It’s been dubbed The Great Video Game Burial of 1983, but did Atari really toss millions of cartridges of its biggest flop: E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial? Chris Kohler is onsite to witness an excavation of the landfill to see if the joke’s really on us, and to talk with those involved with the project, including original game designer Howard Scott Warshaw.
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Excavating the Atari E.T. Video Game Burial Site-Game|Life-WIRED
Starring: Chris Kohler
Flyover footage by Luke Fitch/Altitude-FX (http://www.altitude-fx.com) and Luke T. Davis/Flytcam (http://flytcam.com)
2:11 hot chicks showed up??
They need a LJN burial site😂
Ready Player One is a terrible book and not well written, with the most ahallow of stereotypical depth.
I am curious if anybody played one of those games that was excavated and if it still worked?
They found a single cartridge?… They found nothing.
This game they forgot to destroy the digital version of it now everyone with a good emulator ca bring this crap back
Digital games were not a thing back then lmao
10 years
Avgn Movie was Good
Concord; hold my beer
They should send Suicide squad, concord and dustborn to that landfill that way after 41 years E.T can have some company
uuuhhh…
where are the “truckloads” of Atari games?
There was a single one.
they should of made it a big thing and teied to get everything! not just a few then stop.. so pointless!!
Lots of faces and talking!
yes but
how did joe know the exact spot?
Just left the museum in Alamogordo and learned all about this. Was so fascinating had no idea.
I have a copy, and of centipede.
3:38 nevermind the cartridge youre holding. what is that abominable chipstrap of a beard your face is holding.
Wouldn’t they have found piles of them?
What is it worth now ?
I’m looking at the ET game right now. It’s on display at Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, Michigan.