E.T. has been found in New Mexico

[TigerClaw]

The Urban Legend about Atari burying copies of ET on the Atari 2600 has finally come true, They managed to dig through the Landfill in New Mexico and they found a bunch of copies.
http://kotaku.com/e-t-found-in-new-m...ill-1568100161

[electric_sheep]

Holly crap, this changes everything. Imagine what else can be true...

[xChri5x]

ALIENS!

[sdp]

I always thought this was just an Urban legend, I don't know why so many people always "discovered" this trivia recently, I read about it in magazines as a kid in the 90s and all the time it was mentioned on gaming websites and X-Play and other things in the early 2000's. Kind of sad the Urban legend was uncovered though since it made for a fun imaginary situation, in fact the AVGN movie is based on the myth alone and it's kind of ruined now, some things are better off as a mystery.

I'm also surprised no one ever discovered it before, apparently there's plenty of documents for permissions about it. With how obsessive some people are I'm surprised some community or person didn't do this years ago.

[Ninjinister]

When was this ever an urban legend? I'm pretty sure it was confirmed before any of you blokes were born.

[TigerClaw]

They are also shooting a Documentary about this.

[Peanut]

Originally Posted by Ninjinister

When was this ever an urban legend? I'm pretty sure it was confirmed before any of you blokes were born.

It's been up and down since the rise of the Internet. There were some high profile people in the industry, older ones, who were scoffing at the chances of anything being found right before all of this was going on. So, yes, it's been turned into an urban legend in the last decade at least.

[AT-Man]

I wanna hear AVGN's opinion about this.

[Refractive Reflections]

I'd still like to know, from a business perspective, why all those cartridges were all sent to New Mexico and buried there, rather than just cheaply dumping it at the local landfill. Unless the company was that desperate to hide the eyesore of so many unsold cartridges to protect their company's image.

[shuriken]

^^ The second one. The game was that bad.

[ObiWanFan4life]

Originally Posted by shuriken

^^ The second one. The game was that bad.

^ The game was bad, but not THAT bad. Now they have room for Ride to Hell retribution.

[Peanut]

Originally Posted by Refractive Reflections

I'd still like to know, from a business perspective, why all those cartridges were all sent to New Mexico and buried there, rather than just cheaply dumping it at the local landfill. Unless the company was that desperate to hide the eyesore of so many unsold cartridges to protect their company's image.

It WAS a landfill. It was chosen because they crushed their stuff before burying it and didn't allow picking. They buried it because they wanted to make sure people didn't know they were burying brand new stock, like you said, to protect their image. The reason there wasn't more put on top of it was because the well publicized dumping pissed off locals and made the town pass some laws that stopped dumping there.

None of it had anything to do with how bad the games were. Though their lack of quality, and especially the ridiculous amount of copies manufactured, led to the entire thing.

[Whatswiththeheadbands?]

I wonder what they are going to do with the copies they found.

[turtle1237]

Had a feeling it was fact, I really wanted to belive that they dump that game in a landfill in NM. But now we can rest at ease knowing its fact lol.

[snake]

This is hilarious!

[Candy Kappa]

I wonder if any of the more better preserved cartridges are playable?

As playable as the game was of course.

[electric_sheep]

Originally Posted by whatswiththeheadbands?

I wonder what they are going to do with the copies they found.

Probably put them in a museum, couple of them atleast. If anyone manages to get ahold of one of them he could sell them for a big price.

[ObiWanFan4life]

Originally Posted by electric_sheep

Probably put them in a museum, couple of them atleast. If anyone manages to get ahold of one of them he could sell them for a big price.

Who would want them? Why would they want with them?

[electric_sheep]

Originally Posted by ObiWanFan4life

Who would want them? Why would they want with them?

It's a myth came to life it's one of the greatest video game legends. Someone's probably wa,nting one for their colection...

[The Stryker]

What will idiots who try to sound like insiders talk about now?!

God help us if a study comes out saying that Superman 64 is NOT "The worst game ever OMG you guys".