Canadian-based Fuel Entertainment will search a former landfill site in New Mexico where several million unsold copies of Atari’s disastrous E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial were reportedly crushed and buried, the studio has confirmed to the BBC.
KRQE reports Fuel Entertainment struck a deal with Alamogordo’s City Commission to excavate the site in order to create a documentary surrounding the burial legend.
Fuel Entertainment is finalising funding for the project and has six months to carry out the search.
The notorious E.T. was released for Christmas 1982. Atari produced millions of the cartridges, but severely over-estimating demand (combined with the fact the game was awful) left the company with millions of copies of a game nobody wanted.
It’s alleged that in September 1983 Atari dumped millions of unsold E.T. cartridges at an Alamogordo, New Mexico landfill site, crushed them, and buried them under concrete.
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