WebApr 26, 2014 · 119. ALAMOGORDO, NM—The legend was true. Atari really did dump a bunch of E.T. and other Atari 2600 cartridges and paraphernalia into a landfill 30 years ago. Today, a team of video game ... The Atari video game burial was a mass burial of unsold video game cartridges, consoles, and computers in a New Mexico landfill site, undertaken by the American video game and home computer company Atari, Inc. in 1983. Before 2014, the goods buried were rumored to be unsold copies of E.T. the Extra … See more Financial difficulty Atari, Inc. had been purchased by Warner Communications in 1976 for $28 million, and had seen its net worth grow to $2 billion by 1982. By this time, the company accounted for 80% … See more On May 28, 2013, the Alamogordo City Commission granted Fuel Industries, a Canadian entertainment company, six months of access to the landfill to film a documentary, Atari: Game Over, about the burial and to excavate the dump site. Xbox Entertainment … See more • Media related to Atari video game burial at Wikimedia Commons See more In September 1983, the Alamogordo Daily News of Alamogordo, New Mexico reported in a series of articles, that between 10 and 20 semi-trailer truckloads of Atari boxes, cartridges, and … See more • 1980s portal • List of commercial failures in video games • Second generation of video game consoles See more
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WebNov 20, 2014 · Atari: Game Over: Directed by Zak Penn. With Zak Penn, Joe Lewandowski, Robert Rentschler, Paul Sanchez. A crew digs up all of the old Atari 2600 game cartridges of "E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial" that … WebNov 5, 2014 · The city of Alamogordo, New Mexico — where thousands of Atari items were dumped and buried in 1983 — is now selling copies of E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, Asteroids, Defender and other classic ... future mrs and mrs
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WebApr 25, 2014 · In 1982, it released ET: the Extra Terrestrial, for the Atari 2600 console, after buying the rights from director Steven Spielberg and Universal for $22m. It was a bold move into a new … WebApr 28, 2014 · Documentary producers on Saturday unearthed thousands of game cartridges of Atari's infamous E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial video game that were buried … WebApr 27, 2014 · Zak with E.T. box. ALAMOGORDO, NM -- Buried in the old landfill here since 1983, thousands of Atari E.T. game cartridges are hidden no more. Saturday, after months of waiting for the day to come ... future multibagger stocks screener