Buried E.T. Cartridges Discovered by Archeologists (opens in new tab)

April 26, 2014 As part of the filming of the documentary, Atari: Game Over, a team of archaeologists at a landfill in Alamogordo, New Mexico uncover the site of an estimated 700,000 Atari 2600 cartridges buried in 1983, including copies of E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, one of the most famous commercial failures in video game history.… Buried E.T. Cartridges Discovered by Archeologists is original content of This Day in Tech History.