Lady Lilith Posted April 11, 2014 Share Posted April 11, 2014 http://kotaku.com/the-infamous-atari-landfill-dig-is-finally-happening-1561763028 RELATED Someone's Going to Dig Up Atari's Infamous New Mexico Landfill Alamogordo's city council has granted an excavation permit for the infamous landfill said to hold thousands of copies of E.T. and Pac-Man for… Read… Come April 26, 2014, one of gaming's greatest mysteries will finally be solved. Or maybe it will just be get even more convoluted and confusing. In either case, that is the official date Microsoft just announced for when someone is finally going to break ground on the infamous New Mexico landfill that's allegedly overflowing with discarded copies of the Atari 2600 games E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial and Pac-Man. RELATED How to Beat the Worst Video Game Ever Made While that's a subjective boast, has any other game been so terrible that copies of it were taken out into the middle of the desert and buried Read… As legend has it, Atari piled the unused cartridges into the landfill more than three decades ago following the colossal commercial failure of both titles.The company had paid through the nose to secure the rights to make a video game adaptation of E.T. The game that eventually came out of this licensing deal wasn't just terrible, however. It also had very little to do with Steven Spielberg's classic movie of the same name. As for Pac-Man? Well, the console version of the game sold around seven million copies but still left Atari with an extra five million gathering dust in its warehouse in El Paso, Texas. The mystery lies in what happened next. On April 26, 1989, Atari did bury a bunch of stuff in a landfill in Alamogordo, a city in south-central New Mexico. It has never confirmed if the thousands of unused cartridges were part (or all) of said stuff, however. P Late last year, the media company Fuel Entertainment got exclusive rights from the Alamogordo city council to go digging for the landfill. Now partnered with Microsoft's Xbox Entertainment Studios and LightBox Entertainment, Fuel is finally going to put all the conspiracy theories to the test. P What do you think the three are going to find down there? All the remaining E.T. copies that are still unspoken for? A time capsule that Atari co-founder Nolan Bushnell left to warn us all of the unspeakable atrocities that would unfold in the console wars to come? Walter White's leftover drug money? We only have a few more days to come up with the crackpot theory to end all crackpot theories, so let's get to work! 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarkStar83x Posted April 11, 2014 Share Posted April 11, 2014 Wonder what they'll find. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BooneJusticius Posted April 11, 2014 Share Posted April 11, 2014 Wonder what they'll find. Jimmy Hoffa. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ichiban-Hybrid Posted April 11, 2014 Share Posted April 11, 2014 Hmm.. now I wonder what would the AVGN say about this? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
acasser Posted April 11, 2014 Share Posted April 11, 2014 They can't find Jimmy Hoffa in Alamogordo -- he's buried under the endzones at MetLife Stadium here in scenic New Jersey. As for those cartridges, I believe I have one of each (Pac-Man, ET) gathering dust somewhere in my basement. At least I think the box with the old Atari 2600 and all the cartridges are still down there, but it's not like I've gone hunting for them anytime this decade. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr_Mayus Posted April 11, 2014 Share Posted April 11, 2014 Who here has actually played ET on a really Atari? When my buddy moved away he gave me his 2600 so I got a whole bunch of games (including ET). I didn't know anything about the game at the time so I was pretty excited to check it out...boy was I in for a shock Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wolvie_181 Posted April 11, 2014 Share Posted April 11, 2014 Wonder what they'll find. Kim Kardashian's brain. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dalez1658 Posted April 11, 2014 Share Posted April 11, 2014 Wonder what they'll find. A prototype version of the Xbox One. Who here has actually played ET on a really Atari? When my buddy moved away he gave me his 2600 so I got a whole bunch of games (including ET). I didn't know anything about the game at the time so I was pretty excited to check it out...boy was I in for a shock I don't think I've known a single person who owned an Atari that didn't have at least one copy of E.T. and Pac-Man, and they are both every bit as terrible as you've read, even by early 80's video game standards. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post BooneJusticius Posted April 11, 2014 Popular Post Share Posted April 11, 2014 Kim Kardashian's brain. Something has to exist first in order to be found lol. 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlueFireReaper Posted April 11, 2014 Share Posted April 11, 2014 Wonder what they'll find. Something that's going to make my day at the least. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mog Posted April 11, 2014 Share Posted April 11, 2014 Didn't AVGN do this for his movie? I swear i saw it one of his movie updates... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheVader66 Posted April 11, 2014 Share Posted April 11, 2014 (edited) Ever since I got my Atari 2600 back, I always wanted to get all the best known games for it including ET but not to play it dear god no, I ain't even letting it get near any of my other video games. Edited April 11, 2014 by TheVader66 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ProGamerX56 Posted April 11, 2014 Share Posted April 11, 2014 They'll find all the unsold copies of the game that KILLED gaming for a year before Nintendo revived it. Fuck ET. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr_Mayus Posted April 11, 2014 Share Posted April 11, 2014 This should have been the plot to Indy 4. That would have been hilarious Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheVader66 Posted April 11, 2014 Share Posted April 11, 2014 They'll find all the unsold copies of the game that KILLED gaming for a year before Nintendo revived it. Fuck ET. Exactly, it's because of E.T. that the Video Game Industry was dying for a short while and they also destroyed Atari's Pride but now i am thinking.......if they do find the steaming pile of crap knows as E.T. what are they going to do with them, well besides an Exorcism. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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