Over 30 years Atari was rumored to have dumped tens of thousands of unsold "ET" game cartridges in a New Mexico landfill.

3 days ago, a team of excavators found the location of the cartridges https://www.google.com/search?q=+They+Found+The+ET+Dump+Site

I am wondering what James Rolfe is thinking right now, as he is in the middle of the production of a movie of the same theme !

The angry video game nerd (AVGN) is doing a movie that involves this history about the et cartridges. Are they the ones who found it? Cant be coincidence.

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Oh, I see you already mentioned James ;D

I owned a ET and rather enjoyed it. Don't know why so many consider it one of the worse games made. This topic was on another site and only me and the OP bothered acknowledging it. James is probably loving it as it makes for great material.

man, i went into this thread with my conspiracy hat on....i feel very disappointed now.=-(

I owned a ET and rather enjoyed it. Don't know why so many consider it one of the worse games made.

This is all happening in the town where I'm from, looks like I moved away 7 years too early :'(

I didn't know it was ever rumour - it's always been trivia, fact... All of a sudden it's been demoted to rumour or urban-legend to make the event more exciting...

Supposedly various Atari people have always denied it even after it didn't make sense to, but I've only heard of it as a bizarre fact, not a "legend".

I really liked the game when it came out, but I have to admit after playing it as an adult on an emulator that it was pretty terrible.

May just be nostalgia setting in for me. I always remember back to my childhood when I play it on emulators.

Last I looked, the "world record" for the game is 56 seconds to beat it.