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The Atari Landfill Myth - Gaming Historian

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Norman Caruso investigates the truth behind the legendary Atari landfill in Alamogordo, New Mexico, and the burial of E.T. cartridges.

Gaming Historian tackles the Atari landfill myth. Recently, the Atari landfill was uncovered in Alamogordo, New Mexico. Back in 1983, Atari cleared out their El Paso, TX plant and dumped a bunch of their product into a landfill. The actual dumping of product is not legend, Atari even admitted they did it back in 1983. The real legend was that they dumped nothing but ET cartridges. This excavation proved it was exactly what Atari said it was over 30 years ago. ► New viewer? Subscribe! goo.gl/WCIhMQ ► Facebook & Twitter: facebook.com/gaminghistorian twitter.com/gaminghistorian ► Questions / Comments? thegaminghistorian.com For more detailed information, check out the book "Atari Inc.: Business is Fun" by Marty Goldberg and Curt Vandel. All background music by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Excavation footage courtesy of IGN.com Thumbnail image via Taylor Hatmaker (readwrite.com/2014/04/28/atari-et-dig-alamogordo-game-list#f…)

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On “E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial(1982) Atari 2600 Source Code”

Also take a look at this page where some guy fixed the game to actually make it playable, pretty interesting i think. Also this whole frenzy over the landfill is pretty lame, all they confirmed is what Atari said they did 30 years ago, Norman Curuso did a little youtube video on this yesterday to put to rest this myth, link to this video
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