It was dubbed by some the "worst ever" game and created an urban myth 30 years in the making. Now thousands of copies of Atari's infamous 1982 computer game "ET: The Extra-Terrestrial" have been dug up in a New Mexico landfill site. But how and why did they end up there? Xbox Live's Larry Hryb visited the search site.
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A film production team has found potentially "thousands" of copies of the infamous computer game "ET: The Extra-Terrestrial" in a landfill site in New Mexico. The game by Atari 2600 was released in 1982 but flopped, with some critics labelling it "the worst ever".
Xbox Live's Larry Hryb visited the search site. He told the Today programme that the games were dumped there by developers out of "shame".
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newtboysays...I recall a group in a music video doing the same thing a decade or more ago, digging up the dumped ET cartridges. Now the big question....WHY?
antsays...Why ask why? To see eif the urban legend is true.
*british
I recall a group in a music video doing the same thing a decade or more ago, digging up the dumped ET cartridges. Now the big question....WHY?
siftbotsays...Adding video to channels (British) - requested by ant.
newtboysays...Do we need to re-prove it every other decade though? ;-)
http://videosift.com/video/Music-Video-by-Wintergreen-the-Demise-of-the-ET-Videogame
Oh, I watched it again and see they probably faked it in the video, that didn't look like a land fill to me. This time was fo reals yo!
Why ask why? To see eif the urban legend is true.
*british
antjokingly says...Don't forget the upcoming AVGN movie too.
Do we need to re-prove it every other decade though? ;-)
http://videosift.com/video/Music-Video-by-Wintergreen-the-Demise-of-the-ET-Videogame
Oh, I watched it again and see they probably faked it in the video, that didn't look like a land fill to me. This time was fo reals yo!
siftbotsays...After a treasure trove of games discovered in a NM landfill. has been added as a related post - related requested by oritteropo on that post.
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