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E.T. ‘The Worst Video Game Ever Made’ Discovered In New Mexico Archaeological Dig

James. Updated April 28th, 2014

A documentary film production company has found buried in a New Mexico landfill hundreds of the Atari ET game cartridges that some call the worst video game ever made – reports The Guardian.

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 die-hard gamers gathered early Saturday in southeastern New Mexico to watch earth-moving equipment 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’ – adds The Daily Mail.

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Photograph: Juan Carlos Llorca/AP

 

The “Atari grave” was, until that moment, a highly debated tale among gaming enthusiasts and geeks for 30 years.

The story claimed that the video game company sent about a dozen truckloads of cartridges of what many call the worst video game ever to be forever hidden in a concrete-covered landfill in southeastern New Mexico.

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The search for the cartridges of a game that contributed to the demise of Atari will be featured in an upcoming documentary about the biggest video game company of the early ’80s.

As a backhoe scattered a huge scoop of 30-year-old trash and dirt over the sand, the film crew spotted boxes and booklets carrying the Atari logo. Soon after, a game cartridge turned up, then another and another.

According to Mashable –  the E.T. game was not just bad, but by most accounts, almost unplayable. How bad was it? Thankfully, some in the gaming community have uploaded footage (see below) of the game to show exactly how poor the experience was.