{"id":63783,"date":"2014-04-27T10:04:39","date_gmt":"2014-04-27T08:04:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=63783"},"modified":"2014-04-27T10:11:27","modified_gmt":"2014-04-27T08:11:27","slug":"the-atari-e-t-landfill-legend-is-true","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/63783-the-atari-e-t-landfill-legend-is-true","title":{"rendered":"The Atari E.T. landfill legend is true"},"content":{"rendered":"

Does the\u00a0E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial video game burial site really exist?\u00a0 Yes. Yes it does – though the extent of it remains to be seen.<\/p>\n

Filming as part of documentary series, Fuel Entertainment and\u00a0Xbox Entertainment Studios have unearthed – and confirmed the existence of – hundreds of copies of the E.T. game in a landfill in the small New Mexico town of\u00a0Alamogordo.<\/p>\n

The companies have started their excavation of the site, where legends say millions of unsold E.T. video game cartridges and Atari consoles still lay buried.<\/p>\n

The first batch of E.T. games was discovered under layers of trash after about three hours of digging, a Microsoft spokeswoman told Reuters – but exact numbers couldn’t be confirmed.<\/p>\n

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Atari ET uncovered<\/p><\/div>\n

The legend goes that the Atari Corporation disposed of the E.T. cartridges after the game received an overwhelmingly negative response from gamers and critics.<\/p>\n

E.T.\u00a0 has since been credited with irreparably damaging Atari – and almost killing the entire US gaming industry. Ouch.<\/p>\n

These claims, as well as the extent of the disposal, will ultimately be covered by the documentary, which aims to “reveal the true story of Atari\u2019s bizarre burial”. <\/span><\/p>\n