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Subject: ET: The Extra-Terrestrial : final closure
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popcap 28.04.14 - 04:19pm
Excavators have unearthed copies of ET: The Extra-Terrestrial, the game Atari famously buried in New Mexico landfill after an unsuccessful launch in 1982.
The discovery was captured by documentarians producing an exclusive series for Xbox Live and proves that the story, which has become games industry legend over the last 30 years, is very much true.
Xbox Live's Major Nelson was on hand and uploaded a number of photos of the cartridges being excavated to his Twitter page. * +
norega 28.04.14 - 04:40pm
They look to good a condition to have been in the ground for 30 years , I call Bulls**t on this ,even the cardboard boxes were still intact . now i know its a desert but even under 2 inch of sand there is moisture that would rot cardboard in no time at all and the label on the fron of the cartridge . they no doubt are there somewere but the ones show were planted . they are just to new looking * +
silverjx 28.04.14 - 04:47pm
It is real Norega i watched a video ....thats the best condition one, plenty are environmentally damaged and some looks like stored inside sealed plastic bags * +
guillium 28.04.14 - 04:53pm
Rumours are Microsoft will fill the hole with unsold Xbox Ones 
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spartan2 28.04.14 - 04:59pm
It's a semi arid desert though. Not a humid jungle. I bet several still work. Solid state for ya * +
silverjx 28.04.14 - 05:13pm
They did work....they had a console and tv set up already to try some * +
4juice 28.04.14 - 05:44pm
The myth was first mentioned in 2011. The weeks leading to it was blown all over the internet. It was dug out last wednesday. And the games does worked. People came with mobile televisions and their Ataris and played the game, dumped because the game is the worst production ever by the people making it. * +
norega 28.04.14 - 06:11pm
I watched it also . Never believe everything you see on the internet The cardboard would have rotted years ago . The actual games themselves would have been intact as they are plastic obviously . I pulled a ghost buster 2600 cartridge out of my parents lof that had been up there for about the same time and it had more damage so i call bulls*it on this one. * +
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