E.T. from director Steven Spielberg for $22 million. After it proved a failure in sales, reports emerged that the company had quietly dumped millions of unsold copies of the game into a city landfill somewhere and encased them in concrete. Two years later, Atari was out of business and the American video game industry had fallen on hard times.
(Sources: The Associated Press, Rolling Stone)
