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  • E.T. unearthed: The dig for legendary Atari cartridges in pictures

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    Christopher Trout
    Christopher Trout
    04.27.2014

    Yesterday marked the climax of a decades-long story that surrounded one of the most poorly received video games in history. A Microsoft-backed documentary crew took to a landfill in the desert town of Alamogordo, New Mexico, in an attempt to prove that Atari had in fact buried thousands of E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial cartridges there. It appears they succeeded.