Well, they found it. And by "it" I mean they found the buried cartridges. Lots of them.
A documentary film production company has found buried in a New Mexico landfill hundreds of the Atari "E.T." game cartridges that some call the worst video game ever made.
Film director Zak Penn showed one "E.T." cartridge retrieved from the site and said that hundreds more were found in the mounds of trash and dirt scooped by a backhoe.
About 200 residents and game enthusiasts gathered early Saturday in southeastern New Mexico to watch backhoes and bulldozers dig through the concrete-covered landfill in search of up to a million discarded copies of "E.T. The Extraterrestrial" that the game's maker wanted to hide forever.
Film director Zak Penn showed one "E.T." cartridge retrieved from the site and said that hundreds more were found in the mounds of trash and dirt scooped by a backhoe.
About 200 residents and game enthusiasts gathered early Saturday in southeastern New Mexico to watch backhoes and bulldozers dig through the concrete-covered landfill in search of up to a million discarded copies of "E.T. The Extraterrestrial" that the game's maker wanted to hide forever.
Honestly, I'm surprised they found anything. I'm even more surprised that they were the first ones to actually discover these buried cartridges after 30 years that somehow evaded everyone else in all that time.
(via the AP, Major Nelson, and many of the above images are from Chris Kohler)
Makes no sense.
Many believe that was the worst game EVER made. Thats pretty bad. Up there with the Superman game by Nintendo I think.
Even the guy in the second video mentioned ET.er
Oh, and at around 11:20, the angry gamer said that the truck game cant be a real game anyway