"Alamogordo approves Atari excavation"

[krispos42]

[div class=excerpt style=background:#AFEEEE]Alamogordo approves Atari excavation
Landfill site of ET burial 30 years ago

Updated: Thursday, 30 May 2013, 7:04 AM MDT
Published : Thursday, 30 May 2013, 7:04 AM MDT

Alex Goldsmith

ALAMOGORDO, N.M. (KRQE) - 1982 brought a video game so bad it's credited with nearly taking down the entire industry.

The Atari 2600 version of the hit movie E.T. was so unplayable, millions of copies went unsold with millions more returned.

Legend has it Atari needed to dump the extra merchandise and extra consoles as the industry crashed in 1983.

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On Tuesday, Alamogordo's City Commission approved a deal with Canada-based film production and entertainment company Fuel Industries to excavate the Atari dump site and create a documentary surrounding the Alamogordo landfill legend.

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http://www.krqe.com/dpp/news/southeast/alamogordo-approves-atari-excavation

It's not dumpster-diving if you're wearing a lab coat?

[Aristus]

1. I've heard about the "E.T." video game dumping fiasco.

Seems like the plot of a bad movie. There are some people who should just not run businesses...