Three New Official Atari 2600 Cartridges Are Coming ... see how the legendary designer "killed an industry" that was already heading into a death spiral when he had to create ET in just five ...

Michael McWhertor is a journalist with more than 17 years of experience covering video games, technology, movies, TV, and entertainment. The dirty, crushed and crumpled Atari 2600 cartridges that ...

Turns out Atari did indeed bury hundreds of vintage “E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial” video game cartridges underneath the ground in New Mexico more than three decades ago.

Zak Penn, director of "Atari: Game Over," and Andrew Reinhard, archaeologist, hold up Atari 2600 "E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial" game cartridges. (Microsoft) About ...

Copies of the Atari 2600 cartridge game ET, the Extra-Terrestrial have been discovered at a landfill dig, which seemingly confirms an urban legend. The discovery appears to prove that Atari dumped ...

Excavators have found copies of the 1982 Atari 2600 cartridge E.T.The Extra-Terrestrial — a notorious flop blamed for console gaming’s collapse a year later — in a dig at an Alamagordo, N.M ...

“E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial” cartridges unearthed from the legendary Atari dump are selling for more than $600 on eBay, far more than their selling price back in the day.

According to a Smithsonian blog post, a battered copy of the Atari 2600 game E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial will join Atari founder Nolan Bushnell’s Pong arcade cabinet and recently deceased Ralph ...

Box included. eBay "E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial" came out in 1983 for the Atari 2600, and was a total flop.

An Atari 2600 (also known as VCS) cartridge with the game "E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial." This cartridge was excavated from the landfill at Alamagordo, New Mexico on April 26, 2014. Atari buried ...

The never-ending saga of the Atari 2600 E.T. cartridges that were famously buried (and later unearthed) in Alamogordo, New Mexico continues to benefit the small town. Last November, a selection of ...

Before the infamous crash of console gaming in the early 1980s, third-party cartridge development was somewhat a wild-west affair. Development costs were negligible compared to present times and ...