Saturday, April 26, 2014

They finally found em....

FINALLY the urban myth of thousands of ET Atari cartridges buried in the desert has been confirmed according to an article via Kotaku 


"One of the most infamous urban legends in video games has turned out to be true. Digging in Alamogordo, New Mexico today, excavators discovered cartridges for the critically-panned Atari game E.T., buried in a landfill way back in 1983 after Atari couldn't figure out what else to do with their unsold copies. 


For decades, legend had it that Atari put millions of E.T. cartridges in the ground, though some skeptics have wondered whether such an extraordinary event actually happened. One of gaming's greatest mysteries will finally be solved. Or maybe it will just be get even more convoluted and confusing. 


Last year, Alamogordo officials finally approved an excavation of the infamous landfill, and plans kicked into motion two weeks ago, with Microsoft partnering up with a documentary team to dig into the dirt and film the results."

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