End to the urban legend of the E.T. video game

[_Neptunno_]

**In December 1982, Atari launched E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial for sale, a video game for the Atari 2600 home console developed in just 4 weeks. In it, you controlled the mythical alien in a series of levels in search of finding the pieces of an interplanetary phone to be able to communicate with his extraterrestrial counterparts. Atari believed that the title was going to reap record sales thanks to the popularity of Steven Spielberg's film, but however the result was not the expected one and the video game was such a failure, that it has passed into posterity included in most lists of the worst video games in history, in addition to being one of the biggest economic setbacks in terms of sales that are remembered in the history of the industry.

After the hecatomb, legend had it that Atari had decided to bury millions of copies of this video game in a cold night of 1983 in the desert of Alamogordo, in New Mexico. And so the story has passed, as an urban legend neither confirmed nor denied, without knowing for sure the existence of those cartridges since there was never an official communication. Sources pointed out that their components had been recycled, others, that the executives of Atari were so furious that they decided to get rid of any hint of their multimillion-dollar losses. Today, April 26, 2014, those copies have been discovered by Microsoft, Lightbox and Fuel Entertainment, as sources linked to Redmond have announced via Twitter.

In addition, it seems that the alien title had some company underground, because those in charge of the excavation have also found copies of Centipede, another video game for the Atari 2600.**

Sources:
El Pais
Meristation

I didn't know this urban legend, although it seems to me somewhat rocambolesque :troll:, that is, perhaps this will make them get rid of those damned copies after 30 years, and on top of that sell them at a gold price :ugly::ugly:

[Fassou]

They say that soon they will release a documentary that captures the development of this rescue operation, but for now there are only two boxes of crushed cartridges, the visit of one of the creators of the game, and no information from any former executive of the defunct Atari.

I fear that soon we will find out about the purchase of the Atari brand by Microsoft and that it intends to recover it for bla, bla, marketing everywhere :facepalm:

I want photos of the thousands of cartridges that they say they have found, but already! ;D

Goodbye!

[ferelxyx]

The lost treasure of Atari in Alamogordo

[cobito]

An interesting story behind a brutal marketing campaign. I can't help but wonder if those who buried the games there did so with the idea of cashing in on it in the future, because it seems strange to me that they would get rid of the surplus stock in that way.

[Yorus]

Moreover, even though the cartridges can be reused in many cases, casing, PCB...

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[Fassou]

Let's see if this story, a thousand times used as a hook for jokes on April Fools' Day, and April Fool's Day, this time is going to be true <:(

Salu2! Jugones!

PD: it must be admitted that if you throw something in the landfill of a Mexican town, it's much better to say that you buried it in the desert

[whoololon]

Come on, and they said no, that it was nonsense, that it was cheaper for them to recycle them than to bury them...

...and the worst part of all...

...I also tried to play it...

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