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Popular home personal computer company was established by Utahn Nolan Bushnell on this date in 1972. Video games soon ...

And, infamously, after Atari made the mistake of ordering 4 million copies of the game, many of them ended up in a New Mexico landfill. E.T. also almost killed the video game industry entirely.

Believe it or not, there's a lot more to the story of how Atari buried a bunch of E.T. cartridges in a New Mexico landfill, and the whole truth is just as wild.

June 1982 - E.T. The Extra-terrestrial And Atari Are On Top Of The World. In 1982, ... When the archeologists catalogued all the games, there were a bunch of E.T. cartridges, ...

One more game is planned for the program at a later date: Adventure. The legendary game did release on the Atari 2600, so we may get more popular games from the console in the future.. Limited ...

The Extra-Terrestrial for the Atari 2600 was a commercial flop and a gaming disaster. ... An E.T. video game cartridge found along with other discarded Atari games in a New Mexico landfill in 2013.

The games weren’t worth all that much in their own right, Rick Weis, who has collected some 2,000 cartridges for Atari 2600 games, said in an e-mail. They’re fairly common titles, most worth ...

A long-buried copy of the infamous Atari game "E.T." is worth more than $1,500. The desert city of Alamogordo, New Mexico, finally sold off its buried treasure of ancient Atari games, raking in ...

This led to Atari shutting down its El Paso, Texas, factory and having to get rid of roughly 700,000 unsold copies of games - and not just E.T. The cartridges were quietly disposed of in the ...