E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial

E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial headlines

• E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial landfill cartridges now on sale

  Remember how Alamogordo City Commission said it would auction off E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial cartridges dug up from the famous Atari landfill? You can buy one – if you’re feeling plump in the pocket.

• E.T. landfill documentary Atari: Game Over is out this November

  Atari: Game Over, the documentary that chronicles the demise of Atari as a video game publisher and how the E.T. video game had a hand in it.

• Here's the first trailer for E.T. landfill documentary Atari: Game Over

  Atari: Game Over, the documentary chronicling a garbage dump dig looking for old E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial cartridges, is out this fall and you can watch the first trailer below.

• You'll be able buy some of the uncovered E.T. cartridges soon

  Microsoft’s excavation of the landfill where hundreds of E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial cartridges were buried was a success, and to prove it, the city decided to offer some of them for sale.

• Atari: Game Over executive producer Jonathan Chinn talks about the infamous dig

  Microsoft has posted an interview with Atari: Game Over executive producer Jonathan Chinn, digging in the infamous Atari Graveyard in Alamogordo, New Mexico over the weekend. The team found E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial as well as old Atari joysticks and Atari 2600 titles like Ms. Pac-Man, Asteroids,and Space Invaders. Hit up the link for a read.

• UPDATE: See Microsoft dig up landfilled E.T. Atari cartridges - video

  Today is the day that some enterprising folks are visiting that landfill in New Mexico where legend says millions of Atari E.T. game cartridges were buried after the game flopped and the video game market crashed in 1982. And according to photos taken by a few tweeters at the dig, at least one E.T. cartridge […]

• Microsoft invite you to attend the Atari Landfill excavation on April 26

  Microsoft has invited the public to attend the Atari Landfill excavation where a team will search for buried E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial video game rumored to be buried in New Mexico.

• Atari graveyard dig gets the green light from New Mexico authorities

  The New Mexico Environment Department has given the go-ahead for a proposed excavation of a landfill site where truckloads of Atari cartridges are rumoured to be buried.

• Atari Graveyard dig to proceed once NMED concerns are addressed

  LightBox Interactive has said its excavation of the “Atari Graveyard” in New Mexico, also known as the “Atari Dump”, will continue as planned once environmental concerns are addressed.

• E.T. landfill documentary will kick off new Xbox TV series in 2014

  Microsoft has announced a new series of shows looking at the rise of the digital age, starting with a documentary on the hunt for land-filled copies of Atari 2600 mega-flop E.T. The Extra Terrestrial.

• Clueless Gamer Conan O'Brien tries his hand at Atari 2600's E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial

  It was bound to happen eventually: Clueless Gamer Conan O’Brien has filmed his session with a game always on one of those “Worst Games of All Time” lists, and one which even has its own purported landfill. That’s right. Conan’s latest segment on games is the Atari 2600’s E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial. See how he fared […]

• Atari's E.T. cartridge graveyard to be excavated by Canadian developer Fuel Industries

  Fuel Industries, a Canadian game developer, has been given a permit from the city of Alamogordo, New Mexico, to excavate the landfill where Atari reportedly buried many, many copies of E.T. and other broken or unsalable merchandise back in 1983.