The ET landfill stash has been found!

[sprite75]

Score, I guess...

ALAMOGORDO, N.M. (AP) — A documentary film production company has found buried in a New Mexico landfill hundreds of the Atari "E.T." game cartridges that some call the worst video game ever made.

Film director Zak Penn showed one "E.T." cartridge retrieved from the site and said that hundreds more were found in the mounds of trash and dirt scooped by a backhoe.

About 200 residents and game enthusiasts gathered early Saturday in southeastern New Mexico to watch backhoes and bulldozers dig through the concrete-covered landfill in search of up to a million discarded copies of "E.T. The Extraterrestrial" that the game's maker wanted to hide forever.

"I feel pretty relieved and psyched that they actually got to see something," said Penn as members of the production team sifted through the mounds of trash, pulling out boxes, games and other Atari products.

[lester1/2jr]

I played that game. It's in the right place leave it there

[sprite75]

I played that game. It's in the right place leave it there

I got it for Christmas one year.

I tend to agree.

[Bushma]

Maybe they will find all the missing copies of the Star Wars Holiday Special there too.

[VenomX73]

[Andrew]

I remembered playing the game after reading a comment about it.  My memory matched the reviewer's experience, with was roughly "You fall in a hole, and spend an hour trying to get out.  Every time you start over same thing happens, until you get fed up with the game and throw it in the trash."

[VenomX73]

Yup... had it.



walk - fall in hole - raise neck to get out of hole - walk - fall in hole - raise neck to get out of hole - repeat.

[Trevor]

Maybe they will find all the missing copies of the Star Wars Holiday Special there too.

Leave THOSE there, please... 

[Trevor]

I remembered playing the game after reading a comment about it.  My memory matched the reviewer's experience, with was roughly "You fall in a hole, and spend an hour trying to get out.  Every time you start over same thing happens, until you get fed up with the game and throw it in the trash."

[Trevor]

Yup... had it.



walk - fall in hole - raise neck to get out of hole - walk - fall in hole - raise neck to get out of hole - repeat.

[Bushma]

I don't know about legalities, so I'm not going to link anything.  I just found an Atari emulator and the rom for this game.  I'm tempted to give it a shot.

[sprite75]

I don't know about legalities, so I'm not going to link anything.  I just found an Atari emulator and the rom for this game.  I'm tempted to give it a shot.

I think you'll find the game lives down to its reputation.

[zelmo73]

I don't know about legalities, so I'm not going to link anything.  I just found an Atari emulator and the rom for this game.  I'm tempted to give it a shot.

Don't do it. You can always get back lost money, but you can never get back lost time. I suggest watching the movie and drinking Drano instead if you want the same effect.

[Ed, Ego and Superego]

When they broke ground, there was a mighty wailing and the spirits of suck flew through the air like at the end of Raiders.

[Jim H]

I have it on cartridge.  It's both boring and extremely confusing.  Like a number of Atari games.  It's pretty bad.