Copies of Atari's infamous E.T., plus other Atari games dug up from a New Mexico landfill, have fetched $100,000 at auction...
Earlier this year, Zak Penn's documentary Atari: Game Over charted the rise and fall of what was once briefly the biggest videogame company in the world. More specifically, it also dug into a one of the great myths of the nascent medium: that tie-in videogame E.T: The Extra-Terrestrial was so badly-received, and sold so poorly, that Atari was forced to bury millions of unwanted cartridges in the New Mexico desert.
Incredibly, the legend turned out to be true. The documentary captured the moment when, as dozens of curious onlookers gathered, a group of diggers led by Joe Lewandowski uncovered the first few E.T. cartridges at the Alamogordo landfill. As well as E.T., many other Atari 2600 games were discovered too, including copies of Asteroids, Defender, Missile Command and Centipede.
Earlier this year, Zak Penn's documentary Atari: Game Over charted the rise and fall of what was once briefly the biggest videogame company in the world. More specifically, it also dug into a one of the great myths of the nascent medium: that tie-in videogame E.T: The Extra-Terrestrial was so badly-received, and sold so poorly, that Atari was forced to bury millions of unwanted cartridges in the New Mexico desert.
Incredibly, the legend turned out to be true. The documentary captured the moment when, as dozens of curious onlookers gathered, a group of diggers led by Joe Lewandowski uncovered the first few E.T. cartridges at the Alamogordo landfill. As well as E.T., many other Atari 2600 games were discovered too, including copies of Asteroids, Defender, Missile Command and Centipede.
- 9/1/2015
- by ryanlambie
- Den of Geek
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