Atari ET cartridges from 1982 unearthed in landfill

David Pescovitz 11:10 am Mon Apr 28, 2014

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Remember the vidgame industry legend that in 1983 Atari dumped its stock of the "E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial" game cartridges in a New Mexico landfill? Well, a pile of what's considered one of the crappiest vidgames in history has been unearthed. And the game's designer Howard Scott Warshaw, now a psychotherapist, was on hand.

"I've been carrying this thing, the theoretically worst video game of all time, for 30 years now," Warshaw said. "It was a game that was done in five weeks. It was a very brief development. I did the best that I could, and that's OK."

"Searchers unearth grave of "E.T.," the video game Atari wanted us to forget" (CNN)

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